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very distinct from the two first mentioned. The axils of its slender branchlets are |-f in. 

 apart ; the leaves are 2-2| in. long, 11-21 lines broad, on a petiole 3-4J lines long, and 



with about 10 pairs of nerves. I have not seen the inflorescence ; but the fructiferous 

 raceme is 1 in. long : the pyxidium (Plate LX. fig. 7) is turbinate below the middle, is 

 2 in. long, 2J in. broad at the calycary zone, which is 13 lines above the base ; the inter- 

 zonary band is 5 lines high ; the upper zone and operculum 2 J in. in diam. ; the latter 

 is much flattened above, is only 3 lines high, obsoletely bossed in the centre, or with an 

 obtuse umbonate point, 2 lines high ; it is concave and subbilocular below, not very 

 thick, and with a velarium descending 3 lines within the mouth. ; the pericarp is stouter 



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than in U. compressa, is 3 lines thick, white, opaque, and granulose in the mouth to a 

 depth of 4 lines, where the velarium was attached, subpolished and brown below, where 

 it is transversely ridged by the evanescent dissepiment. The seeds are ovate, subangularly 

 rounded, scrobiculatcd and grooved along the furcated branches of the imbedded raphe, 

 arc 11-12 lines long, and 9 lines broad; in ail the hollows of their surface we see a 

 wliitc elllorcscence, noticed before in p. 166. 



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7. Escii^TEiLEBA IDATIMONOIDES, nob. : Lecythls idatlmonoides, Berg in Mart. PI. Br. 



I. c, p. 49G, tab. 73. fig. 3 : arbuscula, ramulis pulvcrulcntis, verruculosis ; foliis 

 sparsis ovali-oblongis, imo in petiolum attenuatis, apice acuminatis, subintegerrimis, 

 Tcl in marginem rcvolutum punctis obsolete serrulatis, chartaceis, supra nervis 

 tenuibus, patcntim divaricatis, pauUo prominulis, costa sulcata, subtus nervis venisque 

 reticulatis prominulis, costa promincnte ; petiolo canaliculato, limbo IGplo breviore : 

 raccmis axillaribus, folio brcvioribus ; rachi vaKda, flexuosa, pauciflora ; floribus 

 mnjusculis; pedicellis validis, sulcatis, recurvis, calyce 2-4plo longioribus ; sepalis 

 ovatis, vel ovato-oblongis, obtusis, insequalibus, crassis, convexis, carinatis ; petalis 

 ubovatis, aurcis; ovario semisupero, 2-loculari, vertice elevato, verruculoso, stylo 

 brcvi conico umbonato ; pyxidio turbinate, imo rotundato, infra medium zona ealy- 

 cari e sepalis majuscnlis acutis inflexis linea nexis cincto; vitta interzonali sub- 

 verticali, diametri 8 ram partem alta; zona superiore Integra; operculo circulari, 

 quam vitta 3plo altiore, quam zona latiore, pulvinato, dein conice convexo, obtuse 

 umbonato, iiTcgulariter rugoso, subtus concavo, cum velario subangusto intra 

 fauccm descendente. In Guiana Batava {JFullschlvegel, 203) : non vidL 



The above aeount is taken from Berg's description ; it appears to differ from Z. Ida- 

 tiinon, ilubl., in its arborescent habit, somewhat smaller leaves, longer pedicels, much 

 larger flowers, longer and nnrrower sepals; from Z. WullschlcBgelii (K macrophylla), in 

 its much smaller leaves, more acute at base, with shorter petioles, and stouter racemes. 

 II approaches K longipcs, and perhaps scarcely differs from it ; it has the same-shaped 

 Iraws (though smaller and with shorter petioles) ; its inflorescence is remarkably like, » 

 stout flcxuous rachis of the same length, with few very large flowers upon very Ion 

 pedicels, thickened at the apex, and its fruit of similar size and of the same proportions; 

 ^ differs from E. ovata in its more oblong leaves, in its shorter raceme, with fewer 



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shorter and stouter pedicels. Its leaves, somewhat distant, are 4 



IJ in. broad, on a petiole 2-3 Hnes long; the rachis of the raceme is 11-2^ in. long, 



