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nervo glaberrima, adulta glabrescentia, subtus rufo-tomentosa, pilos 

 stellatos magnos praecipue ad nervos venasque gerentia, supra nervis 

 venisque immersis ideoque foliis t bullatis, subtus manifesto prominentibus, 

 venis in nervis lateralibus rectangulariter impositis, nervis lateralibus 

 9 — 12, marginem petentibus demum margine eleganter inter sese curvato- 

 conjunctis, laxe reticulars. Inflorescentia racemosa, axillaris, 6 cm longa, 

 circa 6-flora, rhachis inflorescentiae dense rufo-tomentosa; flores 1,7 cm 

 Iongi, pedicello 1,5 cm longo, rufo-tomentoso; calyx cupuliformis, 6 mm 

 altus, 6 mm latus, truncatus, margine minute distincteque denticulatus, 

 papyraceus, extus dense fusco-tomentosus. intus flavescenti-pilosus; corolla 

 5-partita, tubo circa 3 mm longo, glabro, lobis multo breviore, lobis in 

 aestivatione valvatis, papyraceis, lanceolatis, apice acutis, extus ad- 

 presse flavescenti-stellato-pilosis, intus in parte 3 / 4 superiore flavescenti- 

 pilosis, apice incrassatis pilos fasciculatos paucos gerentibus; stamina 10, 

 fllamentis parte libera planis, marginibus intus elevatis basim versus pilis 

 fasciculatis dense obsitis, extus parcissime pilosis; ovarium obovatuin 

 parcissime inferum, extus flavescenti-brunneo-tomentosum. Pructus obo- 

 voideus. circa 2 cm longus, rugosus, flavescenti-brunneo-tomentosus, stylo 

 piloso brevi coronatus, calyce persistente. 



Columbien: Pro v. Bogota, Sal to Teguerdam, 2500 m ii. M. (Triana 

 no. 2614 a. 1851-1857). 



Diese Art steht & macrophyUiis Schott am nachsten ; die Porm und 

 die Grosse des Blattes, die kleineren Bluten und die viel kleineren Kelche 

 stellen ausgezeichnete Unterschiede dar. 



12. Styrax macrotrichus Perk., no v. spec. — Prutex vel arbor: rami sub- 

 teretes. circa 5 mm lati, juniores dense hirsuto-ferrugineo-tomentosi, 

 demum glabrescentes; folia alterna. petiolata, petiolo 1 — 1,5 cm longo, 



3 mm lato, dense hirsuto-tomentoso. late oblonga vel interdum obovato- 

 oblonga. 10 — 17 cm longa, 5 — 8,5 cm lata, apice abrupte late breviterque 

 acuminata apice ipso acuta, basi rotundata vel cuneata, subchartacea, 

 integra, supra nervo mediano excepto glaberrima, subtus ferrugineo- 

 tomentosa, pilis stellatis minutis ad nervos venasque multo majoribus hirsutis 

 intermixtis instructs, supra nervis paullo, subtus nervis venisque mani- 

 feste prominentibus, venis in nervis lateralibus rectangulariter impositis, 

 nervis lateralibus 6 — 8, prope marginem curvato-conjunctis. Intlorescentia 

 racemosa vel paniculata (pauce ramosa), 3—8,5 cm longa, 3 — 18-flora. 

 axillaris vel terminalis; rhachis inflorescentiae hirsuto-ferrugineo-tomentosa; 

 bracteae 1 lanceolatae, tomentosae caducae, minutae, bracteolaeque 2 in 

 medio pedicelli, minutissimae, ovatae. caducae, tomentosae; flores 1,7 cm 

 longi. pedicello 1 — 1,5 cm longo, flavescenti-stellato-tomentoso. hinc 

 inde pilis multo majoribus ferrugineis intermixtis; calyx valde cupuli- 

 formis, truncatus, margine minute distincte denticulatus, subpapyraceus, 



4 mm latus, 5,5 mm altus, extus flavescenti-stellato-tomentosus, intus 

 breviter flavescenti-pilosus: corolla 5-partita, tubo 3 mm longo, lobis multo 

 breviore, lobis in aestivatione valvatis, membranaceis (in sicco)l,4 mm 

 longis, circa 3 mm latis, revolutis (in sicco) lanceolatis, apice acutis, extus 



