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floram simulantibus ; iloribus majusculis, pedicellis longiusculis, sulcatis, rugulosis ; 

 sepaHs ovatis, siibinaequaliLus, subgranulosis, rubentibus, pulyerulento-opacis, mar' 

 'ne membranaceo subdenticulatis ; petalis oyatis, submembranaceis luteis • 



o 



ovario 



fere supero, 2-loculari, ovulis paucis erectis, vertice alte conico ; stylo subbrevi 

 umbonato cum stigmate minimo subobsolete ciliato : pyxidio depresse globoso, imo 

 turbinate et obtuse sulcato, infra medium zona calycari e vestigiis sepalorum cineto ; 

 vitta interzonali fere erecta, summo subconvexa, diametri quartam partem alta ; zona 

 superiore orbiculari ; operculo yalde depresso-pulvinato, subplanato, medio obtuse 

 umbonato, subtus concavo, dissepimenti vestigio signato ; pericarpio coriaceo, sub- 



2-locular 



seminibus in quoque loculo 2, majusculis, oblongis, lateribus pi 



oribus, imo affixis ; testa rufula, granoso-scrobiculata. In Venezuela : l. c. v. s. in 

 herb. Eook., Tovar {Fendler) ; v.fr. s. in Mus. Kew. (Fendler). 



This species comes near U. ovata in appearance : the axils of its flexuous branchlets are 

 about \ in. apart; the leaves are 2-2f in. long, IJ-lf in. broad, on a petiole 3 lines long, 

 and have about 8 pairs of divaricated nerves curving near the margin, the reticulation 

 * the veins being notably areolated ; the panicle is 3 in. long, its branchlets 1-1^ in. Ion 



Q, XV.O ^yi^^v.iiXV.LO J. J.2 J.ii. XWiXg 



basal 



bearing few flowers ; the smooth slender pedicels are 7 lines lohg ; the flower expanded 

 IS 2 m. across; the calyx expanded is 6 lines across ; the sepals 2 lines long and broad; 

 the petals 10 lines long, 5 lines broad ; the ligula of the androphorum, including the 



rmg, is 11 lines long ; the semiglobular head, 10 lines in diam., is densely echinated 

 ^vith flattened linear acute appendages : the pyxidium (Plate LX. fig. 6) is IJ in. long, 

 2| in. broad, its turbinate base 9 lines below the calycary zone, which is ^ in. in diam. ; 

 e interzonal band, somew^hat convex, is 8 lines high ; the operculum is 2 in. in diam., 

 nearly flat, and, including the umbonate tip, is ^ lines high ; the pericarp is about J in. 

 tiiick ; the seeds are 1 in. long, | in. broad. 



SCHWEILERA GrANABARiCA, nob. : ramulis teretibus, cinerascentibus, opacis, corru- 

 ^ato-striatis, lenticelHs flavidis sparse verruculosis ; foHis ovato-oblongis, imo ob- 

 ^sis, vel acutioribus, apice subito acute acuminatis, in marginibus revolutim 

 crenatis punctis obsoletissime serrulatis, chartaceis, supra viridibus, in nervis semi- 

 immersis sulcatulis, transversim reticulatis, costa tenui pauUo prominula, subtus 

 pa 1^ lonbus, costa nervisque promiuentibus ; petiolo tenui, fusco, supra sulcato, 

 ^jrgmato,^ corruguloso, limbo 8plo breviore : racemis brevibus, axillaribus, pauci- 

 ^^ns ; pedicellis fructiferis brevibus, incrassatis : pyxidio mediocri, truncato-turbi- 

 sube' ^t ^^^^^^^^^P^^^^'i^o, medio zona calycari subevanida cineto ; vitta interzonali 

 ^^ erecta, acclive convexa, diametri quintam partem alta ; zona superiore quam caly- 

 s^pLrf ^^^^^*^°^^' circular! ; operculo depressissimo, minime convexo, 

 signat^ ^'•^ ^^^^' ^^^^^^ l>reviter obtuse umbonato, intus concavo, septi vestigio 

 \...^^^: ^^^^^ ^arginem velario ad faucem descendente aucto; pericarpio crasso, 

 'neuto f °^^^^* ^^guloso, punctis par vis flavidis verruculato, 2-loculari, dissepi- 

 ^io de jIn ^^''^^^^ 4-6-spermo ; seminibus ut in K compressa. In Brasilia, prov. 



This s • ^^^^^^ * ^' ■^^* ** ^^fi'^^^^^^ *^ ^^^^^- *?^^^» Marica {Mattos). 



P^cies, from the province of Rio de Janeiro, on the coast towards Cabo Trio, is 



centr 



^run 



neo, 



