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X. Descriptions of a new Genus of Plants named A aujia, and of a 
new Species of Passiflora. By Felix de Avellar Brôtero, Professor 
of Botany in the University of Coimbra, F.M.L.S. 
Read November 7, 1815. 
ETNAUIIA 
CHARACTER GENERICUS. 
Carvx magnus, profunde quinquepartitus, persistens. Corolla 
campanulata, basi subglobosa, quinquegibba, tubo infra me- 
dium coarctato, limbo quinquefido. Nectaria sacculi quinque 
gibbosi, in fundo corollæ inter antherarum filamenta decurren- 
tia, in quorum decursu squama horizontalis et auricula termi- 
nalis. Styli duo brevissimi; Stigma utrisque commune ovatum, 
apice bicorni. Folliculi duo oppositi, deorsum flexi, coriaceo- 
fungosi, subovales, semi-biloculares: dissepimento eorum ad 
centrum, seu medium, protenso, utrinque multilamellato. Se- 
mina numerosa, lamellis dissepimenti adhærentia, coma longa 
sericiformi coronata. 
ARAUJIA SERICOFERA. 
A. caule fruticoso, scandente; foliis cordatis, integerrimis, gla- 
bris, ad petioli apicem glandulosis ; racemis paucifloris. 
Radix perennis, ramosa, serpens. . 
Caulis fruticosus, debilis, scandens, teres, glaber, inferne penne 
anserinæ superne gallinaceæ crassitudine, tres quatuorve pedes 
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