les, erecto-patentes , angulati, glabri, b i-v e l triflori; rEmcELLi unidori, angulaü, glabri, uuguicu-
lares, basi bracteae deciduae cicatrice notad. Calix e basi suburceolata quinquepartitus, laoiniis
valde inaequalibus, coriaceus, flavus; laciniae iuferiores quatuor abbreviatae, ovato-subrotundae,
margine tenuissime ciliatae, caeterum glabrae; summa quinta multoties longior solitoque latior,
orato- oblonga, obtusa, naviculari - concava , integerrima, glabra, margine tarnen tenuiter ciliata,
coroUam ante anthesin bis fere ambiens, postea reflcxo - patens, basi extensa in calcar ipsa brevius
conicum, obtusiusculum, parum curvatum. Petals abbreviata, vix dimidiam antheram aequantia,
glabra, tenera, (lava; intermedium extimum lateralia amplectensparumque longius, oblongum, acu-
dusculum, carinato -concavum , lateralia parum angusdora, obtusa, yenulosa, plana. Stamen fertile
congenerum; pilamextum breye, canaliculatum, sursum extensum in antherae connecdyum lineari-
oblongum parum curvatum, naviculari - concavum , apice cucullato-clausum obtusum, coria'ceum,
crassum et glabrum; stamina sterilia non observata. Ovarium calyce inclusum, parum obhquum,
ovato-subtrigonum, sericeo-villosum, trüoculare loculis uniovulads. Sinus cylindricus, adscendens,
glaber, stigmate subcapitato.
Crescit in Pertwia: H a en ke. 1j
Explic. Tab. LXXXIX. Fig. 1. Calyx cum genitalibus, resecta lacinia superiore. 2. Petalum laterale et
3, Petalum intermedium, aucta. 4. ïlee complétua magn. nat. 6. Ovarium calycis basi persistente insidens,
auctum.
8 . VOCHYSIA PYRAMIDALIS, f Tab. XC.
V. foliis opposltis quatemisve e basi subcordata vel rotundata oblongo-lanceo-
latis acumiuatis subtus costato- venosis aeque ac ram i, petioli pedunculique tenuiter
cinerascenti-tomentosis, racemis terminalibus solitariis pyramidatis, ovariis glabris.
Arbor elegans, vigindpedalis et major, cortice laevigato cinereo-fuscescente, ramis in comam
densam late ovato - globosam expansis; ramuli uldmi subflexuosi, teretiusculi vel obsolete subtetra-
goni, cortice vestiti tenui unito cinnamonieo-fused, juniores pilis minuds adpressis cinereo-fusces-
cendbtis dense tomentosi, adultiores calvescentes. Folia opposita vel rarius quatema, decussata
sed ramulis versus solem vergentibus subdisdeha, distanda pollicarivel sesquipollicari, petiolata.'oblong,
i lanceolata, apice longe acuminata, ipso acumine tarnen obtuso et per nervum medium prominentem
mucronato, basi rotundata vel subcordata, integerrima, supra glabra, lineis minutissimis punctisque
impressis irregulariter subreticulata vel novella pubescenda, subtus nervo medio et venis subpa-
rallelis intra marginem combinatis valde prominentibus percursa, venulisque inter eas reticulata,
pilis brevissimis exsiccatione cinereo-fuscescentibus, et quidem densius versus nervum medium,
subpulverulento-tomentosa , quatuor ad sex pollices longa, duos circiter lata; pbtiou unguiculares,
semiteretes, supra canaliculad, tomentosi. Stifulab lineari-subdlatae, integerrimae, utrinque to-
mentosae, membranaceae, deciduae. Gemmae axillares, perulatae, ovatae, tomentosae. Racemi
terminales, solitarii, composid, erecd, pyramidati; eachis basi teretiuscula, sursumangulata, recta,
stricta aeque ac ipsi pedunculi tenuiter pubescens, quatuor ad octo pollices longa; pedcncoli
sparsi appröximad, ereeto - patentes, inferiores longiores , multi- (sex-ad decern-) flori, angulad ,