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*CLAVÍJA ornáta. 
Elegant Clavija. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGY NIA. 
Nat. ord. Anvistacez $ C. Turopurastea, Bartl. ord. nat. p. 165. 
THEOPHRASTEACEA, D. Don in G. Don. gen. syst. 4. p. 24. 
CLAVIJA.—Ruiz et Pavon. Calyx 5-partitus. Corolla rotata, 5-loba. 
Corone appendices 5, carnose, adnate, Filamenta in tubum connata! An- 
there coherentes. Ovarium 1-loculare, multi-ovulatum. Bacca crustacea, 
mono-polysperma. Arbores (Amer. /Equin.) sempervirentes, trunco sim- 
plicissimo, recto, more Palmarum apice frondoso. Folia alternatim conferta, 
undique patentia, oblonga, coriacea, glabra, reticulato-venosa, margine 
dentato-spinosa v. integerrima ; petioli basi callosi. Flores racemosi, albi 
aut aurantiaci. D. Don. MSS. 
C. ornata, foliis elongato-lanceolatis mucronatis dentato-spinosis, petiolis ungui- 
cularibus, racemis glabris, baccis subdispermis. D. Don. 
Clavija ornata. D. Don in edinb. phil. Journ. January 1831. in G. Don 
gen. syst. 4. p. 25. 
Theophrasta longifolia. Jaeg. coll. 4. p. 136. hort. schanbr. 1. t. 116. 
Spreng. syst. 1. p. 670. 
Arbor (in caldario culta) vix ultrà 6-pedalis, tamen in loco natali sepe 
altitudinem 20 pedum attingens, trunco recto, simplicissimo, a ice frondoso, 
cortice fusco rugoso-rimoso induto. Folia conferta, subverticillata, patentia, 
oblongo-spathulata v. lanceolata, mucronata, dentato-spinosa, late viridia, 
glaberrima, cartilaginea, supra nitidula, pedalia v. sesquipedalia, spitha- 
mam lata, costá validá pallidiori subtůs elevatá, ramis primariis transversis 
parallelis, venulisque ramosissimis reticulata, basi attenuata, integerrima. 
Petioli unguiculares, robusti, fusco-purpurei, suprà planiusculi. Racemi 
supra-axillares, simplices, multiflori, palmares v. spithamai, plerumque 
penduli, axi tereti, glabro, viridi, Flores odore Primule veris fragrantissimi, 
Crocei, undique sparsi, inferioribus sape abortivis, Pedicelli brevissimi, 
robusti, teretes, glabri, pallid? aurantiaci. Calyx 5-partitus, persistens : 
laciniis rotundatis, coriaceis, impress? punctatis, margine membranaceis, 
leviter erosis, estivatione imbricatis. Corolla rotata, substantiá crassd 
coriaced ; tubo brevissimo, subobconico, intüs sulcato ; limbo 5-lobo, patulo; 
lobis subrotundis, integerrimis, astivatione imbricatis, disco conveziusculis. 
Corone appendices 5, flave, carnose, delloidee, adnate, tuberculiformes, 
suprà bisulcate, lobis corolle alterna. Stamina 5, corolla lobis opposita ; 
filamenta in tubum membranaceum inferné ventricosum connata ; anthers 
coherentes, extrorse, biloculares, appendiculá brevissimá rotundatá mem 
branaceá coronate ; loculis oblongis, distinctis, parallelis. Pollen pulvereum, 
Ovarium liberum, pyramidatum, uniloculare, aurantiacum ; ovulis numerosis, 
liment to Jose 
* Named by the authors of the Flora Peruviana in comp r 
of Buffon into 
Clavijo Poj a Spanish Naturalist, who translated the works 
his own language. 
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