﻿254i MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE^. 



acutum vel obtusulum abrupte constrictis, subintegris, vel in margine tenui valde 

 revoluto obsoletissime serrulatis, subcoriaceis, supra pallide viridibus, opacis, in 

 nervis semiimmersis sulcatis, reticulatis, costa plana, immersa, fusca, pruinosa, imo 

 crassiore, subtus pallidis, opacis, nervis venisque valde prominentibus, costa strio- 

 lata, fusca, promincnte ; petiolo fusco, sulcato, marginato, subtus ruguloso, limbo 

 lOplo breviore : racemis axillaribus et terminalibus ; rachi valida, angulata, fusco- 

 ferruginea, scabride pruinosa, 6-15-flora ; floribus majusculis, laete violaceis ; pedun- 

 cuHs tenuibus, longissimis, striatis, subscabridule velutinis, fuscis ; sepalis oblongis, 

 obtusis, crassiusculis, subinaequalibus, rugulosis, carinatis, margine ciliatis ; petalis 

 magnis, oblongis, concavis ; ovario infero, semigloboso, granulato-rugoso, 2-loculari, 

 ovulis plurimis, erectis, vertice piano, flavide opaco, vix striolato ; stylo brevissimo, 

 umbonato : pyxidio depresse turbinate, imo rotundato, infra medium zona calycari 

 e sepalis acutis inflexis linea nexis cincto ; vitta interzonali erecta, diametri 8vam 

 partem alta; zona superiore integra; operculo primum pulvinatim convexo, dein 

 . late rotundatim umbonato, vitta 3plo altiore, subtus concavo, cum velario intra 

 fauccm dcsccndente; pcricarpio obsolete 2-loculari; seminibus 2-4, ovali-oblongis, 

 costatis. In Guiana : v, s, in herb. Mus. Brit., Cayenne [Martin) ; fruct. non vidi. 



A tree 25-30 feet high ; the axils of its branchlets |-1 in. apart ; the leaves are 5^-7 

 in. long, 2 J-3 J in. broad, on a petiole 5-7 lines long, with about 16 pairs of nerves, very 

 prominent beneath, irregular in their direction ; the rachis of the raceme is stout, about 

 4 in. long, its nodes 2-3 lines apart ; the slender pedicels, slightly thickened above, are 

 10-18 h'nes long; the sepals 2 J lin. long, 2 lin. broad; petals 15 lines long, 10 lines 

 broad ; androphorum 1 in. in diam. The pyxidium (Plate LX. figs. 12, 13) is IJ in. long, 



2 in. bioad at the calycary zone, which is 6 lines above the base ; the interzonary band 



3 lines high ; the operculum 2 in. in diam., 9 lines high ; pericarp apparently thick, with 

 2, sometimes 4 seeds, 6 lines long, 4 lines broad. 



10. EscnwEiiEEA LUTEA, nob. : Lecythis lutea, Aubl. PI. Guian. ii. 721 : Lecythis Ion- 



gi])es, Benth. (non Poit.) in Ilook. Journ. Bot. ii. 321 : ramulis teretibus, sulcatis, 

 brunneis, opacis, viTruculosis ; foliis lanceolato-oblongis, imo obtusis, apice sensim 

 longe ct acute acuminatis, subintegris, vel ad marginem cartilagineum revolutum 

 punctis obsoletissime serrulatis, subcoriaceis, supra pallide viridibus, opacis, nervis 

 patule divergentibus, dein adsccndentibus, paullo prominulis, reticulatis, costa strio- 

 lata, subtus pallidis, opacioribus, minutissime granulatis, nervis venisque promi- 

 nentibus ; petiolo fusco, sulcato, subtus corrugulato, limbo 4!-5plo breviore : racemo 

 tcrminali, brevissimo, 3-floro; pedicellis approximatis, calyce 4plo longioribus, 

 tenuibus, apice inflexis ; sepalis 5, oblongis, obtusis, crassis, extus convexis, opacis, 

 granulatis, imo gibbosis, marginibus vix tenuibus, obsolete denticulatis : ovario fere 



onmino supero, 2-loculari, ovulis in quoque loculo 6, e basi erectis, vertice pulvinato, 

 elevato, flavide opaco, con-ugulato ; stylo late conico ; stigmate minuto, papilloso, 

 albido. In Guiana {Auhlet) : v.s. in herb. Soolc., Guiana Brit. {Schomburgh ^^^)- 

 Tliis plant quite agrees with Aublet's short description of his Lecythis lutea. K 



