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quarum summa usque ad apicem ducta. Anastomoses tenues. 
Folia superiora 15-17 cent. longa, 6-84 lata, costis 2-3 utrin- 
que e basi quarta paullo altius libera. Stipula oppositifolia 
decidua linearis convoluta subcurvata 1 cent. paullo superans. 
Pedunculi 5-6 mm., amenta 5-7 cent. longa, 2 mm. crassa, 
adspectus griseo-pubescentis. 
14. A. Selloviana, p. 416? Cumana (Funcke, n. 674). 
15. A. Miersiana ; ramulis petiolis pedunculisque appresse 
subretrorse hirto-pubescentibus, foliis coriaceis sparse pel- 
lucido-punctatis, supra tenerrime puberulis nervisque sul- 
catis, subtus sublacunosis incanis pubescenti-tomentosis 
pilis supra nervos densioribus oblique ovatis acuminatis 
acumine acutiusculo mucronulato, basi leviter inæquali 
rotundatis vel subcordatis, 5-7-plinerviis, nervis 3 me- 
diis ad } alt. solutis, reliquis e basi pedunculo petiolum 
bis terve superante, amentis cylindricis brevibus obtusis, 
bracteis pedicellato-peltatis subrotundatis croceo-ciliato- 
hirtis, area centrali nuda glandulosa, staminibus 4? infimo 
bracteæ opposito, baccis obpyramidatis vertice subtrun- 
cato-umbilicatis. 
Has. Peruvia, in Chachapoyas, (Mathews, n. 186.) 
Species A. Andicole accedens, certe A. albide, p. 415 affinis, 
que tamen secundum descriptionem a cl. Kunth datam qui- 
busdam notis differre videtur. 
Frutex. Rami teretes nodosi appresse pubescentes, inter- 
nodiis 2-5 cent. longis; ramuli dichotomi dense tomentoso- 
hirti, tomento sordide ochraceo. Petioli 4-10 mm. longi, 
antice canaliculati. Folia in sicco supra sordide fusca, nervis 
venisque canaliculata, attamen levia, sub lente pilis teneris 
inspersa, subtus ochraceo-incana, molliter tomentoso-pubes- 
centia, pilis supra nervos longioribus, plus minus ineequilate- 
raliter ovata, acuminata, acumine lanceolato-lineari sursum 
attenuato acuto mucronulato, marginibus revolutis, basi sub- 
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attenuata leviter inæquali plerumque rotundata aut aliquid | 
excisa, 5-6 cent. longa, 3 cent. ad 1 alt. circiter lata, nervis 
subtus prominentibus medio ad apicem ducto, e basi utrinque 
uno majore et sepe altero ad imam basin tenui, tertius 
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