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•MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACE.E. 



The fruit (Plate LXV. fig. 10) is very distinct from all otliers of the genus in its very 



ventricose or lagenoid shap 

 bark. 



with 



4 



r 



ery short interzonal band, and a thick crackin 

 It is 3J in. long, 2 in. in diam. above the base, narrowing to a breadth of 1 

 in. at the calycary zone, the interzonal band being 2 J lines high ; the upper zone is 1| 

 in. in dlam. ; the pericarp is nearly 3 lines thick, and is borne upon a short thickish 

 pedicel. 



12. Allantoma ? FAGIFOLIA, nob. : Lecythis fagifolia, Berg, Linn, xxvii. 451 : ramnlis 



« 



gracilibus, striatis, fuscis, junioribus badiis, subpuberulis ; foliis ovali-oblongis, imo 

 sensim acutis, apice obtusule acuminatis, obsolete serrulatis, submembranaceis, 

 glabris, supra ncrvis patule divergentibus et adscendentibus parura prominulis, 

 reticulatis, costa plana, subtus pallidioribus, nervis costaque prominentibus ; petiolo 

 canaliculate, limbo 5-6plo brcviore : racemis axillaribus et terminalibus, folio midto 

 brevioribus ; rachi subpubcrula, multiflora ; pedicellis longiusculis, gracilibus, 

 puberulis ; srpalis rotundatis, ciliatis ; petalis ovalibus, tenuibus ; ovario infero, 



In Guiana 



turbinato, pubcrulo, 3-loculari, vcrtice piano, 

 Butava, ad ripas fluv. Marowyna {non vidi). 



stigmate fere sessili. 



Tliis plant cannot belong to Lecythis, owing to the absence of a style. I have referred 

 It here bi cause of its habit, its inflorescence with long slender pedicels, and the near 

 obliteration of its style; it approaches A. BurcJielliana, differing in the thinner texture 

 of its smaller leaves, which 



shorter racemes. It is a tree with slender branchlets ; 

 broad, on a petiole 6-8 lin. long ; 



arc somewhat cuneate at base, its longer petiole, and 



leaves 2J-4 in. long, 1| 



3 

 4 



l^m. 



racemes f-2 in. long; pedicels 9-11 lines Ion?; 



srpnlji 1 lino long; petals 8 Un. long; androphorum 5 lines in diam., with a ligula 



1 in. long. 



11. Grias. (Plate XXXVI. c). 



The 



history of this genus and the account of its general structure has been given m a 

 preceding page (p. I7lj ; we have therefore only to delineate its generic character, and 



describe its species, noticing the similarity in the structure of its calyx 



BcrthoUetia. 



that 



Geias, Linn. 



Brown 



Calyx in alabastro 



concav 



aubparallclis, avstiv 

 Cpigjnus, annular! 

 cxdsum, marjrine 



icata, uiignibus inter discum ct androphorum 

 Androphorum deprcsse urceolatum, petalis 

 in appendiculas liueares breviusculis apic( 

 milibus incurds pluriserialibus eradatim brc 



iis agglutinatis. Discra 

 dimidio brevius, centre 



' staminiferis fimbnatO- 



finmenia brcvissima, tenuitcr 



globosis, medio ad filamcntum affixis, rima laterah longitudinahter dehiscentibns, demum modo 



expansis. Ovarium infemm, Lemisphsericum, subauadratum 



m 



quoque loculo plurimis, axi suspensis, vcrtice intra discum concavo, extus crenatim elevato, radiatim 

 striate: »iyhs brcrissimus, crassuisculus ; sfimna illo latius, sessile, denressum. ad mediu 



cniciformibus, obtusis, rotatis. recurvatis 



globosum, 4-sulcatuin 



aut ob- 



