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for a depth of 5 lines ; the operculum is J in. thick at the umhonate summit, 3 lines 



thick at the sides ; the hody of the pericarp is f in. thick at the bottom, 4 lines thick 

 the sides ; within are 4 cicatrices, where the seeds were attached. 



4. EscHWEiLERA SERRULATA, nob. I ramulis teretibus, fuscis, substriatis, lenticellatis ; 



foliis ovatis, imo rotundatis, et in petiolum breviter acutatis, sursum sensim paullo 

 angustioribus, et in acumen subbrcve obtusulum subito constrictis, in maroine 

 cartilaginco subrevoluto crenato-serrulatis, dentibus fusco-glandulosis, chartaceis, 

 supra profunde viridibus, valde opacis, subplanis, nervis tenuibus divaricatis vix 

 prominulis, rcticulatis, costa tenui, carinata, flavida, prominula, subtus luride bnm- 

 nescentibus, pruinoso-opacis, nervis venis(iue flavidis prominentibus, costa striolata, 

 flavida, promincnte ; petiolo marginato, corruguloso, limbo 15plo breviore : racemis 

 tenmnalibus, folio multo brevioribus ; rachi subflexuosa, subnodosa : pyxidio sub- 

 globoso, imo hemisphajrico ; ad medium zona calycari indistincta cincto; vitta inter- 

 zonali acclive convcxa, diamotri 5tam partem alta ; zona superiore Integra, quam caly- 

 caris paullo minorc ; operculo convexo, apicc umbone majusculo obtuso apiculato, 

 intus concavo, disscpimenti vestigio signato, cum vclario intra faucem descendentc; 

 pericarpio crassiusculc coriacco, fusco-bruimeo, opaco, subljevi, lenticellis flavidis 

 sparsis maculato, intus obsolete 2-loculari, imo cicatricibus seminum signato. In 

 I^msilia srptcnt. : v. pi s. in Mus, Brit., Maranhao ( G«r^;^^/', 6028) ; v.fr. s. in Mus, 

 Keio. (Gardner). 



A low tree orshrub, 8-12 feet high, in dry woods near Maranhao : it is a species near 

 £. compresm, difToinig in its larger and more ovate leaves and somewhat lar-er fruit : the 



of its luanchlcts are j-l in. apart ; the leaves are 3-5i in. long, l|-2i in. broad 



a petiole 2^-4 lines long, with about 13 pairs of yellow 



Gardner says (Trar. p. 107) that its fruit is different from that of another species he 

 saw at Pcmainbuco [Chjtroma Iblriba). The pyxidium (Plate LX fi- 4) is 2i in. 

 long, 2| in. bro.d at the calycary zone, which is 1 in. above the base ; the interzonal band 

 IS 1 m. high ; the upper zone and operculum 2^ in. in diam., the latter 9 lines high, with 

 the Yclanum descending 3 lines within the mouth ; the pericarp is about 2 lines thick ; 

 the scods are about 1 in. long, 6-8 lines broad, dorsally rounded, angular on the faces, 

 not granosely rugose (as in P. comprcssa), but smoother, subrugose, minutely granular, 

 with the branches of the raphe semiimmersed. 



6. EsCKWKiLEBA i^ENBLERiANA, nob. : ramis crassis, rugosis: ramulis fuscis, opacis, 



subbreviter flexuosis, angulato-striatis ; foliis ovalibus, imo rotundatis, vel obtusis, 

 npice rotuncUusculis, et in acumen brevissiinum obtusulum recurvum abrupte con- 

 stnctis, subintcgris, vel ad marginem cartilagineum revolutum punctis obsolete 

 sciTulatis, rigide coriaccis, supra pallide viridibus, erebre punctato-granulosis, nervis 

 tcnm^simis omnino immersis, eveniis, opacis, circa costam prominulam sulcatis, subtus 

 palhdissimic:, opacis, nervis pronunuUs,Tems crassis creberrime favoso-reticulatis, costa 

 promincnte imo crassiorc ct fuscata ; petiolo profunde canaliculato, fusco, corrugulato, 

 lunho 12plo breviore : racemis in ramidis noyellis terminalibus, hinc paniculain pauci- 



