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Stamina medio tubo inserta, antheris lineari- 

 lanceolatis, rigidis, intus reyolulis, apice membra- 

 naceo lanciformi, basi subsagitCatis. Ovaria ob- 



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longo conica, vertice elongato, glandulis 2 ovato- 

 Qrbicularibus opposids basi adstantibus , ^ylus 

 bliformis , duobus cruribus ex ovariis adscendcns, 

 sligma subpyramidatum, apiculalum, basi lobulis 

 5 obtusis umbraculiforme terminalum. 



Habitat i?i canipis altis ad Rio de ContaSy Jil' 

 lam in iuteriore Frov, HaJiiejisis* 



3^, Bchites illnstrls Veil. 



Flor. flum. Ill, lab, 49. 



E. pubescenti-velulina, foliis oblongls velovalo- 

 oblongis, breviter acutatis, basi rolundalis vcl sub- 

 cordatis, costatisj praeserlim sublus incano-velu- 

 lino^hirlis, racemis terminalil)us paucifloris, calycis 



laciniis lanceolato-subulatis, glabris, coroHac gla- 

 brae tuba e medio infLindibuliformi, limbi lobis 

 inacquilalero-oboYalis, hinc aculis, undulatis, foUi- 

 culis erectis dodrantalibus, glabris, torulosis. 



Radix tuberosa, lignosa, fusca, caules 3 — 4 

 emiuens. Caul is suiTruticosus, robustus, iufcnic 

 simplex, superne interdum divisus, teietiusculus, 

 pedalis et ultra, velutino-pubescens, ramulis no- 

 vellis incano-tomentosis. Folia plus minus re- 

 mota, brevissime peliolata , cauli appressa, sub- 

 coriacea, ovato-oblonga vel oblonga , brevissime 

 acutala, basi rotundata aut subcordata, paralleli- 

 nervia, 2J — 3 poll, longa, 11— -2^ lata, supra 



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