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ovatis, convexis, submembranaceis, flavis, extus imo subvariolatis ; ovario infero 

 minute lenticellato, 2-loculari, ovulis 4-6 in quoque loculo, erectis, vertice depresse 

 pulvinato, stylo brevi crasso umbonato : pyxidio turbinate, imo obconico, sulcato, 

 sub medium zona calycari e sepalis 6 linea nexis cincto ; vitta interzonali acclive 

 convexa, diametri dimidium alta; zona superiore circulari, integra; operculo ignoto. 

 In ins. Trinidad : v, 8. in kerb. Hook., in flore et in fr. immaturo {JPrestoe) ; idem 

 (Cruger, 302); idem in sylvis {Purdie, 37); v.fr. a. in Mus. Keic. (Furdie). 



The axils are |-1 in. apart ; tlie leaves are 4J-12 in. long, 3|-6 J in. broad, on a petiole 

 4-8 lines long, and witb about 13-15 pairs of nerves, with otbers sborter and interme- 

 diate; the branches of the panicle, or racbis of the racemes are 2-3 in. long; with nodes 

 2-4 lines apart ; the pedicels are 3 lines long ; the calyx expanded is 6 Mnes across ; the 

 sepals 2} lines long and broad ; the petals in the bud 9 lines long, 6 Hues broad ; the 

 androphorum, with a fleshy bare ligula 4 lines wide, has a broader semiglobose head, very 

 convex, very densely echinated within by innumerable sterile appendices; the style is 

 } line long; the pyxidium (Plate LX. fig. 15) is a little gibbous by the semi- 

 abortion of one of the cells, is 1^- in. long without the operculum; the calycary zone is 

 7 lines above the base, l^ in. in diam. ; the interzonary band, very convex, is 8-9 lines 

 high ; the upper zone entire, 1^ in. in diameter. 



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14. EscHWEiLEEA ovATA, Mart. : Lecythis ovata, Camb. PL Bras. Mer. ii. 378, tab. 158; 



Berg in Mart. PI. Br. I. c. p. 467 (exc. syn. plur.) ; Linn, xxvii. 454 : ramulis rugu- 



losis, interrupte striatis, pallide brunneis, vel glauco-opacis, lenticellis majuscuhs 



flavidis verruculosis ; foliis ovaH-ellipticis, imo obtusis, aut acutioribus, supra 



medium sensim rotundiusculis, apice in acumen acutum vel obtusum canaliculatim 



recurvum constrictis, in margine paullo revoluto obsolete serratis, aut fere in- 



egris, subcoriaceis, supra pallide viridibus, sublucentibus, ner\as prominulis, reti- 



culatis, subtus pallidioribus, opacis, nervis tenuibus venisque paullo prominulis, 



costa striata prominente ; petiole canalicnlato, margmato, granulatim ruguloso, Hmbo 



2plo breviore : racemis in ramulis novellis terminalibus, solitariis vel binis, folio 



«^iilongis ; rachi tenui, tereti, striata, lenticellata ; floribus majusculis, odoratis ; 



pedicellis tenuibus, longiusculis, fuscis, striatis, patentibus vel nutantibus ; sepalis 



ongis, obtusis, carinatis, marginibus crenulatis et serrato-denticulatis ; petalis 



ongis, concavis, margine denticulatis ; ovario infero, turbinato, pilosulo vel 



Prumoso, 2.1oculari, ovulis in quoque loculo, erectis, vertice depresse pulvinato, ra- 



a im striate ; stylo subbrevi, imo conico, sensim tenuiore ; stigmate minimo albo : 



^ 1^ ^^^aturo parvo, subgloboso, paullo supra medium zona calycari e sepalis 



^^acutis radiantibus linea nexis cincto ; vitta interzonali angusta, erecta, diametri 



am partem alta ; zona superiore inferiorem fsquante, orbiculari ; operculo depresse 



uscll -^^ ^^^^exo, longe et obtuse umbonato, intus concave, cum velario crassi- 



evan-d ^"^^""^ ^^^"^^^ descendente ; pericarpio coriaceo, 2-loculari, dissepimento fere 



obsolet^' ^"^^ gibbese unilaterali ; seminibus paucis, hilo basali affixis, Isevibus vel 



v.fr ^ ^^ ?^^'^^^^^' In Brasilia : v. s. in lib. mriis, circa Pernambuce {Gardner, 1023) ; 



' ^' ^"^ ^iiS' S:eio,, :PeviiSimhuco (Gardner). 



