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p. 222, Icon. V. tab. 86: ramulis validiusculis, teretibus, subflexuosisj angulato-striatis, 

 ferruginco-tomentosis ; foliis ovato-oblongis, junioribiis angustiore oblongis, imo sub- 

 rotundatis vel obtusatis, apice sensim angustioribus et in acumen obtusum ssepe 

 recurvum attenuatis, marginibus undulatis, vix recurvulis, remotiuscule et grosse 

 crenato-dentatis, rigide chartaceis aut subcoriaceis, supra Isete viridibus, valde opacis, 

 glaberrimis, sub lente minutissime granulatis, nervis tenuibus divergentibus pauUo 

 prorainulis, venis transversis creberrime elevato-reticulatis, costa tenui, subprominula, 

 imo latiore, plana, straminea, subtus paullo palKdioribus, opacis, nervis venisque 

 prominentibus, costa valida, latiuscula, striolata, prominente, pilis brevibus rufulis 

 pubcscente; petiolo valido, supra late sulcato, marginato, rufo-pubescente, limbo 

 16plo breviorc : racemis axillaribus et terminalibus, folio subsequilongis, simplicibus, 

 rarius ramosis; rachi subtenui, rufo-pubescente, 16-20-flora; pedicellis brevibus, 

 crassiusculis, dense pubescentibus, imo articulatis et 3-bracteolatis ; bracteolis ob- 

 longis, acutiusculis, dcciduis, pubescentibus; sepalis 6, rotundatis, acutis, valde 

 imbricatis, cxtus carinatis et dense pubescentibus j petalis 6, obovatis, unguiculatis, 

 niajusculis, Ilavidis, extus puberulis ; androphoro majusculo, flavo ; ovario turbinate, 

 subinforo, pubcscente, 3-loculari, ovulis pluribus ad axin basi affixis, erectis, vertice 

 pulvinato, dense pilosulo, centre concavo, stylo in cavitate late umbonato, glabro, 

 stigraate paullo minore semigloboso cavo glabro apiculato : pyxidio turbinato-cylin- 

 drico, obsolete trigono, opace brunneo, scrobiculato-ruguloso, cortice rimoso, paullo 

 8ul) apicom zona calycari irrcgulariter linear! cincto ; vitta interzonali brevi, diametri 

 4(tam partem alta, basi crecta, apice introrsum convexa ; zona superiore quam in- 

 ferior paullo minore, integra, orbiculari; operculo orbiculari, depresse pulvinato, 

 crcnato-sulcato, ccntro concavo et umbonato, subtus columella crassa subtriquetra 

 elongata aucto; pcricarpio post operculi casum 1-loculari, tenuiter coriaceo, glabro; 

 seminibus in loculis 3, ad columeUam imo affixis, erectis, imbricatis, margine ala 

 'lata membranacca undique cinctis. In Brasilia : v. v, in flore et in fructu, Barro 

 Vermrlho, Rio de Janeiro. ' 



A noble tree, witli a straiglit trunk 40-60 feet bigh, with a wide-spreading head ; its 



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brancblcts, 2i lines thick. Lave axHs l|-2 lines apart ; the leaves are 4-7 in. long, 



2-4f in. wide, on a broad petiole 2 lines long; the raceme is 2-7 in. long, the pedicels 

 3 lines long ; the sepals 3 lines long and broad ; the petals 15-17 lin. long, 9-10 lines 

 broad; the pyxidium (Plate LXII. fig. 8) is 3 in. long, 1^ in. broad; the interzonary 

 band IS 4 Uneshigh, and below the mouth, which is IJ Hue broad, the operculum, of the 

 same size, is 2 lines high, attached to the descending columella of nearly the same 

 diameter ; the seeds aic much larger in proportion than in the other species, being 2 in. 



long and 11 lines broad, the embryoniferous disk in the centre being 14 lines long and 

 lines broad. 



4. CoxiR ATARI Maetiana, uob. : Lccyllds Martiana, Berg in Mart. M. Br. L c. p.487: 



glabra, ramulis teretiusculis, sulcatis, fuscis; foHis sparsis, ovali-oblongis, imo 

 acutis, apice obtusis et breviter acuminatis, marginibus vix serrulatis, supra palHdis, 

 ncn-is divancatis, arcuatim nexis, cum aliis interjectis et anastomosantibus, vcnis 



