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anthere omnium biloculares loculis divaricatis rima 
longitudinali apertis; discus bypogynus brevissimus‘ 
integer ovarii basin cingens; ovarium ovatum gla- 
brum uniloculare (placentarum insertione et natura 
pseudoquadriloculare) multiovulatum, stylus sim- 
plex filitormis stigmate terminali infundibuliformi 
sen crateriformi subbilamellato. Capsula calyce 
persistente subinclusa ovato-elliptica unilocularis 
bivalvis, placentis coadunatis a valvarum linea media 
solutis columellam centralem simulantibus; semina 
plurima minuta elliptica vel subglobosa tuberculato- 
rugulosa, . 
Sectione et analysi accuratiori plantam ad Cyr- 
tandreas pertinere perspexi, quam. in schednla plan- 
tarym Abyssinicarum sect. I. nr. 310. ad Scerophu- 
larivarum tribom Gratioleas retuleram. 
1. Craterostigma plantagineum Hochst. (Herb. 
Abyss. Un. itin. sect. I. nr. 310). Planta -acaulis 
humilis, radix perennis faseiculata rhizomate brevi 
perpendienlari vel obliquo, folia ovata vel ovato- 
subcordata 7— 9 nervia, supra glabra subtus et in 
margine pilis hirtis dense vestita, in petiolum 
latum breviuseulum attenuata; scapi 2--3 (vel plu- 
ves) digitales vel breviores quadranguli hirti flores 
. paucos subeymosos gestantes; cymz bracteoss brac- 
teis oppositis lanceolatis; peduneuli hirti inferiores 
bracteis ssepissime longiores, superi plerumque bre- 
viores — interdum pedanculi elongati et scapo valde 
abbreviato, vix semipollicari, multo longiores — 
calyces hirti dentibus subovatis, corolla ut videtur 
