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saepissime acuta, Sinu acuto separala, serius non profundins 
partita. Petala 4-5, perigyna. ‚Stamins plurima, perigyna, 
libera, praefloratione introfexa; antherae ovales, dorsn supra 
basin fixae, biloculares, longitwdinaliter dehiscentes. Stylus 
1; sigma simplex, rarius suheapitatum. DBacea calyce coro- 
nala, poly- v. pleiosprrma. Seminn renafa v. hippocrepica, 
testa saepissime ossea, rarius memhbranacen ohterta. Embryo 
exalbuminosus, curvafus, uneinafus, v. suhspiralis; radienla 
elongata ; eotylis Irevissimis, 
1. M. Barneoudii Berg; prostrata, suhrepeus; ramulis pe- 
dunculisque bifariam puberulis; foliis parvis, hreviter petie- 
latis, coriaceis, ovalihus, obtusis, glahris, junlorihus ahseure 
pellneido - punetatis, supra nitidis, rugulosis, aveniis, suhtns 
adıltis epidermi a mesophylie soluta ballatis; pedunenlis axil- 
laribus, solitarlis, folio duplo longiorihus; germine 3-Ioeu- 
lari, glabro; lacca ovali, polysperma, sepalis 4—5, linea- 
rilms, obfusis, erectis coronata. 5. 
Myrtus aummularia Barneond in Gay. Hist. Chil, Bot. 
I. p. 379, nee Poiret. 
Fratieulus longe prostratns, ramis adseendentihus. Folia 
opposita, superiora suhtns saepe trinervia; petiole 1/2’ lange; 
lamina 3— 5°" long., 1, — 2," lat; nervo medio supra 
impresso, subtus prominuleo, Pedunenli fructiferi 4 — 5 
long., folio parvo fulti,. Flores (fide Barn.) alhi, parvi. Pe- 
tala 5, glabra, obtusa, Stamina numerosa. Bacen 3 long, 
braeteolis 2, lineari- spathulatis, 3/, — 1 long, stipata, $6- 
palis %/, — 1 long. saepeque stylo 2 longo, stigmate ca- 
pitato instructo coronafa. Semina parva, renata (v. speeimen 
originale fruetif. in hb. Berol,). 
Sepalig petalisyue saepe (non semper) 5, staminihus (fe- 
ste Barn.) nnmerosis generic a Myrteola Nummulariı 
