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Frutex paucipedalis scandens. Folia utplurimum 1-2" longa, . 
3-6" lata, exsiecatione tantum margine revoluta, uninervia, reticu- 
lato-venulosa utrinque opaca, in petiolum bi- v. pauci-linearem 
decurrentia.  Bracteole fere 1" longs, lanceolato- v. lineari- 
subulate,. Sepala linea paulo breviora. Petala 6-8" longa, superne 
circiter 13" lata, spathulato-cuneata euspidulata. Stamina demum 
reclinata. Filamenta basin versus paulo crassiora.  Antherz 
flavee cordato-ovate fere 1" longs dorsifixze oscillatoris. Stylus 
14-2" longus. Stigma minutum emarginatum. Capsula i-3 
longa, 3-5" lata, satis compressa basi et apice obtusissima poly- 
sperma. Valvz extus semibifidze, intus longitudinaliter dehiscentes. 
Funieuli brevissimi. Semina 1-13" metientia, loculi latitudinem 
omnino explentia subrenato-orbiculata nitidula subtiliter punctu- 
lata. : 
A. Mariantho picto distinguimus speciem hancce novam foliis 
majoribus, braeteolarum forma et magnitudine, presertim autem 
seminum facie. Ultima nota, qua ad Bursariam attingit, charac- 
terem sectionalem profert. . 
Marianthus ringens. 
' (Sect. Calopetalon.) Calopetalon ringens, J. Drumm. sec. Harv. in Hook. 
Kew. Misc. vt. 52. 
Foliis magnis subcoriaceis lanceolatis v. lineari-lanceolatis v. 
linearibus primo ramulisque subsericeis demum glabris et margine 
recurvis, cyma longe pedunculata conferte multiflora, pedicellis 
subsericeis, sepalis lanceolatis longe acuminatis corolla multoties 
brevioribus, petalis glabris rubicundis acuminatis mox liberis, 
staminibus eorolla parum brevioribus, filamentis lineari-spathulatis 
apice subulato-acuminatis, antheris fere oblongis, stylo diu persis- 
tente capsule longitudinem fere squante germineque glabris, 
capsula ovali obtusissima, seminibus angulato-ovatis fuscis. 
In loeis arenosis ad flumen Chapman. J. Drummond. Prope 
flumen Greenough.  Pemb. Walcott. Ad fluvium Murchison. 
A. Oldfield. : 
Frutex volubilis pluriformis, Folia pleraque 2-3" longa, 2-10" 
lata, uninervia, reticulato-venosa.  Braetez et bracteole 1-12" 
longs sericeo-pilosz lineari-subulatzm. Sepala in varietate parvi- 
flora tantum 1" longa, in var. grandiflora saltem 2" metientia. 
Petala 5 casu 6-7, longitudine inter 1-1" variantia, lineari-spathu- 
lata, superne saturatius inferne dilutius rubra. Filamenta. plana 
uninervia apicem versus $-l" lata. Antherm e basi cordata ob- 
longz $-1" longs. Capsula biloeularis 3-4" longa e chartaceo 
paulo indurans loculicide semibivalvis, dehiscentia stylum in divi- 
siones duas inferne dissiliens. Semina 3" longa mutua pressione 
angulata nec autem complanata nitidula subtilissime reticulato- 
punetulata. 
