242 - PHANEROGAMIA. 



inches long when full grown, membranaceous, glabrous, mostly 

 rounded and slightly oblique at the base, on partial petioles of 2 or 3 

 lines in length ; or the terminal one when present with a stalk an 

 inch long. Panicles many-flowered, axillary, much shorter than the 

 leaves, compressed. Flower-buds crowded on the extremity of the 

 stout branchlets of the panicle, on very short pedicels. Calyx silky- 

 puberulent, 2 lines in diameter, of a thick and firm texture, four-cleft ; 

 the lobes orbiculate, imbricated. The unexpanded corolla scarcely 

 exceeding the calyx ; the petals orbicular or broadly ovate, silky- 

 pubescent outside, imbricated in aestivation, free from and longer than 

 the glabrous, cup-shaped or urceolate, eight-toothed stamineal tube, 

 which bears 8 sessile and nearly included anthers, alternate with its 

 lobes. Hypogynous disk annular or cup-shaped, not so high as the 

 four-celled ovary. Style short: stigma peltate and disk-shaped. 

 Ovules in pairs in each cell. Immature fruit obovate, nearly an inch 

 long, 3-4-celled, of a rather soft texture, it is uncertain whether 

 baccate or capsular. 



5. MOSCHOXYLUM, A. Juss. 



1. MOSCHOXYLUM RlCHARDIANUM, A. Juss. 



Moschoxylum Richardianum, A. Juss. Meliac. p. 86 j Walp. Kepert. 1, p. 433. 

 Trichilia Richardiana, A. Juss, in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. 2, p. 78. 



Hab. Brazil, near Rio Janeiro. 



2. MOSCHOXYLUM ELEGANS, A. Juss. 



Mosclwxylum elegans, A. Juss. Meliac. 1. c. p. 87, t. 19, f. 19. 

 Trichilia eleyans, A. Juss, in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. 2, p. 79, t. 98. 



Hab. Brazil ; with the preceding species : both apparently not un- 

 common. 



