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Pimenta acuminata: foliis ellipticis, cuspidatis, punctis pellucidis creberrimis. 



Eugenia calyculata: arbuscula glaberrima, cortice albicante, foliis ellipticis, lucidis 

 creberrime pellucidis- punctatis (40 cm. long,, 5 lat., pet. 5 mm.); flores albi, parvi, 

 odorati, calyculo brevi persistente, cupuliformi (bracteolis 3 cohaerentibus) suffulti, 

 racemulos axillares oppositifloros constituentes, pedicillis basi bracteolatis; calyx pu- 

 bescens, 4-lobus; petala 4; bacca oblonga, atroviolacea, forma et magnitudine olivae 

 parvae, monosperma, subpulposa, amara, limbo calycino coronata, cotyledonibus in 

 unum concretis. 



E. tetraspenna (Guasävara): arbuscula parva, foliis elliptico-oblongis, acutis, coria- 

 ceis, pellucido-punctatis, 4 4 cm. long., 5 lat., pet. 4.; racemuli axillares, floribus pen- 

 tameris; bacca lutea, ovata, subdepressa, 3 — 4-sperma, seminibus obovatis, erectis in 

 pulpa nidulatis eique adliaerentibus, testa crustacea, embryone tegumento membra- 

 naceo adbacrente, cotyledonibus distinctis. 



E. paniculata: arborescens, foliis lanceolatis vel ellipticis, breviter petiolatis, pellu- 

 cido-punctatis; racemi oppositi in corymbum terminalem aggregati, floribus 4 meris; 

 bacca globosa, monosperma, cotyledonibus conferruminatis, folia 9 cm. long., 3 lat. 



E. costata (Serrasuela) : arbor cortice rimosa, ramis cylindricis, glabris, foliis coria- 

 ceis , ovato-oblongis, breviter et obtuse acuminatis, supra lucidis, nervis conspicuis 

 prope margines arcuatim connexis, limbo pellucido-punctato, marginibus recurvis, 

 13 cm. long., 6 lat., pet. 5 — 6 mm.; flores subsessiles, in ramulorum apice congregati, 

 5-meri, calyce bibracteolato, semigloboso, lanuginoso, lobis ovatis; bacca globosa, 

 calycis limbo reflexo coronata, subexsuca, nempe sarcocapio tenui luteo fructu Pi- 

 mentae acris redolente sub epicarpio coriaceo pubescente costato donata, costis 

 epicarpii tumidis, apicem fructus non attingentibus; semen unicum, testa lignosa tenui 

 inclusum, embryone globoso, indiviso, fr, diametro 2 ] / 2 cm. 



Psidiastrum dubium: frutex foliis coriaceis, oblongis, acutis, basi angustatis, pellu- 

 cido-punctatis; flores axillares, racemulosi, 4-meri, calycis lobis 2 oppositis lateriori- 



bus; bacca dura, sicca, scaberrima, nodulosa, seminibus oo, in nudula inordinatim 

 nidulatis, ictu insecti cuiusdam vanidis 



Cionandra angustiloba: caules gracillimi, puberuli; folia profunde 5 loba, lobis 

 lanceolatis sinubus latis, lateralibus, inaequaliter subbilobis. 



Tumera ovata: foliis ovatis, obtusis, velutinis, vix denticulatis; flores axillares, 

 epice pedunculi longi, articulati, ebracteati. 



Cereus quadricostatus : arboreus, ramis 4-costatis, diffusis, spinis fasciculatis, radian- 

 tibus, acicularibus, fuscis, saepe 7 longis cum 2 brevibus inferioribus ; flores rubri, tubo 

 calycino ultra ovarium producto, spinuloso ; bacca umbüicata, ovi anserini forma et 

 magnitudine, extus purpurea, ocellis spinulosis sparsis, intus viridescens; embryo cur- 

 vus, dicotyledoneus. 



C. leiocarpus : arboreus, ramis erectis, 2 — 3-metralibus, 9 (rarius 8) costatis glau- 

 cescentibus, ad apicem albolanatis, spinis acicularibus fasciculatis, lutescentibus, saepe 

 9, superiore longiore; flores rubri in sicco, tubo calycino ultra ovarium parum pro- 

 ducto; bacca purpurea, depressa, laevissima. 













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Opuntia repens : caules prostrati, articulis parvis, 9 cm. long., 2 vel parum ultra 

 lat-, puberulis, spinis fasciculatis 4 — 3 — 2, subaequalibus albidis, acutissimis, 16 mm. 

 pulvinaribus tomentosulis; flores e flavo rubentes; fructus parvus, 2 cm. long., 1. in 

 diam. , ocellis sparsis, pubescentibus, incomibus. 



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Viscum Randiae: £, in Randia aculeata parasiticum, ramis articulatis, tetragonis, 

 foliis spathulato-oblongis, crassulis ; flores in pedunculis axillaribus glomerati, sessiles, 

 liberi, calyce globuloso, apice tridentato, dentibus adpressis, vix conspicuis, stigmate 

 punctiforme; bacca globosa, mucilaginosa, monosperma, lutea, 3 — 4 mm.; petala 



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