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sus, brunticus. Folia rcmotiuscuLi, rigltlc mcm- 

 Lranacc.i, ovnto-oblonga , apice in acumen breve 

 ohlusum prodiirta, biisi subcuncata , t> — 7 poll, 

 loriga , 2 — 31 I^ita , utrinque glaberrima , supra 

 suico medio instructa , transverse lineata , subtus 

 statu sicco pailide cinnamomea, nervo medio pro- 

 minent e , nervis lateral ibus prominulls veiiisque 

 transversls fuscis, parum reticulato-vcnosa. VetioU 

 f, _ S I'm. longi, canallrulaii, glabri, compressius- 

 ciili. Racem u s termin.dis in specimine uiiico 

 suppctente, subdicliotornus, multiflorus. Pcdnnculi 

 cum pediccilis (i — S lin. longis puberuli. Urnc^ 

 ieolarum delapsarum vestigia. Calyx protunde 

 Opailitus, e\ius basi pubenilus, laciniis ovalis, 

 subtruncato-obtusis, veiuilosis, tenuiter membrana- 

 ceis, tribus mcijoribus 3 — 3i lin, longis, imbrica- 

 tis, Ligulae calycinae obsoletae. (Corolla ma- 

 juscula 2i poll, longa , tubo angustissinio , non 

 constrirto, aeipiali, superne sensiin in infundibuhnn 

 Iranseunte, limbi lobis ovato-orbicuhuil)U^. Sta- 

 mina ima basi intra cahcem inserla , (tut funs 

 angiistissiinis, hneari-lanceolalis , acutis , sagillalis. 

 Ovaria ovato-oblonga , cincta annulo continuo 

 glandulartun, ipsorum medium superanle, bupernc 

 undulato, shjhts i)revi5simus , ca]>illarls, duobus 

 (iMitilnis ex ovariis surgons, superne intumcscens, 

 $ti":mii sub-bilobum , lobis a-^^ilutinalis lincari-ob- 

 longis, obtusis. 



Habitat in syivit Japurensibus Prov. Rio Mf^^ro, 

 l)i*Tert ab K. Cururu legilima foliis ovato-ob- 

 longis, versus basin minus contractis , areolis in 

 foliorum pagina inferiore minus ronspicuis, calycc 

 nonnihil majoro, corollae tubo ab imo basi usque 

 ad ortum infandi!>uli angustiorc, non conlracto, 

 ^^t.inunilius ima hn^'x intra ipsun^ calvceni inscrus, 

 vi nn eolo gl.indularnni o\aria non superante. 

 \tt,iMien ulti riorihus observatioiiibus indagandum 

 >idctur, annc baecce forma revcra spccilicc ditlcral. 



