﻿210 MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACEiE 



DC. Prodr. iii. 291 (excl. syn.) ; Berg in Linn, xxvii. 453 : Lecythis hasizone, Berg 

 in Mart. PI. Br. I. c. p. 617 : artor magna, ramulis teretibus, cinereo-brunneis, 

 obsolete striatis, subverruculosis ; foliis oblongis, imo obtusis, apice in acumen 

 obtusum subbreve subito attemiatis, margine subrevoluto obsolete crenato-ser- 

 ratis, rigide chartaceis, supra fusco-viridibus, subnitentibus, vel subopacis/nervis 

 tenuibus, subpatentibus, semiimmersis, creberrime reticulatis, costa tenui, subtus 

 opacis, cinnamomeis vel hepatice ferrugineis, nervis venisque flavidis paviUo pro- 

 minulis, costa prominente, nitida; petiolo profunde sulcato, marginato, subtus 

 corrugulato, limbo ISplo breviore : recemis axillaribus, brevissimis ; rachi flexuosa, 

 valde vcrruculosa, nodosa ; floribus approximatis, subparvis ; pedicellis calyce lon- 

 gioribus, validis, rubris, lenticellis albis verruculosis ; sepalis acute ovatis, rugu- 

 losis ; petalis subinaiqualibus, ovatis, concavis, imbricatis, incarnatis : pyxidio 

 parvo, subgloboso, imo turblnato; paullo supra basin zona calycari annulari e 

 sepalis rcflcxis 6-lobata cincto ; vitta interzonali erecte subconvexa, diametri Mam 

 l)ariem alta ; zona superiore integra ; operculo alte convexo, umbonato, intus concavo, 

 4«-8«'ptato, cum vclario latiusculo intra faucem dependente ; pericarpio crustaceo- 

 coriaceo, d-loculari, dissepimentis membranaccis sistentibus ; seminibus in quolibet 

 loculo soUtariis," ventre angulosis, noivosis, amaris. In Guiana: v. s. pi. in herb. 

 Mus. JBrit., Cayenne {Auhlet) {fnictum non vidi). 



The fnioti fci-ons spccluKMi collected by Poiteau in Guiana, and called by Berg Z. hasi- 

 zonr, is nidcntly identical with Anblefs plant. The same species is said to grow in 



Trinidad, where it is called Gnnfiaan\ in Cayenne it is known by the name Idatimon. 

 Its trunk is GO fcot high, with a branching head; the axils of its branchlets are | in. 



tipart; the leaves are 6-5J in. or more long, l|-2 in. broad, on a petiole 4-5 Knes 



h)ng, and with about 18 pairs of nerves, with others shorter intermediate, all anasto- 

 mosing; the racLIs of the raceme is l\-2 in. long; the pedicels, curved and deflected, 

 4 lines long ; the sepals 3 lines long ; the petals about J in. long ; the pyxidium (Plate 

 TiTX. fig. 17) is IJ in. long, IJ in. broad ; the calycary zone is 1^ in. in diam., aad 

 6 lino=; above tlu' base ; the intcrzonarr band is about 3 lines high ; the upper zone li in. 

 in diatn. ; the operculum, of the same breadth, is G lines high, with a velarium which 

 descends 3 lines within the month. 



Itt. CuYTBOMA SAIEBKOSA, nob. : Lecythis salehrosa. Berg in Mai-t. Fl. Bras. /. c. p. 488 : 



arborca, raraulis griseis, striatis, verruculosis ; foliis sparsis, ovah'-oblongis, sffp« 

 compUcatis, imo in petiolum nngustatis, apice recurvato-acmninatis, marginibus 

 subrcvolutis iutcgrls, vel obsoletissi me serrulntis, utrinquc nitidis, concoloribus, 

 nems erecto-patulis, mox in venis vix tenuioribus promiuulis anastomosantibus : 

 petiolo canaliciilato, limbo (>~9plo breviore: racemis axillarihus et terminalibu?, 

 foUis brevioribus, dense pruinosis; ra(>hi gracili, flexuosa, angulosa; bracteis ca- 

 dncis; pedicellis torosis, recurvis; sepalis parum brevioribus, ovatis, vel ovato- 

 oblond«. obtusis ; petalis subrotundis, denticulatis ; ovario infero, toroso, 4-locuhiri, 

 OTulis e basi erectis, vertice radiatim striato ; stylo longiusculo. In Guiana Batavn, 

 ad coloma Bcrlyn {If elUchlegel , 1472) : non vidi. 



