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MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE^. 277 



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globoso, imo turbinato, ad medium zona calycari irregulariter lineari cincto ; vitta 

 ittterzonali angustissima ; zona superiore Integra; operculo orbiculari, conice hjemi- 

 sphaerico, apice breviter et obtuse umbonato, infra concavo, septo obsoleto sio-nato 

 cum velario brevi intra faucem dependente ; pericarpio undique ocbraceo, brunneo 

 lenticellis flavidis maculato, tenuiter coriaceo, obsolete 2-loculari; seminibus plu- 

 rimis, subcylindraceis, acute 4i-5-angulatis, apice truncatis, erectis, in series 2-3 

 dispositis, hilo basali affixis. In i^.mazonas : v. pi. s. in hi. Eooh., Barra do Eio 

 Negro {Spruce) ; fruct. in Mus. Kew. {Spruce, 68). 



A spreading tree, 15 feet high, with a trunk 6 in. thick, called Fao de Macaco, growino- 



into the river ; the axils of the lon^? \yeak branchlets are 14-11 in. 



b 



j3 ,,^^^ «^ l*x^vyj_ix^ Ud CAXl^ A.A—JL2 



apart ; the leaves are 4J-4| in. long, 2J-2| in. broad, on a petiole 4^-5 lines long, and 



have about 12 pairs of subimmersed nerves, with others shorter and intermediate, all 



anastomosed. The pyxidium (Plate LXI. fig. 7) is lf-2^ in. long, 2f in. broad at the 



calycary zone, which is f-l in. above the base ; the interzonal band is 3 lines high ; the 



operculum is 2^ in. broad, and 13-15 lines high, with a velarium descending 2 lines 



below the mouth ; the pericarp and operculum are about \\ line thick, both marked by 



the traces of the dissepiment ; it contains about 16 seeds, with a thickish coriaceous 

 testa IJ-li in. long. 



3. JuGASTRUM PLATYSPERMUM, nob. : ramulis tenuibus, teretibus, ffriseo-brunneis, an^u- 



losis, verruculosis ; foliis ovatis, imo obtusiusculis et in petiolum breviter acutatis, 

 apice m acumen subobtusum recurvatum constrictis, ad marginem cartilagineum 

 revolutum obsolete crenato-serratis, chartaceis, supra subpallide viridibus, opacis, 

 costa pauUo prominula, nervis tenuibus subimmersis, reticulatis, subtus palHdioribus, 

 glauco-pruinosis, costa sulcata nervis venisque prominulis; petiolo canaliculate, 

 margmato, subtus ruguloso, limbo 12-13plo breviore : inflorescentia ignota : pyxidio 

 subgloboso, imo hemisphgerico, ad medium zona calycari sublineari cincto ; vitta 

 mterzonali ejusdem diametri 5-6tam partem alta ; zona superiore integra ; operculo 

 orbicular! subdepresse pulvinato, apice convex© vel obsolete umbonato, infra con- 

 cavo, cum velario vittae dimidio altitudine intra faucem dependente ; pericarpio sub- 

 enuiter coriaceo, ochraceo-brunneo, punctis flavidis farinosis maculato, 2-loculari, 

 issepimeuto fere evanido ; seminibus plurimis, majuscuHs, latissime obovatis, apice 

 nmcatis, valde angulato-compressis, hHo basali biserialiter affixis. In Amazonas : 

 ^•Pl' s. in hb. Hook, Barra do Eio Negro {Spruce, 1519) ; v. fruct. in Mus. Keic. 

 "^^'^ce, 1519), in Mus. Brit { Wallace). • 



{Sp 



river °^. ?^^^^^^S ^^ee, with a thick trunk, abundant in the swampy plains along the 

 apart* ?, ^^,^^^^^ Mdta-mdta and Pdv de Macdco : the axils of its branchlets are |-| in. 

 with Je 1 ""^^ ^""^ ^~^* ^- '^''''^'' lt-2i in. broad, on a petiole 3-4 lines long, and 

 all uJT ^^^^^ ^^ slender semiimmersed nerves, with others shorter and intermediate 

 *^^ anastomo ' ' 





the calvo ""^ ' *^^ Pjxidium (Plate LXI. fig. 9) is 1^2 J in. long, 2-2f in. broad at 

 %h • th^"^ '''''^* ^^'""^ '' *-^i ^^- a^o^^e *^e ^^^^ ' *^^ interzonary band is 4-5 lines 

 VOL XX ''^^^''''^'''^^ 2f-2f in. broad, is 4-6 Hues high, with a velarium descending 



