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MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACEiE. 



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saepius umbonatnm, infra valde concarum, sine columella, dissepimenti mox eranidi vestigio signatum, 

 cum velario intra marginem propc faucem dcsccndente munitum: pericarpium (operculumque) paullo 

 crassum, coriaceum, sine axi ceutrali, primura 2-loculare, dissepimento ssepius evanido. Semina in 

 quoqae loculo 1-3, sicca, ovata, interdum pressione subangulata, utrinque rotundata, erecta, hilo 



rugosa 



ad apicem faciei ventralis adscendente omnino immersa, cujus ramis plurimis longitudinaliter descen 



internum 



~ O " Q- «.*-*w-„«. pjwv^v^ ^J^L^L..^ iLI.K7VJ. l*.\^l>U.l.iX , l^tlVUl Ul. 



fuscus, cerco-carnosus, amarus^ structura ei ChytronKB similis. 



exalbuminosus 



krhores frondos(S Americ(S meri 



1. EscHWEiLERA ANGrsTiFOLiA, Mart. PI. Katisb. XX. (1837), Beib. ii. S9: Leci/this 

 angustifolia, Eerg (excl. syu.) in Mart. El. Bras. I. c. p. 489, tab. 7. fig. 162; 

 tab. 70 et 71 : ramulis tenuibus, teretibus, fusco-brunneis, corrugulato-striatis, ob- 

 solete verruculosis ; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, imo subacutis, apice in acumen 

 angustum calloso-mucronatum sensim acuminatis, margine cartilagineo subreyoluto 

 leviter crenato-sernilatis, chartaceis, supra viridibus, opacis, ad nervos subremotos 

 sulcatis, venis reticulatis prominulis, subtus brunnescentibus, opacis, costa nervis- 

 que prominentibus ; petiolo fusco, tenuissimo, submarginato, ruguloso, limbo 

 10-12plo breviore : racemis terminalibus, folio breyioribus, racM tenui, lenticellata, 

 5-8-flora ; pedicellis calyce longioribus minute granulosis ; calyce brevi, rotato- 

 ciipiiliformi, margine crenato-lobatp, lobis 6 obsolete rotundatis extus minute 

 verruculosis; petalis distincte 4, ovato-rotundatis, concavis, sub^qualibus, albis, 

 flavide punctatis; ovario subinfero, bemisnh^erice turbinato, flavide ver 



2-locula 



radiat 

 spli 



uculoso 



Tills 



1, ovulis plurimis, e basi radiatim erectis, vertice depresse pulvinato 



ini striato, stylo brevi, obtuse umbonato : pyxidio subgloboso, imo hemi- 



et stipitato, infra medium zona calycari lineari-circulari cincto; vitta 



uaii acclive conyexa, diametri 7am partem alta; zona superiore quam altera 



e, Integra, circulari ; operculo yitta duplo altiore, sensim conyexo, apice um- 



, mtus concavo, septi yestigio notato, intra marginem yelario descendente 



> pencarpio subcrassulo, coriaceo, striato-ruguloso, septo evanescente demum 



V^^' ^^'^^^^^^> seminibus angulato-oyatis, erectis, 2-seriatis. In Brasilia, 



CWc d ^^ ^^^^^^"^ '■ ^- *■ ^^ ^'^- ^oot, Monte Corcoyado in sylyis {Martius, 61) ; 



rcovado {Qraham)', Serra d'EstreUa {Langsdorf) : f mctus mihi non visus. 



of the ^f ^^^^^' ^""^f ^^^lly described in the Ratisbon Plora, is distinguished from aU othei 



^^rnacuC^^ ^*^ ^-petalous flowers. It is a tree 30-40 feet high, bearing the 

 •^readin/i^^^^ ^^ ^^«n5«-mw/». Its trunk is bare to the height of 20 feet, with a wide 

 ^^3 J in'' lo^^ ■ ^^® .^^^^^ ^^ its slender branchlets are J-f in. apart; the leaves are 

 patent ner^es^' ^\i^^^ ^^^^ ^^os.^, on a petiole 2-3 lines long, with about 8 pairs of sub- 

 ^^^^ of the' 1 ^^^^^^ ^^ 1-li in. long, the pedicels lJ-2 lines long, the expanded 

 expanded 2 T ^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^™' "^^^^ ^^^^ * ^^^^ ^^^^^' obsoletely lobed ; the flower 



**^at accordinD.T^^^ ' ^^^ ^ ^^*^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^' ^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ' ^^^ *^^^ number is con- 

 aJways 6 petl^^ ^^rtius, as shown in the plates quoted ; but Berg states that he found 



^' probably in those of the following species, which he confounded with 



^ ^pecies 



2k:2 



