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Superioribus lore et fruetu arcte afinis, habitu qm 
maxime aliena. : 
‘ Herba ramosay pilie brevioribus: antionlati. Mexuosis 
apice glandulosis adspersa, pilisque simplieibus rigidis-pa: 
tenlissimis (in ramis majoribus): sesquilineam longis -hor- 
rida. Summitates tantum plantae nobis adsunt, Rami te- 
retes, fistulosi, patuli, iterum ramulosi, ad nodos flexuosi. 
Internodia bipollicaria. Folia peiiolata, cordato-Iate ovata, 
lobata, serrata, membranacea, nervis opacis, 13 poll, lon- 
la, 13 poll, lata, petiolo $ poll. longo; (inferiora caulina 
fors majora). Supra sunt plana, pilis rigidis sparsis hor- 
vida; subtus nervis lateralibus subternis a petiolo, venis- 
que totidem a costa media utrinsecus orientibus leviter 
prominulis notata, pilis rigidis raris in nervis obsita, se- 
cundum nervos pilis laminae adpressis instructa. Costa 
media dilatata in similem transit petiolam. Racemi ebra- 
eteati, densiflori, scorpioides, simplices, birsutissimi, ter- 
minales et axillares, more Boraginearum symphysi pedun- 
euli cum ramo exitraaxillares; florentes foliis breviores. 
Rlores brevissime pedicellati, duplici serie secundi, Ca- 
lyx 5-partitus; Jaciniae inaequales, Iineari-spathulatae et 
spathulatae, altera maxima extrorsum spectans cuneate- 
obovata, omnes obtusae, hirsutissimae, intus glabrescentes. 
- Corolla campanulata, calyce paulo longior, 3 eirciter lineas 
longa, Hmbo inaequaliter 5-lobo, lobis xotundatis obtusis; 
tenera, reticulato-nervosa, extus ad nervos pilosula. Ge- 
nitalia longe exserta, corolla fere duplo longiora. Fila- 
wenta inferiori corollae inserta, filiformia, glabra, apice 
subulata; antherae minutae, elliptieae, dorso affıxae, ver- 
satiles. Germen oblongo-ellipticum, sursum villis longis 
barbatum; stylus filiformis, fere ad basin usque bipartitus, 
erecio-pilosus, ramis supera parte glabrescentibus. Cap- 
sula ellipsoideo-globosa, calyce brevior, axi sesquilineari; 
