260 ON MARUPA, A NEW GENUS OF SIMARUBACER. 
in utroque sexu 10, petalis breviora, circa basin gynophori affixa, 
erecta: filamenta teretia, simplicia, glabra, distincta: anthere ovoidee, 
2-lobe, in 9 effzetz. ynophorus cylindricus, apice crenato-10- 
lobatus, concavus, immutato-persistens. Ovaria in 3 5, staminibns 
breviora, teretia, supra gynopho in centro erecto-conniventia, 
m 
multo majora, ovalia, concava, carnosa, patentia, decidua. Stamina 
tali 
inosus ter 
occlusa, hilo oblique effugiens ; cotyledones 2, zequales, reniformi- ob- 
onga, plano-convexa, carnosula, commissura chalazam ventralem 
ante. 
A, nob.: Odina Francoana Netto, in Ann. Sc. 
Nat., 5 ser. v. 85:—undique glaberrima: foliis bijugatim impari- 
pinnatis, sub-laxe patentibus, breviter petiolatis, foliolis obovatis, 
imo cuneatis, apice subacumin is, integris, supra viridibus, subtus 
rufule discoloribus, petiolulis brevi us; petalis albidis; ovario pube- 
scente ; stylis glabris. In prov. Minas Jeraés, in campis prope Rio 
San Francisco et in prov, Parad: non vidi. 
_ A tree 20—23 feet high, with leaves 6 inches long, and leaflets 
4 inches long, 10 lines broad, on petiolules 43 lines long; fruit 13 
inches long, 1 inch broad, on a gynophorus 1 line high, which is fur- 
nished at its base by 5 persistent sepals } line long. The wood, of 
I saw a sample in the Paris. Exposition, is of .a whitish colour, 
with darker streaks, with a fine grain, and easily worked. The fruits 
are eagerly sought by pigeons, who feed on them, and hence the tree 
is called Péo Pombo, This must not be confounded with the Yruta 
