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una cum 5-narüis reperi, quare sigrum hoc haud sufficere potest et valde 
suspicor, fore ut clb. Junghuhnius Spondias Mangiferam Pers. pro Wirtge- 
nia decandra sumserit. 
Quoad speciem cf. Hsskl. 1. cc. et Sp. acuminata Rxb. W. et A. Prir. 
1. 173. 534., cui forsan synonyma habent ipsi autores Solenocarpum indicam 
W.et A. 1. c. 171. 529. (Wip. Rprt. I. 556. 2. et 550. 5900. 1. Endl. Gen. 
5900.), sed folia remote crenata opponunt. j 
Arbor 30— 40 ped. alta, trunco tereti cinereo albo, ramis pa- 
tenti-erectis crassis virescenti-cinereis, cortice crasso, ligno albido, 
tubo medullari crasso, medulla viridi fareto; folia sparsa pinnata cum 
impari; rhachis basi incrassata glaucescens, cicatricem triangularem 
subcordatum in ramis efficiens, supra basin teres, supra rubens sub- 
tus viridis lepidote tomentosus; feliola 5—6-juga breviter petiolu- 
lata ovato-oblonga integerrima basi rotundata aut plerumque acuto- 
atfenuafa apice in acumen tenue obliguum producta 3 — 6 poll. longa, 
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rescentiam valvatim conniventia, flosculum oblongum (nec globosum) si 
stentia, erecta dein reflexa margineque revoluta e luteo - pallide - virescen- 
tia; stamina 8 brevissima, germine (cum stylis) dimidid breviora, erecta, 
antheris bilocularibus; germina 4 oblonga superne in unum concreta 
eylindricum pro ratione majusculum monospermum, stylis totidem brevi- 
bus crassiusculis obtusis erectis coronata; styli petalis oppositi; annulus 
nectarioides angustissimus obsoletus; fructus? .. . 
Wirtgenia decandra Jungh. mss. Magnitudo arboris, habitus, folia, 
vires et virtufes omnino prioris, cum qua structuram organorum fructifi- 
cationis alienam non respicientes plane eandem duceremus; inflorescentia 
laxe paniculata, ramis primariis trunci erumpens, ramulis paniculae ceras- 
sis omnino nudis laevibus succosis, ramulis läteralibus remotis horizon- 
tali -patulis, vamo primario verticali (centrali) geniculatim immersis, flori- 
bus in ramulis remote spicatis glomerulatis sessilibus nempe tern’s, qua- 
ternis pluribusve, pedicello brevissimo crasso cylindrico sufultis; calyx 
minutus 5-dentatus, dentibus brevibus obtusiusculis; petala sepalis alterna 
basi lata ovata acuta planiuscula (margine haud revoluta) patula Chaud 
reflexa) primum valvatim conniventia, fleseulum globosum , piso dimidio 
minorem (sed speciei antecedentis plus duplo majorem) sistentia candida; 
stamina 10 erecta, tuberculis nectarüs alterna cum petalis sub annulo in- 
serta, filamentis brevibus, antheris 2-locularibus; nectarium annulare 
eximium pro ratione maximum in. tubercula 10 elevatum basin germinis 
eingens; germina supera 5 monostyla, petalis opposita basi subconnata, 
stylis totidem brevibus crassis erectis obtusis coronata; fructus? . . 
Species uti supra commemoravi certe ad Sp. mangiferam Pers. Wght. 
Arn. Prär. I. 173, 533. DeC. Prdr. II. 75. 3. pertimet! — (Wlp. Rprt. 
1. 556. 5920. 1.) 
