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lateral branches 2 in. long and 4 lines apart; the nodules on which the pedicels are 

 articulated are ^ line long, 2-3 lines apart ; the pedicels 1 line , the sepals are 2 lines 

 long, 1 line broad ; the petals If in. long, 1 in. broad ; the androphorum is lln. in diam. ; 

 the flower expanded 4 in. across ; the erect ovules are distinctly fixed at the very base of 

 the axis in the ovary ; the immature pyxidium (Plate LIX. figs. 3, 4) is 1} in. high ; the 

 calycary zone is 1^ in. in diam. ; the interzonal band 3 lines high; the upper zone and 

 operculum are IJ in. in diam. ; the latter 6 lines high, concave beneath, and with a 

 velarium descending more than 3 lines within the mouth ; the pericarp is 2 lines thick; 

 the seeds were destroyed and agglomerated by caries in all the specimens I have seen. 



8. CuvTROiiA TuiKiBA : Ibiribd, Marcg. & Piso. Hist. Nat. Bras. p. 136 : ramulis tere- 



tibus, subcincrcis Icntlcellato-verruculosis, cortice subrimoso ; foliis oblongo-ovatis, 

 vcl oblongis, imo rotundiusculis vel obtusis et in petiolo brevissime decurrentihus, 

 apicc in acumen brcnissimum acutum vel obtusulum recurvulum abrupte attenuatis, 

 subintegrls, uiit ad margincm cartilagineum subicvolutum obsolete crenatis, char- 

 taccis vcl subcoriaceis, supra pallide viridibus, loevibus, subopacis, nervis divaricatis 

 vix proramulis, costa tcnui, striolata, prominula, subtus pullide brunneis, luride 

 opacis, pulvcrul(Mito-pj-iuaosIs, nervis tenuissimis venisque paullo prominulis, costa 

 striata promincnte; petiolo conaliculato, striato-rugoso, limbo 15plo breviore: 

 rnoemo t.,-mlnali, pauclramoso, folio multo breviore; rachi geniculata, nodosa, 

 crebrc C-10-flora; rachi fructifcra pediccllisque incrassatis : pyxidio immature sub- 

 globoso, sflppeglliboso, utrinquc convexo, ad medium zona calycari e sepalis foliaceis 

 auctis liaca ncxis cincto; vitta interzonali angusta, erecto-convexa, diametri tertiam 

 partem alia; zona superiore circular! ; operculo majusculo pulvinatim convexo, um- 

 bonato, mtiis concavo cum velario a^que alto intra faucem descendente; pericarpio 

 crasse corlaceo, fusco-brunneo, lenticellis flavidis maculato, scrobiculatim ruguloso, 

 mtus 4.Ioculari, interdum abortione sub-1-loculari; seminibus paucis, ohlon-is, 

 fusci^ testa crasse coriacea ; embryone generis. In Brasilia : v. s. in hb. Moot, 

 Maccio, prov. Alngoas {Gard,2er, 1411); ibidem (Gardner, 1312); Bahia {Sello): 

 r.frucL matur. in Mus. Ketc, Maccio {Gardner). 



Tins is evidently the plant described by Marcgraff as a tree about the height of a pea^ 

 tree growing m Alagoas, where it bears the name of Ibiriba, and where also Gardner 

 found vt as a small tree : the axils of its branchlets are l-lj in. apart ; the leaves are 



-G, m. long, li-3 in. broad, on a petiole 2-4 lines long, with about 10 pairs of nerves, 

 with others shorter, anastomosing with the veins ; the raceme is 2-4 in. lon^, with nodes 

 .-3 hues apart ; the fructiferous pedicels are 3-6 lines long; the immature pyxidium 

 (1 late LIX. figs. 14, 15) is 10 lines high, 18 lines broad ; the calycaiy zone (formed of 

 patent sepals 2 lines long) is 5-8 lines above the base; the operculum is 15 lines in 

 diam., 6 linos high, concave within, with the remains of a dissepiment, and with a 

 relanum descending halfway down witliin the mouth of the pericarp ; this is rather 

 thick, with a persistent stoutish dissepiment, one cell abortive, narrowish, the other cU 

 contammg a single erect seed, with other abortive ovules ai-ound the place of its attach- 



