VOCHYSIACE^E. 



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instead of glabrous. Leaves lanceolate-elliptical, 2 J to 3i inches long, 

 abruptly acuminate, acute at the base, glandless, glahrate, when young 

 sparingly and minutely pubescent, especially on the midrib under- 

 neath, chartaceous in texture, entire, or repand-undulate, prominently 

 feather-veined, somewhat lucid above : petioles 7 to 9 lines long, 

 glandless. Flowers sessile. The very immature fruit elliptical, com- 

 pressed, apiculate, canescent, half an inch long. 



Ord yochysiace^e. 



1. VOCHYSIA, Juss. 

 1. Yochtsia tucanorum, Mart. & Zucc. 



Vochysia tucanorum, Mart. & Zucc. Nov. Gren. & Spec. Bras. 1, p. 142, t. 85. 



Hab. Brazil, near Rio Janeiro ; common on the Corcovado. 



This is the V. emarginata of Pohl ; but scarcely of Poiret, whose 

 plant is described as having merely opposite leaves, according to Vahl 

 only two inches in length. 



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