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slender, bare for a length of 1| in., the floriferous portion being 

 |-1 in, long ; flowers many, alternate, crowded towards the 

 summit, on short pilose pedicels ; calycle ligulate, its external 

 margin extended to a length of 3 lines, sericeous outside, gla- 

 brous within; 2 acute sepals, seated within the calycle, right 

 and left, velvety sericeous outside, smooth inside, 2 lines long, 

 1| line broad, with the calycle persistent : corolla very sericeous 

 outside, yellow ; tube very narrow, somewhat funnel-shaped above, 

 6 lines long ; segments acute, subreflexed, 2\ lines long, f line 

 broad : rest as in the generic character : fruit oval, 2 lines long, 

 \\ line broad, crowned by the 5 raised glands and the remains of 

 the style ; albumen ovate, filling the cell of the nut, with the 

 usual embryo. 



QlTIXCUAMALlUM. 



This genus of the c Flora Peruviana' differs from Arjona in the 

 form of its calycle, in the shape of its calyx, and in its corolla 

 with stamens wholly exserted, and in its fruit enclosed in the 

 persistent calyx. 



Quinchamalium, Feuille. 



Flores hermaphroditi. Calyculus depresse cupularis, margine lacerato. 

 Calyx globosus, iaevis, 4-5-costatus, costis in dentes totidem ter- 

 minals, quorum unus externus paullo longior, persistens. Corolla 

 tubulosa ; tubus tenuiter cylindricus, subincurvus, ad faucem amplia- 

 tus ; segmenta 4-5, acute oblonga, subrecurva, extus sub apicem 

 ungue mucroniformi singulatim rauuita, aestivatione valvata. Stamina 

 4-5, fauci inserta, segmentis opposita ; filamenta compressa, antheris 

 paullo longiora, glabra; antherce oblongae paullulo supra basin affixae, 

 erectae, exsertae, apice subacutae, imo breviter cordatae, 2-lobae, lobis 

 sine connectivo lateralibus, antice longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. 

 Discus epigynus, subconvexus. Stylus filiforrais, stamina attingens ; 

 stigmata 3, parva, terminalia. Ovarium ovato-globosum, ad corollae 

 basin agglutinatum, 1-loculare; ovula 3, ex apice placentae centralis 

 filiformis suspensa. Fructus ovatus ; pericarpio fusco, tenui ; nux 



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laevis, tenuissime testacea, 1-locularis, 1-sperma. Semen conforme, 

 loculum implens; integumenta nulla; albumen carnosum ; embryo 

 inclusus ; radicula supera, teres ; cotyledones 2,compressse, orbiculares, 

 multo breviores. 

 Herbae, saepe fruticulosa, America australis; radices fusiformes 9 fibril- 

 losce ; caules plures, suberecti ; folia alterna, linear ia vel lineari- 

 lanceolata ; flores parvi f numerosi, scepius in copitulum terminate 

 con g est i. 



