﻿230 MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTH1DACE.E 



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mediocre, vcl parviun, turbinatum^ supra vel circa medium zona calycari sublineari ciuctum; vitta 

 interzonali altitudine varia ; zona superiore orbieulari; operculo circulari, mox solubili et deciduo, 

 supra convexo et saepe umbonato, subtus valde concavOj sine columellse vestigioj dissepimentis sub* 

 membranaceis intus signato, cum velario intra marginem prope faucem paullo descendente munito; 

 pericarpio (operculoque) subtenuiter coriaeeo, 4-locularij dissepimentis membranaceis, ssepe persis- 

 tentibus, Semina in quoque loculo 1-3, sicca, ovata, rarius per pressionem obtuse angulata, utrinque 

 rotundata, levia, crecta^ hilo majusculo basali affixa ; testa Crustacea (ssepe arillo mucilaginoso tecta ?), 

 raphe ab hilo ad apicem faciei ventrali adscendente, valde compressa et loriformi, lateribus liberis, 

 nervo longitudinali solummodo ad testam adbsesa, cum ramis aliis longitudinalibus, ssepe furcatis, 

 elevatis siguata; integumentum internum membranaceum ; embryo conformis, exalbuminosus, homo- 



gcucus, fuscus, ceruo-carnosuSj amarus, neorhiza interna eocorhiza externa undique cincta sistens 

 (cotyledonibus nulli^ visibilibus). ^ 



A.v\)oi'c% frondosa America; M eridionalis ^ liabitu Lecyihidis. * 



1. Chytroma Sciiombl' 



Lecythis Schomhurgkii Berg, in Linn, xxvii. 456 



mmulis cincrco-brunneis, rugulosis, interrupte striato-snlcatis, cortice suLtrans- 

 versim rimoso, pruinosis, oTjsolete vcrruculosis ; foliis ovatis, utrinque rotundatis, 



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sacpc in acumen b r c v issimum abrupte canaliculatim recur vatis, rigide chartaceis, 

 luari^nTubus cartilagincis revolutis, int cgerr imis, supra Iccte vel pallida viridibus, 

 IflBvibus, subopacis, ncrvis tenuibus subimmersis, sub lente creberrime fovcolato- 

 icticulatis, coata subjjroniinula, subtus pallidioribus, opacis, costa nervisque pro- 

 minulis; pctiolo siipcrne piano, marginato, linibo 10-12plo breviore : racemis axilla- 

 ribus et torminalibus, folio subscquilongis, aut simplicibus vel pluribus congestis; 

 pcdicellis rccurvis, akbastro brcvioribus, sulcatis, pminosis ; sepalis obtuse oblongis, 

 extus granulosis, carinatis, pruinosis, marginibus late membranaceis, ciliolatis; 

 pctalis innoqualibus, obovato-oblougis, apice rotundatis, membranaceis ; ovario in- 

 Tto, iurbiuato, granuloso, 4-loculari, ovulis in quoque loculo 3, e basi erectis, vertice 

 intra discum valde concavo, radiatim striato; stylo tereti, sepalis dimidio breviore; 

 stigniatc par>'o, papillose : pyxidio cylindrico, subovato, longe supra medium zona 

 oalycari c sepalis dilatatis adpressis linea nexis cincto ; vitta interzonali subangusta, 

 fere verticali, diamctri 5tam partem alta ; zona superiore circulari, integra ; operculo 

 pulvinato valde deprcsso, supcrne late concavo, subtus concavo et 4-septato, sine 

 columella, cum velario intra faucem longius dcpendente, 4-loculari, dissepimentis 

 moniLrauaceis, persistentibus, loculis aequaHbus, singulis 2-spermis; pericarpio ligneo- 

 coriaceo, non crasso, rufesccnti-brunnco, areolis pallidis impressis granulosis macu- 

 lato; seminibus ovatis, angulato-compressis, imo erectim affixis, coUateralibus, fasco- 

 brunneis, rapbc loriformi ad angulum ventralem ab liilo basaU majusculo ad apicem 

 adacendente debinc itcrum in ramis elevatis descendentibus signato ; testa crassa, 

 coriacea, embryone immaturo submarcido, cornigato. In Guiana Brit. : v. pi 8. in 

 herb, mriis, Guiana {Schomb. 158, 792) ; v,Jr. sice, m Mm. Keio. (Schomb.). 

 The above fruit is marked "Scbomburgk" in Mr. Bentham's handwriting; and I 

 have no hesitation in referring it to this species rather than to Schomburgk's other 

 Guiana 5:pcciraon (C, chartacca), because of the peculiar hoUow summit of the oper- 

 <-'ulum, which agrees in this respect with the hollow vertex of the ovarium, quite an 



