﻿286 MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE^. 



This is a tree with a trunk of immense diameter, and 120 feet high, not infrequent in 

 the province of Kio de Janeiro, affording a valuable timber, and bearing the name of 

 Jequitibd branca, which is much employed in the Campos for sugar-cases. The axils of 

 its branchlets are |-1 in. apart ; the leaves are 1}-3| in. long, 1^-2 in. broad, on a petiole 

 4r-5 lines long, and they have about 12 pairs of nerves, with others intermediate, very 

 short, all anastomosed ; the panicles are 3-4 in. long, with 3 or 4 shorter branches ; the 

 pedicels 1 line long ; the calyx ^ line ; the petals 2 lines long, J line broad ; the pyxidiura 



(Plate LXIII. fig. 6) is 4| in. long (sometimes a little shorter), 1} in. in diam. in 

 the middle, the calycary zone is 3 j in. above the base, and 1^ in. in diam. ; the 



interzonary band is 8 lines high ; the upper zone 1 in. broad ; the operculum is of the 

 same diameter, 4r} lines high, the columella 4 in. long, 10 lines thick within the mouth 

 for the length of 4 lines, then tapering downward, and trigonously chambered ; the pericarp 

 is I in. thick ; the seeds 16 lines long, 5 lines broad, membranaceous below, bearing 



mbryoniferous escutcheon 5 lines long, 4 lines broad 



2. Cariniana domestica, nob. : CourataH domestica, Mart. M. Eatisb. /. c. p. 127 ; 



Berg in Mart. PI. Br. I, c. p. 510, tab. 80 : ramulis crebris, teretibus, glabris, juni- 

 oribus subpubcrulis ; foliis ovato-oblongis, imo acute obtusis, apice in acumen sub- 

 breve obtusulum attenuatis, marsrinibus cartilaerineis subrevolutis, leviter crenato- 



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scrrulatis, chartacois, crebre parallelc nervosis, nervis patenter divergentibus sub- 

 immersis, venis transvcrsis, reticulatis, costa crassiuscula ; petiolo canaliculato, mar- 

 ginato, limbo 12plo breviore : paniculis axillaribus et terminalibus, ssepe binis, folio 

 2-32)lo longioribus, pauciramosis, bracteolis minutis donatis; ramis densifloris, 

 angulatis, puberulis; pedicellis brevibus; calyce breviter campanulato, margine in 

 lobos G votundos expansos diviso ; petalis spathulato-oblongis, obtusis ; ovario infero, 

 3-loculari, verticc piano ; stylo brevi, conico, obtuso : pyxidio urceolato-cylindrico, 

 subcostatim hexagono, longe supra medium zona calycari annulatim prominente 

 cincto ; vitta interzonali introrsum inclinata, diametri 3tiam partem alta ; zona supe- 

 nore Integra, quam inferior angustiore; operculo orbiculari, depresse convexo, 

 cum columella fere sequilata continuo, hac summo breviter cylindrica, dein 3quetra, 

 longc dcscendcnte ; pericarpio crasso, dure lignoso, fusco, opaco, obsolete tubercu- 

 lato ; cseteris ut in prsecedente. In Brasilia, prov. Goyaz, Cuyaba {Silva Manso) : 

 plrrnf. non lidi; v.fruct. in Mns. Kew. {Burchell, 9877*). 



This is a lofty tree, also bearing the name of Jequitibd : the axils of its branchlets are 

 f-f in. apart ; the leaves are 3-4i in. long, lf-2J in. broad, on a petiole 3-4 lines long, 

 and have about 24 pairs of parallel nerves ; the panicle is 2-2^ in. long, bearing about 

 3 brnnchlets, li in. long, crowded with smaU flowers; the short calyx is°lline long; the 



from yellow to red, and margined with white, are 3 lines long, 1 line 

 broad ; the yellow androphorum is 2 lines long and broad, and is char-ed within with 



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very numerous short staminigerous appendages. The pyxidium (Plate LXIII. fig- ^) '^ 

 2, in. long, the calycary zone is IJ in. in diam., is 1| in. above the base ; the interzonary 

 band IS 5 lines high; the upper zone is 10 lines in diam.; the operculum, of the same 

 brondth, 18 1 Imc high; the columella and seeds as in the preceding species. 



