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nectivo crasse apiculato. Ovarium sessile, biovulatura. Stylus breviter filiformis, apice minute 

 stigmatosus. Legumen planum, coriaceo-sublignosum, obovato-orbiculatum, reticulato-veiiosura, 

 tardius bivalve. Semen ab apice pendulum, orbiculatum, cavitatem Implens, planum. Albumen 0, 

 Testa tenuis. Cotyledones carnosae, induratte, arete cohterentes ; radicuk brevissima, mammiforniis, 

 a hilo pavum remota. Plumula inconspicua. 



Species unica, P. copaifeka, Griseb. Arbor procera, glabra, ramis patentibus. StipuliB 

 squamasformes, caducre. Eolia alterna, abrupte pinnata, petiolo comnmni 1^-2-pol- 

 licari; foliola 2-juga, rarius 1-juga, opposita, oblique v. falcato-ovata, 3-6-pollicaria, 

 breviter et obtuse acuminata, basi rotundata v. cuueata, petiolulo 2-3 lin. longo, 

 coriacea, utrinque reticulato-pennivenia, pellucido-punctata. Paniculse terminales, 

 amplEe, parura ramosae, ramis iuterrupte spiciformibus 2-6-pollicaribus. Flores 

 parvi, sessiles, dissiti v. subfasciculati. Bractete inconspicuae. Bracteolas in cupulam 

 bilobam calycis tubum tequantem connatae. Calycis tubus vix \ lin. longus ; laciniEe 

 concavse, lineam longse, margine minute ciliolata3. Eilamenta ad marginem tubi 

 inserta, laciniis longiora, basi ciliato-birsuta. Antlieras ovato-oblongae, loculis 

 curvulis; conneetivi apiculus carnoso-conicus, Humirium quodammodo referens, 

 terminalis, sed anthera reversa inferus. Ovarium villosum. Legumen S^-i poll. Ion- 

 gum, 8-8|- poll, latum, basi subcuneatum, facie altera convexa, altera concava, venis 

 elevatis longitudinalibus reticulatis, ad apicem ct versus basin convergeutibus. 

 Semen maturum 3 poll, longum, 2^ poll, latum, undique fere 2 lin. crassum. 



Hab. Jamaica [Wilson); Isthmus of Panama [Seemann, Sutton Hayes), 



Tab. XL. fig. 1. Flower; fig. 2. Stamen with a back view of the anther; fig. 3. Anther, front view; 

 fig. 4. Ovary and Style; fig. 5. Ovary, longitudinal section, showing the ovules; fig. C. Ovule: 

 all the above magnified. Fig. 7. Fruit, natural size; fig. 8. the same, witli one valve removed, 

 showing the seed. 



