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aenteque, saepe suboblique acuminatis, adnltis glabris, supra 
Taevigatis , nitidis, subtus opaeis, elevato-, impellucido- pan- 
cialis, venosis, limbinerviisz floribus glomeratis, ad nodos 
ramorum vetlorum defoliatos; alabastris subglobosis, obtusis, 
hracteolis &, oblongis, membranaceis stipatis; germine bilo- 
eulari; calyce demum inaequaliter 4— 5 -parlito; petalis 4, 
snbroinndis, 9. . 
Rami tereli-compressi; ramuli subtelragoni, superne 
compressi. Folia opposita, obscnra, novella ad florendi tem- 
pus desunt; petiolo 3” long. ; lanina 29 — 42" long, 12— 
18’ lat.; nervo medio supra impresso,. subfus elevato; venis 
tepnissimis, reelis, subpatulis, supra vix visibilibus, subtus 
prominalis. Gtomeruli 3—6-fori, Alabastra serivea, 2% 
long., hracteolis 1 long. -stipata. Hypanthiam supra germen 
4-oyulatum valde produetum. Petala eiliata, 3/, long. 
‘1° Jat. (v. in herh, Berol.). 
Habitat in Guiana inglica (Rich, Schomburgk).. 
11. M. Spruceana Berg 1. ec. no. 8, 
Habitat in Brasiliae prov. Rio Negro (RB. Spruce, coll. 
no. 1505). 
1%. M, obtusa Berg; glahra; foliis coriaceis, subsessilibus, 
ovatis v, rolundo-ovatis, obiuso acutatis, basi ohtnsis, saepe 
subeordatis, opacis, utrinque elevato-, primam obscure pel- 
Aneido-punetatis, subtus venosis, sublongiori a margine di- 
stantia arenatiım limbinerviis; eymis folio longioribus, axilla- 
ribns et subterminalibus, 1 — 2-nis, interdum contractione 
internodioram 6-nis, simplieiter v. bis (ripartitis, ramis 3- 
Hloxis, flore centrali sessili; alabastris obovoideis, obtusis; 
germine %-Ioeulari; ealyco demum irregulariter 4-partito; 
pelalis 4, obverse oblongis. 5. 
Calyptranthes obtusa Beuth, in Hook, Jonrn, of Bot. 
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