MïltTACE.E. 379 



entire or serrate ; stipules minute, caducous ; flowers i in large 

 racemes springing from the trunk and branches; bracts and brac- 

 teoles caducous. (Trop, America. 2 ) 



60. Lecythis Loefl 3 — Flowers nearly of Go uratari, 3-6-merous; 

 ligule of andrœcium large petaloid, at apex once or twice (sometimes 

 contrary wise) cucullate. Andrœcium of Gouratari (or Gouroupita) \ 

 stamens interior at top of ligule sterile, anantherous or with small 

 effete anthers, sometimes (Allantoma*) aggregated in a mass. Germen 

 inferior or partly superior, 2-6-locular; style short and other cha- 

 racters of Gouroupita. Fruit clothed with externally adnate calyx, 

 globose or cupuliform, sometimes subcylindrical, coriaceous or woody ; 

 operculum on both sides conical or convex, more rarely (Eschweilera 5 ) 

 concave within. Seeds few, stipate on a thick fleshy arilliform funicle, 

 sometimes narrow elongate very rugose (Allantoma), externally gla- 

 brous or variously reticulate costate ; embryo undivided fleshy. — 

 Trees, sometimes immense ; leaves alternate, entire or serrate ; inflo- 

 rescence, 6 etc., of Gourowpita. (Trop. America, Africa, 1 trop, and 

 east, islands. 8 ) 



61. Bertholletia H. B.° — Flowers nearly of Lecythis ; calyx 

 gamophyllous, at first closed ; lobes very short to apex ; finally un- 

 equally 2— i-fid, deciduous. Petals unequal or subequal. Stamens 

 at top of cucullate ligule sterile. Germen inferior ; cells 4, 5, pauci- 

 ovulate. Fruit broadly subgiobose woody, to a large extent exter- 

 nally stipate to adnate receptacle and girt with its margin, dehiscing 

 by a small circumscissile operculum. Seeds oo (oftener about 20), 

 obovoidly 3-quetrous ; testa very hard rugose ; embiyo fleshy undi- 



1 Largo, "dirty white or pink." 6 Mart. DC. Prodi: iii. 293.— Miers, loc. cit. 



■ Spec. 6, 7. Berg, Limitea, xxvii. 461 ; xxxi. 165, 246, t. 34 C. 



261 ; Mart. FI. Surs. Myrt. 475, t. 57-59. —Bot. 6 Flowers often showy. 



Mag. t. 315S. 7 Query if natives of this country ? 



3 It. lS'J — L. Gen. n. 664.— J. Gen. 327.— ' Spec, about 50 (ex Miers 130). J acq. Â mer; 

 Lamk. 111. t. 476.— Pout. Diet. vi. 25.— DC. t. 109. — Aubl. Guian. t. 283-289.— A. S.-U.Fl. 

 Prodr. iii. 290. — Spach, Suit, à Bufon, iv. 185. — Bras. Mer. ii. 272. — Berg, Linncea, xxvii. 448 ; 

 J'',M)L. Gen. n. 6332.— Poit. Mem. Mus. xiii. 141, xxix. 258 ; Mart. Fl. Bras. Myrt. 479, t. 62-74. 

 t. 2, 3, 7.— H. En. Payer Fam. Nat. 369.- B. H. — Walk Sep. ii. 193. 



Gen. 723, n. 69.— Mieks, Trans, Linn. Sue. xxx. 9 PL JEquin. i. 122, t. 36.— Poit. Mem. Mus. 



162, 199, t. 34 A, 38-57.— Chytroma Miers, he. xiii. 148, t. 4-8.— DO. Prodr. iii. 293.— Endl. 



eit. 164, 229, t. 34 B.— ? Jugastrum Miers, foe. Gen. n. 6333.— ScKomh. Proc. Bot.Soc.i. 71, t. 



cit. 167, 275, t. 35A (stamens at top of ligule 3, 4.— H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 670.— B. H. (,',//. 



sometimes fertile?). 723, n. 70. — Miers, Trans. Linn.Soc. xxx. 161, 



4 Miers, he. cit. 170, 291, t. 36 A. 105, t. 33 C, 37. 



