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anthers, its stigmata, the position of its ovules, and the enlargement of the calyx around 
the fruit, all prove it to be very different from Cordia. Itis evidently allied to Auxemma, 
differing in its much larger corolla, in its more coriaceous calycine envelope of the fruit, 
the structure of which is similar to that of the genus last mentioned. The name given 
to it is derived from тарадегуна, exemplar, as it offers а striking example of the peculiar 
characters which distinguish Auzemma. 
PARADIGMA, nob. 
Flores hermaphroditi. Calyx ovato-tubulosus, coriaceus, primum omnino clausus, tunc im dentibus 
brevibus ssepius 3, rotundatis irregularibus margine dense ciliatis apertus, demum accrescens et per- 
sistens. Corolla majuscula, tubulosa, tubo carnosulo, pro dimidia parte inferiore anguste cylindrico 
et calycem æquante, seorsum subito infundibuliformi, fauce campanulata, crebre parallele nervosa, 
limbo 8-lobo, lobis oblongis, acutis, demum expansis, zstivatione tubo multiplicato lobis profunde 
introflexis et in centro conniventibus. Stamina 8, lobis alterna, sub faucem inclusa ; filamenta nulla ; 
anthere æquales, lineares, intra faucem sessiles, tubo ter breviores, 2-lobæ, lobis connectivo angusto 
membranaceo supra medium nexis, imo segregatis et ad sinum affixis, utrinque lateraliter dehiscenti- 
bus; pollen globosum, reticulatum. | Ovarium superum, oblongum, disco parvo insitum, 4-loculare ; 
ovula in loculis solitaria, erecta, atropa ; stylus filiformis, bis bifidus; stigmata 4, inclusa, majuscula, 
lineari-lamelliformia, marginibus anguste membranaceis et crenulato-undulatis. Drupa majuscula, 
exsucca, oblonga, apiculata, calyce coriaceo aucto ore dentato occlusa, monopyrena ; pyren ovatus, 
apice conico-acutus, lateribus sulcis irregularibus et interruptis sarcocarpio repletis profunde 
exsculptus, dense osseus, cavitate centrali ampla excavatus, et hine materia fibrosa vasis repleta е 
disco enata munitus, superne 4-locularis, loculis monospermis (uno alterove minore) ad basin pro 
vasorum introitu perforatis. Semen loculum implens, oblongo-ovatum, ad basin prope ab angulo 
affixum : integumenta 2, externum album, friabile, internum crassiusculum, opacum; raphe nulla; 
chalaza cum hilo basali confusa; embryo exalbuminosus, atropus ; radicula supera, parva ; cotyledones 2, 
carnosule, plurifariam longitudinaliter plicatze. 
Arbor Antillana, ramosissima : folia alterna, ovata, integra, petiolata: panicule terminales, dichotome 
divise ; flores majusculi, speciosi. 
1. PARADIGMA GALEOTTIANA, nob.: Cordia Galeottiana, A. Rich. in Flor. Cub. Sagr. 
хі. 109; Griseb. Pl. Cub. 208; Walp. Ann. v. 540: ramis glabris, substriatis: foliis 
glaberrimis, ovalibus vel oblongis, apice breviter constrictis obtusis et canalieulatis, | 
imo obtusis, coriaceis, integris, supra opace viridibus, costa nervisque tenuibus sub- 
immersis, subtus pallidioribus, nervis patentibus rubellis paullo prominentibus ; 
petiolo supra sulcato, limbo 6plo breviore : paniculis terminalibus, dichotome multi- 
ramosis, glabris, ramulis compressis, ultimis 1-2-floris, bracteis lineari-acutis valde 
deciduis; calyce tubuloso, coriaceo, glabro, intus parallele multinervoso, apice 
primum clauso, dein aperto, dentibus 3-6 rotundatis, ciliatis, extus obsolete, intus 
densius pilosis; corolla infundibuliformi, tubo calyce 2plo longiore, imo angustato, 
glabro, superne ad nervos 24 prominulos pilosulos plicato, limbo expanso, lobis 5, 
lanceolato-oblongis, acutis, submembranaceis, extus dense cano-tomentosis ; antheris 
intra faucem affixis, 8, linearibus, sessilibus : ovario subulato-oblongo, striato : drupa 
oblonga, apiculata, calyce aucto ore contracto tecta, exsucca; pyrene 4-loculari, - 
4-spermo. Іп Antillis: v. s. in hb. Mus. Brit. Cuba circa Havanna (Galeotti, 19). 
