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Linn, xxvii. .453 : ramulis teretibus, fusco-cinerascentibus ; foliis oblongis, vel 

 oblongo-lanceolatis, imo obtuse rotundatis, apice in acumen breve ssepe angustum 

 abrupte attenuatis, integerrimis, vel serraturis obliteratis subundulatis, rigidule 

 chartaceis, supra viridibus, nitidis, nervis plurimis, longe a margine arcuatim nexis, 

 prominulis, reticulato-venosis, subtus costa demum nigrescente nervisque promi- 

 nentibus ; petiolo tereti, canaliculato, limbo 24plo breviore : racemis axillaribus, 

 folio brevioribus ; rachi angulata^ flavide f uscescente ; floribus cum pedicellis validis 

 fere sessilibus : pyxidio turbinate, infra medium zona calycari e sepalis acutis 



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lineatim nexis cincto ; vitta interzonali quam diametrus dimidio breviore, erecta et 

 apice subito paullo rotundata; zona superiore circulari, quam inferior pauUo 

 angustiore ; operculo orbiculari, pulvinato, brevissimo, valde depresso, subumbo- 

 nato, intus concavo, cum vclario brevi intra faucem descendente ; pericarpio cras- 

 siusculo 2-loculari (?), dissepimento crassiuscule coriaceo, persistente, loculis 2-sper- 

 mis; scminibus oblongis, ventre subangulatis, dorso convexis, erectis, imo affixis. 

 In Brasilia septcntrionali ad flu v. Japurd (Martius) : non vidi. 



A species much resembling Eschweilera macrojphylla ; but it is a much larger tree, 

 bcliig 50-GO feet high, and differing in several characters, especially in its nearly sessile 

 flowers ; the axils of its branchlcts are somewhat remote : the leaves are 6-8A in. lonj?. 



f-2J in. broad, on a petiole 3-4 lines long. The pyxidium (Plate LIX. fig. 1) is 



2 in. long, the cnlycary zone 9 lines above the base and 2 in. in diam. ; the interzonary 

 band ia J in. high, suddenly narrowed at its mouth into the superior zone If in. in diam. ; 

 the operculum of this broadth is only 2 lines high, or 3 lines at the umbonate summit ; 

 the pericarp is 2 lines thick, with a dissepiment of nearly equal thickness ; the seeds are 

 14 lines long, 9 lines thick, fixed by their base, with a thin pergamineous testa, having a 



10 of several longitudinal bands, that along the ventral amrle bcinff broadest, as in 



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other species, and obscurely described by Ber 



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ptaculo albo 



hncari mvoluto ;" the nucleus is of a yellowish colour. There appears to me some 

 mistake in Berg's drawing and description; for in all the other species the dissepiment 

 is thin and membranaceous, rarely persistent, but here it is shown to be as thick as the 

 pericarp itself; and each ceU appears again 2-locular in the transverse section, for it can 

 hardly be meant to represent a section of the seeds, because he describes their testa as 

 thin and pergamineous (not thick and coriaceousl 



12. CttYTROiTA PiLACARPA, Tiob. : plauta ignota: pyxidio subgloboso, imo hemisphserico, 



infra medium zona calycari lineari 6.denticulata cincto; vitta interzonaU erecta, 

 diamotri tertiam partem alta ; operculo cum zona superiore orbiculari, vitta breviore, 

 primum valde depresso, mox valde convexo, apice l^vi, intus concavo, vcstigiis 

 septorum 4 signato, cum velario subbrevi intra faucem descendente ; pericarpio suh- 

 tenuiter coriaceo, opaco, fusco, lenticelHs flavis verruculoso, cortice tenui subrimoso, 

 obsolete 4.1oculari. In Brasilia : v, s. m Mns. Kew., Barra do Rio Negro {Sprtice, 

 li52, sub Swartzia argeulea). 



This fruit is 2 in. high, 2 in. broad; the calycary zone 10 lines above the base; the 



