8* BOTAMOLK. PLANTKS r ASCUI.AIRES. 



ot par son fruil rnembrancux, porlanl uno ailc trscouric le hng 

 <Ie sa suture supcn'eurc. 



POEPPIGIA EXCELSA. 



TAB. XXXIX. 



Cwsalpitiia excelsa, Poeppig. 



Arhor procera, inermis.... ramu grciles, (reles, pubentes. 



Folia approximala, alterna, paripinnala , 4-6 uncas looga j 

 pcliolo subtereli, villoso-lanuginosoj folila 25-30-juga, elliptico- 

 oblonga, utrinquc obtusa, glabriuscula , subtus pallidiora, 5-6 

 lineas longa, 2-2 l|2]ata. 



Stipulse etiam in ramis junioribus inconspicua?. 



Flores in axilla foliorumsuperiorum subcjmosi, pedunculi plu- 

 ries divisi b aut (richotomi, lomentosi, ad divisiones bracteati; 

 hracteis niinimis squamaeformibus ; pedicelli laterales in medio 

 bihraclclati, centralis nudus, 



Caljx turbinato-campanulatus , pubenti-pilosus, odentatus; 

 dentibus aculis, subsequalibus, inferiore cseleris vix longiore. 



Corolla penlapetala, subregularis , vix papilionacea , caljce 

 mullo longior : petalum superius cBteris paulo latius, basi 

 abrupto et longe unguiculatum, obloogum, aculum, snuosum \ 

 laleralia (alae) oblongo-Ianceolala , acula, basi sensim angusiata, 

 margine undulata; inferiora (carina) lateralibus consimilia, pau- 

 Jisper breviora. 



Slamina decem cum petalis calyci inserta , corollam sequantia , 

 )auiisper declnala : flamenla subulala, glabra, eequalia : antherae 

 oblongo-ovala?, introrsae, medio dorso affixae, biloculares ; loculis 

 sulco longiludinali dehiscentibus. 



)variumslipilalum,elongalum, ascendens^sublinearc, pilosum, 

 comprcssum, uniloculare j ovuia saepius 5-7. Stjius brevissimus, 

 teres, vix ab pice ovarii distinclus. Stigma minimum, termnale, 

 subcapilatum. 



Leguracn compressum , submembranaceum, oblongo-lanceola- 

 um , aculum^ basi sensim attcnuatum , sliptalum;, sutura supe- 



