﻿MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE^. 



255 



differs from Lecythls longipesy Poit 

 much attenuated, less coriaceous, i 



, in its narrower, more lanceolate leaves, gradually 

 ot sulcated in the nervures, with different nervation, 

 upon shorter petioles, in the extremely short rachis of its terminal receme, hearing only 

 3 approximated flowers upon more slender pedicels, in having only five sepals, an almost 

 superior ovary, with an elevated conical summit. "The leaves are 4^-7 



broad, on a petiole 2J-4 lines long; 



2 '4 



long 



■2 



pedicels 16 lines long, slender and striated ; 

 sepals 4 lines long, 2 J lines broad ; the petals and androphorum are wantino- in the 

 specimen I have seen. 



A 



EscHWEiLERA VEERUCIJLOSA, nob. : LecytUs vermmlosa, Berg in Mart. Fl. Bras. I. c, 

 502 : Lecythls pedicellaris, DO. (in parte) Prodr. iii. 292 : ramulis gracilihus, cortice 

 palhdo, lenticellis verruculosis ; foliis sparsis, ovali-ohlongis, imo obtusis et in peti- 

 olum subito brevissime acutatis, apice sensim attenuatis, subinte^ris vel in maro-ine 



tenui revoluto et subundulato obsoletissime 



ulatis, tenuiter chartaceis 



sup 



vu'idibus, subconvexis, minutissime granulatis, ner^ds plurimis tenuissimis parallel 

 patule divaricatis, semiimmersis, reticulatis, costa prominula, subtus albide pruinosis, 



pauUo prominulis, costa crassiuscula prominente ; petiolo canaliculato, limbo 



racemis 3-4 congestis, axillaribus, vel plurimis aggregatis et 



rachi recta, ancrulosa, flexuosa, subrubescente, 



recurvis, subsecundis. 



10-15plo brevio 



tcrminalibus, folio brevioribus 



18-30-flor 



bract 



rubentibus, corrugulatis 



ovatis, concavis, deciduis; pedicellis 



gulatis, rubenti-viridibus, dorso 



palis oblongis, rotundatis, brevibus, patentibus 



margine membranaceis et ciliolatis 



petalis obtuse vel rotundato-ovatis, viridi-albis ; ovario fere supero, turbinato, gros- 



uloso, 2-loculari, ovulis plurimis e basi erectis, vertice intra discum 

 pulvinato ; stylo brevi umbonato. In Brasilia ad Amazonas, in Eio 



elevat 



I^ 



egro {Mart. 2817) 



vidi 



J- Berg states that DeCandoUe founded his Zecythis pedhellm 



Martius's herba 



Lecyth 



the 



ibm 



present instance, he 



is on three specimens 

 rium, consisting of the leaves of this species mixed with the flowers of 

 and as the flowers have long pedicels in the latter, and short ones in 



^r „ y — suppressed the species named by DeCandoUe, and established 



^te perfect plant under the 



differs from B 



more appropriate designation of verruculosa. Berg says 



leaves are 2 



corrugata in its more membranaceous leaves and racemose flow 



The 



2-41 jj^^ J^j^ 



J3> 4 



2 in. broad, on a petiole 3-4 lines long ; the rachis of the 



stout and straight. ]i-4i in. long, bearing 18 to 30 flowers, the pedicels 



QP 



3 1 1 • 



^n«ir?i-^^^' *^^ ^^^^^ i^ l^ud 6 lines in diam.: calvx expanded 6 Hues in diam 

 '*pais lime lone , 



I 



ESCHW 



I. 



Br 



p. 495 



•as. I 



c. 



Blanchetiana, nob. : Lecythls Blmichetiana, Berg in Mart. El. Bras 

 Linn, xxvii. 455 : Lecythls ovata, var. ovalifoUa, Berg in Mart. Fl 



°^^is paliide bru 



pp. 498 et 618, pi. 7. fig. 154 : Lecythls odoratissima, Salzm. MSS 



ra- 







valibus 



nneis, vel cinereis, interrupte striatis, valde verruculosis; foliis 



imo rotundatis vel obtusis, et in petiolum brevissime acutatis, apice sensim 



2l2 



