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this. The pyxidium (Plate LIX. fig. 20) is 2J-3 in. long, 2^-3^ in. broad in the 

 middle, the portion below the calycary zone 1 in, high, upon a stipitate prolongation 

 J in. long ; the interzonary band is 5-6 lines high ; the operculum 2-3 in. in diam., 

 1-1| in. high, hollow within, provided within the margin with a descending velarium 

 1-5 lines deep ; the pericarp, obsoletely 2-locular, is 3-4 lines thick on the sides, nearly 

 J in. at the base, where it is marked by the hilar cicatrices of 10 erect seeds, which are 



1 in. long, f in. broad. Martius says that the seeds are imbedded in pulp, " carne parca 

 e septo propullante," an improbable circumstance when the seeds, in 2 series, are sessile 

 upon the bottom of the pericarp, and contrary to what occurs in every other species. 



2. EsrrrwETLERA compressa, nob. : Lecythis compressa, Veil. Tl. Plum. p. 222, Icon. v. 



tab. 87 : ramulis brunneis, terctibus, rugose striolatis ; foliis ellipticis vel elliptico- 

 oblongis, imo obtusis, ssepe subito acutatis, apice longiuscule attenuatis et recur- 

 vulo acuminatis, grossiusculc smuato-dcntatis, dentibus obtusis, marginibus pauUo 

 refl^'xis, chartaceis, supra pallide viridibus, planis, opacis, nervis pluribus, tenui- 

 bus, scmiimmcrsis, valdo reticulatis, costa tenui, subtus opacis, brunnescentibus, 

 rosta ncn-vis venisquo prominentibus ; petiole subtenui, supra piano, subtus Icviter 

 striolato, limbo 15-20plo breviore: racemo terminali, subbrevi; rachi subtenui, 

 striata, minute granulata, 5-6-flora; floribus mcdiocribus; pedicellis brevissiniis ; 

 calycc subcupulari, usque ad medium in lobos 6 diviso, lobis obtusis, margini- 

 bus mcmbranaceis ; petalis 6, rotundatis, concavis, extus flavide maculatis, ex- 

 teriore majusculo et latissimo; ovario subinfero, corrugulato, 2-loculari, ovulis 

 puucis, in unica srric crectis, vertice depresse conico, striato, stylo brevi obtuso 

 apiculato : pyxidio depresse globoso, imo hcmisphserico, non stipitato, paullo supra 

 medium zona calycari linea irrogulari vix prominente cincto ; vitta interzonal! 

 acclive convexa, diametri i partem alta ; zona superiore quam altera paullo minora, 

 irrcgulariter cii-culari; operculo subconice convexo, umbone crasso obtuso apiculato, 

 intus concave, scpti vestigio signato, intra marginem velario crasso faucem descea- 

 dente aucto ; periearpio crassiusculo, pallide brunneo, subscrobiculatim ruguloso, 

 inhis Levi, dissepimento omnino evanido, imo seminum cicatricibus notato ; se- 

 minibus saipius 6, vel paucioribus, 1-seriatis, compresse ovatis, dorso convexis, hilo 

 lato basali afTixis, fusco-brunneis, imdique scrobiculatim rugulosis, lineis nigris cir- 

 eitor G sulcatmi immersis ab hilo curvatim adscendentibus signatis. In Brasilia, prov. 

 Eio do Janeiro : v. tf. injlore ebjnictu ad Botofago, in sylvis non longe a mari. 

 Tins spocies, though closely allied, is manifestly different from the preceding, being of 

 s^nialler stature, with larger, thicker, paler leaves coarsely serrated, a raceme with fewer 

 ilowors half their size, a more distinctly lobed calyx, and 6 oval petals. It is a tree 

 nbout 12 feet high, growing near the sea, the species being well represented in the 



f TeUoz : the axils of the branchlets are J in. apart ; the leaves are 3 



1-lf m. broad, on a petiole 2^-3 lines long, and with about 11 pairs of nerves; the 

 raceme is f 1 in. long, with axils about 4 lines apart; pedicels 3 lines long; the calyx 

 .^xpnu.led 1. 1 hues across (the disk being 2 lines in diam.), the smaller petals suborbi- 

 muur, 6 hue. long and broad, the outer petals 7 lines long. 6 Hues broad, extremely 



