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in petiolum angustatis, apice longe acuminatis, subintegerrimis, supra fusco-Tir 

 dibus, nididis, nervis utrinque 10-12 patentim incurvis adscendentibus et cum venis 

 immersis reticulatis anastomosantibus, costa prominente ; petiolo canaliculato, limbo 

 12plo breviore: inflorescentia et fructu ignotis. In Brasilia, in prov. Para, ad 

 Tanali, in fluv. ripis (non vidi). 



Spruce saw this species growing at Tanaii, where it was too lofty to procure specimens 

 of its leaves. Martins, however, obtained its leaves, though without flower or fruit, so 

 that we are not certain that it belongs to this genus. It is a magnificent tree, with a 

 straight trunk, strengthened at its base by strong buttresses, and affords a valuable hard 

 timber of a palish colour, used in ship-building, yielding logs 65 feet long and 18 in. 

 square. The name Tailari is also given to its laminated inner bark, consisting of many 

 thin whitish sheets of the substance of paper, well known in commerce, being extensively 

 used for the covering of cigarettes. The leaves are 3-5 in. long, IJ-S in. broad, on a 

 petiole 3-6 lines long. Either this species or another producing an inner bark, bearinjj 

 Ibo name of Taliarij is found in the province of Maranhao. 



8. CouRATAKi ViiiEsii, nol). : planta ignota: pyxidio cylindrico imo gradatim conico, 



obsolctissimc trigone, costulis parallclis subpromincntibus circa 12 signato, intervallis 

 tcnuiter reticulatis, paullo sub apiccm zona calycari e sepalis 6 parvis acutis linea 

 ncxis cincto ; vitta interzonali angusta, erecta ; zona superiore suborbiculari, margine 

 acuta; operculo ignoto; pericarpio tcnuissime coriaceo, brunneo, intus vestigiis 

 septorum 3 notato. In Guiana, v.f. 8. in Mus. Keic, Surinam {De Vriese). 



The pyxidium is 3 in. long, gradually attenuated downward from the calycary zone, 



wliich is 2 J m. above the base, and 1 J in. in diam. ; the interzonary band is 3 lines higli : 

 the upper zone entii-e, acute on the edge, and IJ in. in diam. ; the pedicel is slender 

 IJ in. long. 



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9. Cariniana. (Plate XXXV. c.) 



It was shown {ante, p. 1G9) that this genus of Casaretto was not accepted by botanists 

 and that its species were described and figured by Berg under the name of Couratari 



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It differs, however, most essentially from that genus in its smaller flowers, cup-shapod 

 cal^-x, smaller, equal petals, in the structure of its androphorum, in the very thick peri- 

 carp of its fruit, and in its seeds, winged only at one extremity. 



Couratari 



Cariniana, Casar 



Cahjx adnatus, limbo libcro, brcvi, cupulari, mar-Iue in lobes 6 rotundatos vel acutiores dlvi«), 

 rotatus. Petala 6, pan-a, lineari-oblonga, subsequalla, apice imbricata et Lie sjepius adhaerentia, 

 imo soluta, et s^pe cum audroplioro modo calyptrae caduca, rarius explanata. Androphorum par- 

 Tum, urceolato-campaniilatuTn, ore valde obliquo, margine in appendices hneares staminiferas 

 laciniato, cum appendicibus aliia similibus intra tubum pluriseriatis, inferioribus gradatim bre"*- 

 simis, cunctis iutrorsiim inflexis, tnbo margine basali ad discum affixo. Stamina pana, in appen- 

 dicula insita, iis Couroupitce simillima. Discus epigyuus annularis, angustissimus. Ovarium omnino 

 niferura, turbinatum, 3-loculare. vertice intra discum nnnnavn ^^cV.ui\rr. «fr;«+n mnririne elcvato- 



