﻿261 , MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACEiE. 



This species is near E. platycarpa ; but the rachis of the inflorescence is more slender 

 more geniculated, the pedicels more slender, shorter, and the sepals smaller. 



25. EscHWEiLERA rLACciDA, nob. : ramulis subvirgatis, teretibus, cinerascenti-brun 

 neis, striolatis, sublsevibus ; foliis late oblongis, vel elliptico-oblongis, imo obtusatis 



apiee In acumen subacutum subito 



margine tenui revoluto punctis 



obsolete serrulatis, -flaccide submembranaceis, supra Isete viridibus, opacis, minute 

 glauco-granulatis, nervis tenuissimis venisque reticulatis prominulis, cosfca promi- 

 nente, subtus fere concoloribus, opacioribus, costa striolata nervis venisque promi- 

 nentibus, sub lente minutissime granulatis ; petiolo fusco, limbo 12-14plo breviore : 

 racemis in ramulis novellis tcrminalibus, rachi brevi, ru^osa, crebre nodosa : floribus 



majusculis; pediccUis calyce longioribus, superne crassioribus, angulato-sulcatis 



mmute granulosis; sepalis gequalibus, oblongis, obtusatis, erassis, fuscis, opacis, 

 medio rugulosis, imo gibbosis, erectiusculis ; petalis androphoroque sicco flavis; 

 ovario scmiinfcro, turbinato, 2-loculari, ovulis in quoque loculo 6, uniseriatis, e basi 

 adscendentibus, radiantibus, vertice elevato, depresse pulvinato, radiatim striato, 

 stylo brevi conico umbonato ; stigmate minimo, niveo. In Guiana Gallica : v. s. in 

 herb. Mua, Brit., Cayenne {Van Bohr). 



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A species near K macrophylla, differing in its slender branchlets, broader leaves, which 



flaccidly membranaceous, in its short terminal racemes, with closely approximated 



flowers. ^ The leaves are 4|-8 in. long, If-Sf in. broad, on a petiole 4-6 lines long; tbe 



raceme is IJ in. long, with nodes \ line apart; the pedicels are 5 lines long; the sepals 

 4. lines long, 1 \ line broad ; the androphorum 9 lines in diameter. 



26. EscuwEiLERA SIMPLEX, uob. : ramulis subtenuibus, .teretibus, paullo flexuosis, pallide 



brunneis, mterrupte striolatis, verruculosis ; foliis subremotis, elongato-oblongis vel 

 lanceolato-oblongis, imo obtusis vel sensim subacutis, apice in acumen longiuscule 

 angustum obtusulum subrepente attenuatis, integerrimis, vel obsolete crenulatis, 

 margme subcartnaginco et subrevoluto, chartaceis, supra pallide et l^te viridibus, 

 snbopacis, nervis tenuissimis subimmersis, parallele divergentibus, reticulatis, costa 

 vix prommula, subtus concoloribus, costa granulatim punctata nervis venisque 

 proTumentibus ; petiolo semitereti, fusco, ruguloso, limbo 40-50plo breviore : racemo 

 tcrmmali, folio 6plo breviore ; rachi tenui, l-flora ; floribus majusculis. In Guiana : 

 V. 8. %n herb. Mus. Brit, Cayenne {Martin). 



K species near E. lutea, but easily recognized by its slender branches, its distant leaves 

 on extremely short petioles, and its slender, single, terminal flower. Its axils are IH 

 m. apart ; the leaves are 8-9^ in. long, lf-2 in. broad, on a petiole 1 Une long, and with 

 about 12 pairs of nerves, with 1 longer and 2 shorter intermediate nervures ; the rachis of 

 the terminal raceme is about 1 in. long, bearing on its summit a single flower, the slender 



pefel of which is \\ in. long ; the petals are about | in. long, the Indrophorum 7 lines 



I oS^!? "^ P;^y™^^^t outside. As there is only a singlTflower glued to the sheet 

 1 could not ascertain its structure " o => 



