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from its hemispherical 3-celled ovary, and the peculiar structure of the androphorum, 

 it is unquestionably congeneric with the other species here enumerated. 

 The axils of its rugose branchlcts are about 3 lines apart; the leaves are 4A-6i in. 



long, 2j-2f in. broad, on a petiole 8-10 lines long; and they have about 24 pairs of 

 straight parallel nerves, united near the margin by an arching line; the terminal panicle 

 is 2J-3J in. long, with many irregular branches, each 1-3 inches long, all rough and 

 with articulated prominent nodes 1 line apart ; the pedicels are 7-9 lines lono- ; the 

 sepals 1 line long and broad ; inner pair of petals 7 lines long, 2^ lin. broad, 2 interme- 

 diate 9 lin. long, 3 lin. broad, 2 exterior 12 lines long, 10 lin. broad, tapering towards the 

 base, all membranaceous and of a roseate pinkish colour ; the androphorum, of a deep red 

 or purple colour, consists of a shallow cup-shaped ring, attached to the disk and charged 

 with very numerous short staminiferous appendages ; and this is expanded on one side 

 into a long fleshy canaliculated ligula, coiling round inwards, and terminating suddenly in 

 a fleshy knob, where it is as suddenly recurved in the same direction, finally expanding 

 into a galeated hood, convex outside, concave within, and simply fimbriated or toothed 

 on its margin, all coiled into a globular head, 3 lines in diameter. This structure agrees 

 with that of the preceding species. 



3. Allantoma TORrLOSA, nob. : arbor alta ; ramulis crassis, angulosis, in axillis crebris 



transversim annulatis ; foliis oblongis, imo acutis, apicem versus breviter et obtuse 

 acummatis, marginibus leviter serrato-crenatis, tenuiter chartaceis, supra brunneo- 

 vindibus, opacis, costa planata, nervis plurimis crebriter parallelis, erecto-patulis, 

 subimmersis, subtus vix pallidioribus, costa fusca convexa, nervis pallide brunneis 

 prommentibus, venis creberrime et transversim parallelis : pyxidio in ramis sessili, 

 cylmdrico, imo rotundato, zona calycari paullo sub apicem vix manifesto; vitta 

 mterzonali convexe erecta, diametri 4tam partem alta ; zona superiore circulari, fauce 

 erecta acuta ; operculo conformi, vittce altitudine, pulvinatim convexo, medio obtuse 

 umbonato, subtus columella crassissima ad basin descendente aucto; columella 

 sohda, acute 5-gona, angulis ad parietem adnatis ; pericarpio primum 5-loculari, 

 casu columella deinde 1-loculari, intus nitido, lineis 5 longitudinalibus cicatricatis 

 110 ata, extus toroso-tuberculato, ochraceo-brunneo, opaco et minute granulate ; 

 semimbus 20, ut in char, gener. In prov. Para : v. s. folium et fmctus in Mm. 

 ?^'' m sylvis ad Culantigo, Eio Maranhao (Farries, 69) ; in Mns. Keio., sine oper- 

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^^st;mDlT^^+r^^ *^^ specimen in the British Museum there is only a single leaf, much 

 of T^nr-ni'^A ?.^ *^® preceding species : it is 7 in. long, 2jin. broad, with about 20 pairs 



up close to the margin ; the petiole is wanting ; the 



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ascending 



apart • th ^ ^^^^ ^^ annulated branchlet |- J in. thick, with transverse axils 3 lines 

 ^^6 in. ^|j^^^^*^^^^ (^late LXIV.fig.l) is 7i in. long, 2i in. broad; the calycary zone 

 acute edo-e^^^ 1^^ ^^^^ ' *^^ interzonal band is 7 lines high ; the upper zone with an 

 *^^; the' • *^^ ?^*^^° ^^ *^^ operculum, are 2 J in. in diam., the latter being 

 ^^^g.'^ linisT^^^'^ ^^ coriaceous, 3 Hues thick; the hard dark-coloured seeds are 2 ir 



road, and 2 lines thick. Mr. Earries states, in a memorandum, that th 



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