﻿MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE^. 237 



ment; the immature seed is 10 lines long, 7 lines broad; with a thick coriaceous testa, 

 containing a dark embryo, with an internal neorhiza of a paler colour. 



9. Chttroma cincturata, nob. : Lecythidis sp., Spruce in Hook. Kew Journ. v. p. 239. 

 n. 67 : planta ignota : pyxidio subgloboso, imo brevi, convexo, pauilo supra basin 

 zona calycari e sepalis 6 acutis patentibus et linea nexis cincto ; vitta interzonal! 

 cylindrice suberecta, diametri quartam partem alta ; zona superiore orbicular!, Inte- 

 gra ; operculo fere ejusdem altitudinis, bemisphaerice convexo, apice interdum breviter 

 obtuse umbonato, infra concavo, cum velario intra faucem descendente, septi ves- 

 tigiis signato; pericarpio crassiuscule coriaceo, fusco-opaco, ruj^oso-scrobiculato 



6-spermo; seminibus ovatis, utrinque rotundatis, ventre subangulatis, dorso con- 

 vexis, raphe ventrali, late linear!, marginibus liberis, cum ramis prominulis, lon- 

 gitudinalibus, cancellatim furcatis ab hilo adscendentibus. In Amazonas : v. fr. 



sicc. in Mus. Kew., Barra do Uio Negro {Spruce, 67). 



This fruit, according to Spruce, belongs to a tree 60-80 feet high, growing in forests 

 near the Barra, furnished with weak branches, too lofty to obtain the leaves. The fruit, 

 called by the natives Macacarecuya (Plate LIX. fig. 7), is If in. long, 2 in. broad, 

 the depth below the calycary zone being 5 lines, the interzonary band 7 lines high, the 

 operculum near 2 in. in diam., 8 lines high, the velarium descending 2 lines within the 

 mouth ; the seeds are 12 lines long, 8 lines broad, with a coriaceous 



testa like that of 



typical species 



10. Chytroma 



nob. : planta ignota : pyxidio urceolato, imo campaniformi 



pauilo supra medium zona calycari annular! e sepalis 6 dentiformibus linea 



cmcto ] vxtta interzonal! erecta, diametri quintam partem alta ; zona superiore circu- 



an, mtegra, inferiore sequali ; operculo depresse pulvinato, vertice late concavo, intus 



plane concavo, cum velario subbrevi intra faucem descendente ; pericarpio subtenui, 



"itus obsolete 4-1 ocular! ; seminibus 4, ovatis, ad faciem ventralem subangulatis, 



do basal! affixis, erectis, fusco-brunneis, raphe lata, ventrali, cum lineis aliis lon- 



gitudmahbus immersis e basi adscendentibus furcatis; embryone generis. In 



Amazonas, v.fr. sicc. in 3Ius. Kew., Barra do Rio Negro {Spruce). 



,^ ^^ IS one of the kinds of fruit called by the natives Macacarecuya, or Moukey-cups. 



^hl'h^-^^^^^^- ^^^^^^ ^^^' ^^' ^^ ^^ ^i '^^' ^^^^' ^* ^^' ^^^^^ ^* ^^^ calycary zone, 

 'Hamet^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^' *^^ interzonary band is 5 lines high and 1 J in. in 

 sliape^ a^^ k^^^ operculum, of the same diameter, is 3 lines high, and precisely of the same 

 nf fL^^ .^^ ^' ^"^^o^^urgkii, but thinner in substance, and very different from that 



Precedmg species : it is broadly concave in the summit, qiiite hollow inside, with 



The 



the 



i ^^e thick "^ margin descending 2 lines into the mouth; the pericarp is barely 

 ^ seed.\^''io v'^^ *^^® vestiges of the dissepiments, which have disappeared (and it contains 

 ^^U3 Imes long, 9 lines broad. 



^1- Chtxro 



* 



?rodr • ^^^^Dif oLiA, nob. : Eschweilera grandljlora, Mart. obs. 3071 ; DC. 

 ^'01- XXX ^^^" ^^^' -^^^^^'^^ arandiflora, Berg, ri. Bras. I. c, p. 494, tab. 73. fig. 1 ; 



