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Flores parvi, nunc hermaphroditi, saepius polygamo-dioici. Calyx parvus, 

 campanulatus, limbo 5-fido, persistens, demum auctus, et ad fructum 

 laxe accretus. Petala 5, subparva, basi vix nexa, sestivatione quin- 

 cuncialiter imbricata. Stamina 5 ad 30, saepe subpentadelpha, basi 



petalorum inserta, glabra, in & pauca, aequilonga, et uniserialia, in 



c? plurima, bi- triserialia, inaequilonga ; filament a subulata, subin- 

 curva ; antherte didymo-globosae, dorso affixae, longitudinaliter utroque 

 latere dehiscentes ; pollen minutum, globosum, tririmosum. Discus 

 epigynus, annularis vel planiusculus. Ovarium imperfecte inferum, 

 calyce sublibero tectum, 3 loculare ; ovula in quoque loculo solitaria, 

 suspensa. Fructus oblongus, vel oblongo-pyramidatus calyce aucto 

 laxe tectus, lobis calycinis coronatus, siccus, indehiscens, apice disci 

 rotundatus ; nux conformis, tenuiter testacea, vix ossea, fragilis, abortu 

 1-locularis; dissepimenta membranacea, latere adpressa. Semen ob- 

 longum, dorso convexum, subeompressum, apicem versus sensim at- 

 tenuatum, funiculo brevi suspensum; integumentum membranaceum, 

 fuscum, raphe longitudinali notatum. Embryo in albumen carnosum 

 sat copiosum immersus ; radicula supera, tenuiter teres, paulo in- 

 curva ; cotyledones 2, minutae, inferae. 

 Arbores aut suffrutices plerumque Brasilienses 9 ramosce ; folia alterna, 

 oblonga, scepius- subs errata, petiolata ; racemi axill ares, breves ; flores 

 parvi, pedicellati, bracteolati, scepe spicatim congesti. 



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Sectio 1. Fructif erce , flores hermaphroditi 1 . 



1. B. lanceolata, nob. — Symplocos lanceolata, A. DC. Prodr. 

 viii. p. 253 ; Miguel in Fl. Bras. fasc. xvii. p. 29, tab. 10.— Sym- 

 plocos oblongifolia, Casaretto, Stirp. Bras. Decad. p. 31 ; A. DC. 

 Prodr. viii. p. 673. la Brasilia : v. s. in herb, meo (6048 et 18476), 

 Minas G-eraes ( Claussen). 



B. tethandea, nob. — Symplocos tetrandra, Mart, in Syst. 

 Med. Bras. p. 49 ; Miquel in Flor. Bras. 1. c. p. 33, tab. 14. 

 Brasilia : v. v. et sicco in herb, meo (4556), in mont. Organe 

 fructu immaturo. 



In 



3. B. estbellensis, nob. — Symplocos estrellensis, Casaretto, 

 I c p. 32 ; A. DC. 1. c. p. 673. In Brasilia, prov. Rio de Janeiro : 

 »• v. et sice, in herb, meo (4228 et 4554), in montib. Organens. 



4. B. bhamnieolia, nob. — Symplocos rbamnifolia, A. DC. I. c. 

 P- 253 ; Miquel, I. c. p. 33.— Symplocos variabilis, Mart, in Flor. 

 Bras. I c. p. 30, tab. 11. In Brasilia, prov. Rio de Janeiro et 

 Bahia : v. v. et sice, in herb, meo (4091), in flore, et abundaus et in 



1 Plene olim ad genus Scyrtocarpus, nob. relate. 



