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nerviis; pedunenulis .axillaribus et suhterminalibus, petiolum 
subaegnantibus, 3 — 6-Nloris y. oblitteratione 1 — 2-Aoris; 
germine bilocalari; bacea suhglohosa,. 1-sperma, sepalis in- 
arqualibus, rolundatis, concavis coronata. #. 
‚Variat : . 
«. corymbosa; foliis longiusenle petiolatis, obtuse bre- 
viterque acuminatis; Roribus corymbosis. 
Rami teretes, laeves, wlahri; ramuli eompressi; noyelli 
ad fiorendi tempus desunt. Lepides magnitudine valde aucta 
pi eupulati, brevissime stipitati, apice in diseum amplum, 
eoncavum, oblongum v. hemisphaericum explanati apparent, 
Folia opposita, sievata, supra atrovirentia; petioloe 2 — 3% 
long.; lamina 16 —— 22 long., 7 — 11’ lat.; nervo medie 
supra sulcato, subtus prominente; venis atroque latere eirei- 
ter 8, ntringne vix visibilibus. Corymbi rarius subferminales, 
rhachi 1/,— 2" long., pedicellis ® — 3%” long., basi bractea 
minima, oyata fultis. Alahastra turbinata, 17” long, hracteo- 
lis 2, ovatis, minimis stipata. ° Bacca 6” diametro, striate. 
Semen magnum. Embryo homogeneus (v. in hh. Versted,, 
no, 4) 
6. paueiflora; foliis in petiolum deonrrentibus, aente 
et longiuscnle acnminatis; pedunculis 1-—3-Horis. 
Folia 11/,—%1/g” long, 7 — 12 lat; petiolo Il — 
2" long. Alabasıra X long. Germen 1“ long., multiova- 
latum, Sepala 4, 2 majora 1 — 9/5 long, 2 minora Y/y— 
1jg‘ Jong. Petala 4, subrotnnda, eoncava, glahra, 11/37 
long. Stamina fere 9’ long. Stylus 2%/,” long. (v. in hi. 
Versted., no. 25). 
Habitat im monte Barba in Costa Rica, Hor. Majo. (Dr, 
Versted.). 
308 E. obversa Berg 1. ce. no. 21. 
Habitat in Brasiliae prov. St. Pauli (Selle). 5. 
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