﻿MR. J. MIEllS ON THE LECYTHIDACE^. 279 



6. JuGASTRUM PoiTEAUi, nob. : Lecythis Poileaui, Berg in Mart. Fl. Bras. I. c. p 615 • 



ramulis teretibus, subtenuibus, rugoso-striatis, lenticellis 



juniorib 



nigrescentibus ; foliis oblongis, imo obtusis, apice in acumen angustum attenuatis, 

 ad marginem tenuem rcvolutum obsolete serratis, siibcbartaceis, supra nitidis^ 

 nervis plurimis tenuissimis subpatule divaricatis semiimmersis, venis reticulatis! 

 costa tenuissima vix prominula, subtus pallidioribus, luride Mvidis vel cinnamomeis! 

 valde opacis, pruinosis, conspicue nigro-punctatis, costa nigra nitente prominente! 

 nervis venisque nigris pauUo prominulis ; petiolo nigrescente, canaliculate, limbo 

 18-24plo breviore : racemo terminali folio eequilongo ; racbi flexuosa, crassa, longe 

 nodosa, transversim dense rugulosa, pauciflora ; floribus majusculis ; pedicellis sub- 

 remotis, crassiusculis, rugulosis, recurvis ; sepalis 6, oblongis, obtusis, injequalibus ; 

 petalis 6, albo-yirescentibus ; andropboro albo ; ovario infero, turbinate, subgranoso- 

 rugoso, 4-loculari, ovulis in quoque loculo circ. 6, e basi erectis, vertice intra discuni 

 depresso ; stylo longiusculo. In Guiana : v. s. m hb. Mus. Brit., Cayenne {Martin) ; 

 in kb. Eooh., Guiana Gallica {Sagot, 270, sub Lecythis racemipra). 



As Sagot's plant agrees so well witb Berg's species, I have referred it to this genus on 

 account of the structure of its androphorum and of its ovarium : it is closely allied to 

 Jngastrum coriaceum. The leaves are 3-6 in. long, 1 J-2J in. broad, on a petiole 2-3 

 lines long, and they have about 24 pairs of nerves, with others shorter and intermediate, 

 all anastomosing ; the rachis of the raceme is above 6 in. long, bare at its base for half 

 Its length, where it is 1^-3 lines thick ; the pedicels, thickened above, are smooth, 

 recurved, nearly | in. long ; the flower in bud is 9 lines in diam., very broad when 

 expanded ; sepals 4 lines long, 3 lines broad ; petals small when compared with the 

 androphorum, 10 lines long, 7 lines broad ; androphorum globose, 8 lines in diam. in the 

 ^ud expanded 28 lines long, 8 lines broad at the basal rmg, 12 lines broad in the globose 

 , Which is lined with very numerous adpressed staminiferous appendages ; the turbi- 



e ovary is 4 lines long, 5 lines broad across the annular disk : the style is 2 lines long. 



8. CoijRATARi (Plate XXXY. b.) 



hav ^. ^^^^^^ ^^ *^^^ S^^^s is abeady given {ante, p.l68), showing how its characters 

 je een completely misunderstood and described as those of a new genus, under the 



Lecythopsis ; it only remains to offer an outline of its true generic features 



Lecyth 



COUUATAEI. Aubl 



opsis, Schrank 



^te ' ' ^""^ '' ^«^^«^««« (in parte), Berg (non Casar.). 



^aguicdat ^^"'"^^'^ ^' ^^^^""^^^ ohtusa, crassiuscula, subrotata. Pefala 6, magua, oblonga, imo 

 aadrophorr' ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ta, concava, carnosula, subimbricata, subinsequalia, uuguibus ad discum 

 ^lajuscullr^^''^ agglutinata et cum isto decidua. Discus epigynus, annularis, planus. Androphorum 

 iatus ap'TufT^^^^^^^'^'^' ^^^ ^^ poculum disco adnatum reductum, centre excisum, margine hberum, 

 latere \/T T^'^ numerosis brevibus subclavatis creberrimis 



instructum 



I'&ula ad eZ""^' ^""^S^^si^iam aequilatam crassam canaliculatamnudam sensim incurvatam expansum, 

 «Pb«rica ! ^'^'*''*^^ reduphcatim contorta, et in nodum contracta, galea terminali convexa, hemi- 



^PpendicuHs 



Hneari 



2o2 



