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those of Cesjpidesia macrojjhj/lla, Seem. The pedicels are 9 lines long, angulately 

 striated, with a basal bract 1 line long; the flowers are 1-1 J in. broad; petals coriaceous, 

 with imbricate aBstivation ; the androphorum bears about 100 staminiferous appendages ; 

 the ovary is 7 lines long, 4 lines broad. 



4. Grias Peeuviana, nob. : foliis majusculis, spathulato-oblongis, longe supra medium 

 amplioribus, imo sensim angustissimis, in petiolo decurrentibus, apice in acumen an- 

 gustum acutum abrupte constrictis, marginibus subrevolutis sinuato-serratis, char- 

 taceis, supra pallidis, opacis, nervis plurimis rectis, parallele divergentibus, et in 

 nervum marginalem terminantibus, nervis costaque paullo prommentibus, venis 

 transversis tenuiter reticulatis, subtus fuscioribus, pallide brunnescentibus, sub- 

 opacis, nervis subtenuibus costaque brunnea prominentibus, venis immersis ; petiolo 

 subtenui, tereti, marginibus late foliosis reflexis, ochraceo-granulato, limbo 20plo 

 breviore : racemis plurimis fasciculatis, brevibus, e trunco enatis ; pedunculo brevi, 

 vel in nodum imbricatim bracteolatum reducto, 3-floro ; pediceUis tenuibus, calyce 

 3plo longioribus, imo 2-bracteolatis ; calyce primum subgloboso, demum in sepala 

 4^ aequalia ovata submembranacea fisso ; petalis 4, gequalibus, sepalis 5plo lon- 

 gioribus, oblongis, obtusis, imo latioribus, crassis, marginibus undulatis; andro- 

 3ro brevi, cupulari, appendiculis numerosis, pluriseriaHbus, in serie exteriore 

 longioribus, petalis 4plo brevioribus ; ovario infero, sepaUs 3plo breviore, granu- 

 latim maculato, semigloboso, 4-costato, scabridulo, 4-loculari. ovulis in 



pluribus 



quoque 



- inuiiuus, apice suspensis, vertice intra discum latum subconcavum; style 

 revi, late conico, stigmatis lobis 4, horizontaHter radiantibus. In alta Peruvia : 

 ^' '• '"^ ^^' ^^^^- Tarapota (S^pruce, 4541) ; Eio de la Yentana (Spruce). 



matedT - ~T ^^^* ^^^^' ^*^ ^^^^ elongated branches, terminated by several approxi- 



pedicels mT-^'^'J* reflexed margins 1^ in. long; the peduncle is about 3 lines long; 



broad • a 1 * \ ' *^^ ^^^^^^ "^* ^^"^^ ^^^^' ^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ' P^^^® '^ ^^^^^ ^^^^' ^ ^^^ 



' ^^^op^oram 5 lines in diam. ; fruit large, with an edible pulp. 



m, , 12. Ceecophora (Plate XXXVI. b). 



^lie outlines of th* v 



(page 172) ^^ remarkable and abnormal genus have been previously given 



H 



Sepala 



Cercophora, nob 



mbranala 'v!i ^^^*^' ^^^glne dcnticulata. Petala 6, sepalis 6plo longiora, subinsequlia, sub- 



membra 



*^'*«- Dis'cu^Tr^' Patentia, unguibus inter discmn 



^^cisum^ intna a- • ■'^ ^^^^-' annularis. Androphorum petalis \ix majus^ imo cupulatum, centro 



^^ ^^gulam ^^<u -1 ^ ^^ staminiferis brevibus numerosissimis 5-serialibus munitum, latere antico 



tectam ,, , Tr'"*""' carnosulam 





Tern 



mcurvatam pro majore parte 

 latam expansum : galea ligul 



mm compressum 



interna 



"■^I^ XXX. ^'^'^'' ^ongitudinaliter paralleHs 



lorum 



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