﻿310 MR. J. MIERS ON THE LECYTHIDACEiE 



Fig. 5. A section of the upper part of the shell, showing the difference in its opercular opening. 



Fig. 6. The incarcerated depressed operculum. 



Mg. 7. A cluster of five seeds, not quite ripe, the contents of one of the cells, fixed by their basal angle to 



a portion of the columeUa. There is here no trace of any pulp, which Berg asserts to surround 

 fhf. Rftftfls : the snecimen is in the Museum of the Linnean Society : all mt. size: 



Plate XXXYIII. 



Museum. One quarter- 



segment is taken away, to show the size of the cavity and the thickness of its shell. 



Museum, brought bv Triana from Nueva 



Plate XXXIX. 



Fig. 1. The pyxidium oi Lecythis urnigera, procured by myself and others in Eio de Janeiro, where they 



are sold in the open market. 

 Fig. 2. One of its seeds, suspended by its white fleshy funicle, from a drawing made by me while in the 



fresh state ; its nucleus is edible, and called Bupucaya : both nat. size. 



Plate XL. 



Fig. 1. The pyxidium oi Lecythis Velloziana, from a specimen belonging to Mrs. Fry, who obtained it 



in Rio de Janeiro; it agrees sufficiently with the rude drawing in the ' Flora Flumin ensis,' where 

 the operculum is wanting. 



Fig. 2. One of its seeds : both nat. size. 



Plate XLI. 



The pyxidium of Lecythis Bogotensis^ from a specimen from Bogota iu the British Museum : nat, size 



Plate XLII. 



Fig. 1. The pyxidium oi Lecythis vasiformis, from 2 specimens obtained in Rio de Janeiro by Mrs. Fry, 



and now in her possession. 

 Fig. 2. One of its seeds. 



Fig. 3. The pyxidium of Lecythis pilaris j from a specimen brought from Rio de Janeiro by Mrs- Fry^ 



the operculum has been lost : all nat. size. 



Plate XLIII. 



Fig. 1. The pyxidium oi Lecythis amplaj from a specimen in the Kew Museum^ sent from Antioqma, m 



New Granada. 

 Fig. 2, One of its seeds. 

 Fig. 3. Tlie pyxidium of Lecythis minor, from two specimens in my possession, said to come from Costa 



Rica, but probably from Cartagena, as it corresponds with Jacquin's drawing ; all nat. size. 



Plate XLIV. 



Fig. 1. The pyxidium of Leaf this validissima, from a specimen in the Kew Museum^ obtained fro^a * 



tree growing in Mauritius, and introduced from Guiana; another specimen is in the British 

 Museum, from Guiana, which exactly corresponds in size and shape with the ahove. 



Pig. 2. One of its seeds : both nat. size. 



