﻿MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE^. 



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minent floriferous nodes, 2-3 lines apart. Tlie pyxidium (Plate LIX. figs. 9 & 13) is 

 l|-2 in. long; the calycary zone, 9-10 lines above the base, is 2-2^ in. in diam. ; the intei-. 

 zonal band is 4-5 lines high : the upper zone and operculum are If in. in diam., the 

 latter 6 lines high, depressed on the summit, without an umbonate point, which is seen 

 only on the unperfect fruit ; it is quite hollow within, with the traces of 4 evanescent 

 dissepiments, and furnished within its margin by a velarium which descends 4 lines 

 within the mouth ; the pericarp is 2 lines thick, showing inside the indications of the 

 withered dissepiments ; the 4 erect seeds are 1 inch long, 10 lines broad, yellowish, sub- 

 polished, marked with the veins of the raphe as in the foregoing species. The single 



seed in the abnormal fruits is similar in size and shape to the above, and is marked in the 

 same way. - ' . 



In a note attached to the specimen of the fruit. Spruce states that " when gathered it 

 had an exceedingly aromatic arillus, which the ants speedily devoured." We may pre- 

 sume this " arillus " covered the testa ; but no trace of it now exists. 



7. Chtteoma Spetjceana, nob. : LecytUs Spruceam, Berg (in parte) in Mart. Elor. Bras. 

 /. c. p. 487 : ramulis fusco-brunneis, subflexuosis, profunde et interrupte sulcatis, 

 obsolete verruculosis ; foliis ovatis, vel^ oblongo-ovatis, imo obtusis, et in petiolum 

 acutatis, apice obtusis et in acumen ssepe angustum longe cuspidato-mucronatum 

 subito constrictis, chartaceis, ad marginem revolutum et undulatum obsolete crenato- 

 serrulatis, supra opace sublucidis, minutissime granulatis, nervis tenuibus parallele 

 divergentibus et longe adscendentibus subimmersis, reticulatis, costa prominula, 

 subtus subochraceo-pallidioribus, opace pruinosis, nervis flavidis prominentibus, 

 venis prominulis, costa striolata prominente ; petiolo fusco, canaUculato, marginato, 

 ruguloso, limbo lOplo breviore : panicula terminali, pluriramosa ; rachi subflexuosa, 

 angulato-sulcata, verruculosa, prominente nodosa : pedicellis ad nodos alternos arti- 

 c atis, sulcatis ; sepalis ovatis, sub^qualibus, extus parallele striatis et granulatim 

 punetatis, marginibus erosuUs ; petalis obovatis, albis (siccis flavis), extus rugulosis ; 

 ovario infero, turbinate, 4-loculari, ovulis in quoque loculo 3, e basi distinctissime 

 erec is, vertice intra discum piano, radiatim striate ; stylo subulato, incurve, sepalis 



reviore: pyxidio subgloboso, medio zona calycari e sepalis 6 lineatim nexis cincto ; 

 int ^"^*f ^^^^^^^^ suberecta, subconvexa, diametri quintam partem alta ; zona superiore 

 ^^ gra ; operculo vittse altitudine, supra convexe, intus concave, vestigiis septorum 



gnaccum velario intra faucem descendente vitta dimidio breviore munito; 



Pencarpio subcrasso 



extus opace brunneo et ruguleso, intus 4-loculari 



dissert* ^ ' ^v^^^^^^cu, ualus opace orunneo ei ru^iuuou, ixxi^uc ^-xv/v.^«xx 



In Br"^r^ ^^^"^^^^^anaceis mox evanidis ; seminibus in quoque loculo 2, erectis. 

 rasUia : «?. s. in herh, variis, Panure, Bio TJahupes (Spruce, 2700) : San Carlos, 

 ^10 Negro (^^r«c^ 3695 ) 



Thi • 



Poriferous /^^ ^^^^^ ^^^* ^^^' growing on the margins of rivers, and bearing white 

 V. 1^9^ -^T^^ ' ^^^ ^^^^^ ^f tlie branchlets are 1 in. apart ; the leaves are 3J-5J in. 



^ and intermediate : in my specimen the panicle is 3i in. long, with 1 to 4 



