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stout, flexuous, few-flowered ; flowers very large ; pedicels thickened al)ove, 10 lines Ion 



pals 2-2i lin. Ion- 1^-2 lin. broad ; petals 14 lines long ; androphorum 9 lines in diam"! 



style } line long: pyxidium (Plate LX. fig. 9) 20 Unes long; caljcary zone 7 lines 

 above the base, 2 in. in diam., with persistent sepals 6 lines long, and as broad at their 

 base ; interzonary band nearly 2 in. in diam., and 3 lines high ; operculum 2 in. in diam. 



lines high 



8. EscHWEiLEEA COREUGATA, nob. : Lecythis corrugata, Poit. Mem. Mus. xiii. 145, tab. 3 • 

 DC. Prodr. iii. 292 ; Miq. in Linn. xxii. 175 ; Berg in Linn, xxvii. 453 : ramulis 

 subvahdis, teretibus, obsolete rugoso-striatis, fuscis vel paUide brunneis, flavide 

 lentieellatis ; foliis elongato-oblongis, vel obovato-oblongis, imoobtusis, et in petio- 

 lum breviter aut sensim acutatis, apiee in acumen acutum vel obtusulum s^pe 

 canaliculatim recurvum sensim aut repente attenuatis, integris vel in marginibus 

 cartilagineis^ subrevolutis punctis obsolete serrulatis, coriaceis, supra l^eviusculis, 

 opacis, neryis tenuibus fere immersis, obscure reticulatis, costa pauUo prominente, 

 subtus pallidioribus, ferrrugineo-opacis, nervis venisque reticulatis prominulis, costa 

 vaUda prominente ; petiolo fusco, canaliculato, valde corrugulato, limbo 12plo bre- 

 viore : racemis in axilHs solitariis, vel 2-3 fasciculatis et terminalibus, folio bre- 

 vionbus; rachi flexuosa, longe nodosa, angulato-striata, nodis approximatis cum 

 pedicellis articulatis; pedicellis recurvulis rugosis, ovarioque transversim valde 

 corrugulatis ; sepalis oblongis, crassiusculis, granulatim rugulosis, carinatis, margi- 

 nibus membranaceis obsolete denticulatis ; ovario semisupero, 2-loculari, ovulis 

 P unbus erectis, vertice alte conico, laevi, stylo brevissimo tereti apiculato : pyxidio 

 ma 0, imo obcouico, creberrime et grosse corrugato-rugoso, supra medium zona 

 ca ycari e sepalorum vestigiis linea nexis cincto ; vitta interzonah diametri tertiam 



reviore, erecta; zona superiore orbiculari; operculo pulvinato, convexo, 



tuse umbonato, intus concavo, vestigio dissepimenti signato, cum velario 



aucem late dependente; pericarpio coriaceo, crebre transversim corrugulato, 



^issepimento fere evanido obsolete 2-loculari; seminibus in quoque loculo binis, 



^ IS, basi affixis. In Guiana : v. 8. in herb. Mus. Brit, et Booh, Cayenne {Martin) ; 



raonary {^agot, 1032); Demerara {Tarler) ; v.fr. s. in Mm. Kew. {Farker) 



mvl- VT^* *^^^* ^^® ^^^^^ covered by a thick bark composed of more than 100 



^°^g; pet I^ ^^^.^^® ^^ ^~^ i^- long; flowers pink; pedicels 4-5 Hn. long; sepals 2 lin. 

 IX. figs iV ^^•^' '^^^^' ^ ^^^* ^^^^^ ' androphorimi 5 lin. diam. ; pyxidium (Plate 

 and li_ii ^l }^ t! "^^ ^^' ^^^^' ^hH in. broad ; calycary zone G-7 Hues above the base, 



^ lines hLx!^' ^^,,^' ' interzonary band 2-3 lines high ; operculum 1-1 



"^O^, With a Vplayii^,^ t !• _ JT . r^-, ■,' 1.1 '1. 



in diam 



ESCHWE 



velarium 1 line deep ; pericarp 2 J lines thick 



144 tab 1 ^^^^^^^s, nob. : Lecythis longipes, Poit. (non Benth.) Mem. Mus. xiii 

 453'. y^' ^! ^^' ^ ^ ; DC. Prodr. iii. 292 ; Miq. Linn. xxii. .175 ; Berg, Linn, xxvii 

 foliis obT • ^^^^^^^' sulcatis, fusco-ferrugineis, opacis, pruinosis, verruculosis ; 

 ^OL. XXX. °^^^^' ^^^ obtusis et in petiolum ssepe acutatis, apice in acumen sub- 



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