MYBTACE^. 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.') 



60. Lecythis Loefl ^ — Flowers nearly of Gouratari, 3-6-merous; 

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

 contrarywise) cucuUate. Androecium of Couratari (or Gouroupita) ; 

 stamens interior at top of ligule sterile, anantberous 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 Gowoupita. Fruit clothed with externally adnate calyx, 

 globose or cupuliform, sometimes subcylindrical, coriaceous or woody ; 

 operculum on both sides conical or convex, more rarely [Eschweilera^) 

 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,* etc., of Gouroupita. (Trop, America, Africa,"^ trop. and 

 east, islands.^) 



61. BerthoUetia H. B.' — Flowers nearly of Lecythis; calyx 

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

 equally 2-4-fid, deciduous. Petals unequal or subequal. Stamens 

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

 ovulate. Fruit broadly subglobose 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 ; embryo fleshy undi- 



> Large, " dirty white or pink." ' Mart. DC. Frodr. iii. 293.— Miees, loc. cit. 



" Spec. 6, 7. Berg, Linnaa, xxvii. 481 ; xxxi. 165, 246, t. 34 0. 



261 ; Mart. M. Bars. Myrt. 475, t. 57-59.— Bot. " Flowers often showy. 



Mag. t. 3158. ' Query if natives of this country f 



''' It. WJ.—Jj. Gen. n. 664.— J. Gen. 327.— * Spec, ahout 50 (ex Miees 130). jAca..dmec. 



LamK. tU. t. 476.— Pom. ma. vi. 25.— DC. t. 109.- Aubl. &««««. t. 283-289.— A. S.-H.i?;. 



Frodr. iii. 290. — Spach, Suit.hBuffon, iv. 185. — Bras. Mer. ii. 272.— Berg, Limieea, xxvii. 448 ; 



' Endl. Gen. n. 6332.— PoiT. Mem. Mus. xiii. 141, xxix. 258 ; Mart. M. Bras. Myrt. 479, t. 62-74. 



t. 2, 3, 7.— H. Bn. payer Fom. Nat. 369.— B. H. — Walp. Rep. ii. 193. 



Gen. 723, n. 69.— Miers, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. ' PI. ^quin.i. 112, t. 36. — PoiT. Mem. Mus. 



162, 199, t. 34 A, 38-57.— CAjiframa Miees, loc. xiii. 148, t. 4-8.— DC. Prodr. iii. 293.— Endl. 



eit. 164, 229, t. 34 B. — ? Jugastrum Miees, loc. Gen. n. 6333. — Schomb. Proc. Bot.Soc.i. 71, t. 



cit. 167, 275, t. 35 A (stamens at top of ligule 3, 4. — H. Bit. Payer Pam. Nat.'670. — B. H. Gen. 



sometimes fertile f). 723, u. 70.— Miees, Trans, linn. Soc. xxx. 161, 



* Miees, loc. cit. 170, 291, t. 36 A. 195, t. 33 C, 37. 



