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acuminatis, margine tenui pallido crenato-serrulatis, chartaceis, supra profunde 

 viridibus, sublucentibus, sub lente minute granulatis, nervis plurimis tenuissimis 

 patenti-divergentibus semiimmersis, venis transversis reticulatis, costa vix promi- 

 nula, pruinosa, subtus pallide brunneis, opacis, costa striolata, prominula, sub- 

 puberula, nervis prominulis^ in axillis subbarbatis ; petiolo tenui marginatim canali- 

 culate, limbo 30plo breviore : paniculis 1 vel 2, axillaribus et terminalibus, vel in 

 ramulis supremis e foliis delapsis in tbyrsam latam expansis, axillaribus, folio paullo 

 longioribus, racbi verruculosa ; ramulis paucis, patentibus, tenuissimis, puberulis ; 

 floribus minimis, subapproximatis, tenuiter pedicellatis ; sepalis 6, imo in cupulam 

 brevissimam connatis, oblongis, membranaceis, subviridulis, puberulis, ciliatis; 

 petalis 3-4plo longioribus, lineari-oblongis, expansis; androplioro imo breviter 

 cupuliformi, ligula late ovata, erectiuscula, intus undique et in marginibus 

 appendiculis staminiferis crebre vestito, antberis didymo-globosis ; ovario semi- 

 infero, 3-loculaii, verticc alte conico, laevi, ovulis paucis, e basi biserialiter erectis ; 

 stylo tenui, brevi ; stigmate niinimo, obtuso. In Antillis : v. pi. s. in hb. Hook., in 

 insiJa Trinidad, in bort. bot. cult. {Frestoe). 



A tree 60 feet higb, apparently first discovered by Purdie, and now cultivated in the 



Botanic Garden of Trinidad. The axils of its slender brancblets are J in. apart; the 



leaves are 3 in. long, 1 in. broad, on a petiole IJ line long, and tbey have about 20 pairs 



of parallel nerves, with very fine parallelly transverse reticulated veins, with the axils of 



the nerves barbated beneath : the branches of the compound panicle are 3 in. long, with 



hranchlets very slender, j-1 in. long, bearing flowers on short pedicels, 2 lines apart; 



the flower expanded is 7 lines broad; the sepals are 1 line long; the petals 3 lines long, 



1 line broad ; the ligula of the androphorum is 1 line long and broad ; the semiinferior 

 ovary is J line in diam. 



7. CARiyiANAPTKiFOKMis,nob.: planta ignota : pyxidio pyriformi, urceolato-cylindrico, 



ah imo obtuso sursum sensun ampliore, longiuscule supra medium zona calycari 

 Imeata cmcto ; vitta interzonali acclivi, convexa, diametri 3tiam partem alta ; zona 

 supenore quam inferior fere dimidio minore; operculo omnino applanato, nuUo 

 modo exserto, imo cum columeUa exacte obconica soUdissima infra apicem triquetra 

 longe descendente continuo ; pericarpio crassissimo, soUdissimo, brunneo, opaco, 

 subruguloso, post columella, casum l-loculari, intus exacte obeonico, vestigiis sep- 

 torum 3 sub apicem arcuatim nexis et impressionibus seminum signato ; seminibus 

 m quoque loculo 6-7, biseriatim imbricatis, erectis, imo affixis, structum generis. 

 In Bohvia : v. fr. s. in Mus. Sac. Linn., Betania, Rio Sinu, Bolivia (Anthoine) ; ^ 

 Mus. Keio,, exempla 3 (sine loco). 



The kbel attached to the Limi. Soc. specimen, in Anthoine's handwriting, says 



Betanm rm^re smu Plato BoHvia, New Granada," which I interpret to mean some 



sma 1 river Betanie flowing into the Magdalena near Plato. The pyxidium (Plate LXIH 



ng. ii; 18 3^ m. long, ^ in. in diam. on the calycary zone, which is 2J in. above the 



hnse; the interzonal band is 10 lines high; the upper zone and operculum are If in. 



