﻿260 MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE^. 



monospermo. In Amazonas, fl. Solimoes, Ega, in sylvis inundatis prope ripas lacus 

 (Poppiff, 2507) ; non vidi. 



The above description is taken from that of Berg, and must not be confounded with 

 Z. partfijlora, Aubl. It is a tree 30-40 feet high ; the leaves are 2-6 J in. long, 8-36 lines 

 broad, on a petiole 5-7 lines long ; and they have about 10 pairs of imbedded nerves, 

 arcuately anastomosed and reticulated, scarcely visible above, little prominent below: 

 the rachis of the raceme is 1-1^ in. long ; the flower in bud J in. in diam. ; sepals H line 

 long; petals lines long ; style 1 line long : the pyxidium (Plate LX. fig. 21) is 14 lines 

 long, 6 lines broad ; calycary zone 9 lines above the base ; interzonary band 2 lines high ; 

 operculum 31 lines high. 



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18. EsciiWEiLEiLV TAiivirLOTiA, nob. : Lecythis parviflora, Aubl. PL Gu. ii. 717, tab. 285 



et 287 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 292 ; Berg in Linn, xxvii. 453 : ramis dichotomis, ramulis 

 tcnuibus, fasco brunncis, striatis, vcrruculosis ; foliis oblongis, imo obtusis, apice in 

 acumen subacutum abrupte uitenuatis, integris vel in margine cartilagineo sub- 



rcvoluto punctis obsolctissimo serrulatis, chartaceis, supra pallide viridibus, sub- 

 T!itidiii, nervis tcnulsslmis subimmersis, reticulatis, costa tenui carinata fiavida pro- 

 minuln, subtus fulvide pallldioribus, opacis, nervis venisque prominulis, costa 

 sulcata promiT!f»nte ; petiolo fusco, subtenui, marginato, subtus corruguloso, limbo 

 12plo brcviore : paniculis axillaribus ct terminalibus, folio subsequilongis, ramosis ; 

 ruchi Ku])l(Miui comprossa, nodosa, pruinosa, ramis subtenuibus; floribus parvis, 

 odoratis; podiccUis tenuibus, brevibus, minutissime granulosis: pyxidio ovato, supra 

 medium zona eulycaii c sepalis divarieatis in lineam nexis cincto ; vitta interzonali 



diamotri qiiintam partem alta, acclivc 



superiore circular! ; operculo 



nttresequialto, convexc pulvinato, apice obtuse umbonato, intus concavo, dissepimento 

 t(?niu persistente, cum vebrio intra faucem longe descendente ; pericarpio coriaceo, 

 incomplete 2-loculari, loculis l-spermis ; seminibus oblongis, longitudinaliter striatis, 



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hilo basuli ailixis. In Guiana : v. s. in hh. Mus. Brit., Cayenne (Auhlet). 

 A shrub with a trunk 3 feet high ; the axils of its branchlets f in. apart ; the leaves 

 are 3-5 in. long, If-lJ in. broad, on a petiole 3-4 Hn. long, and with about 12 pairs 

 of nerves divaricating and ascending near the margin, with others shorter and inter- 

 inediate, all anastomosing; the panicle is 2 in. long, the slender pedicels 2 lin. long : the 

 pyxidium (Plate LX. fig. 19) is 1 inch long ; the calycary .zone 7 lines above the base, 

 Jind 10 lin. in diam. ; the interzonal band is 2 Hn. high ; the operculum 8 Hn. in 



diam., 3 Hncs Ligli, i^ith a pendent velarium 3 lines deep ; the seeds are 9 Hn. long, 

 4 lin. broad. 



10. EscnwEiLERA MICEANTHA, nob. : ZecytJiis mlcrantJia, Berg in Linn, xxvii. 451 : 



ramuHs subtenuibus brunncis, interrupte striolatis, opacis, remote vcrruculosis; 

 foHis oblongis vel lanceokto-oblongis, imo obtusis aut sape acutioribus, apicem 

 versus sensim angustioribus et in acumen longiusculum s^epe acutissimum vel 

 obtusulum sensim attenuatis, integris vel in margine cartilagineo valde revoluto 

 punctis obsoletissime serrulatis, chartaceis, supra l^viusculis, subopace viridibus, 



