OBSERVATIONS SUR L'AMOREUXIA, &c. 145 
tinui adnati, r i verticali extrorsum dehiscentes. Stylus 
supra basim crassam, abbreviatam, in ambitu staminiferam, 
in crures 5-6, subulatas, staminibus longiores, apice stig- 
maticas? divisus. Ovarium lineare, utrinque attenuatum, 
obsolete 4-sulcum, 4-loculare. Ovula anatropa, in loculo 
quoque uniseriata, adscendentia, versus medium septi (nec 
angulo interno loculi) affixa ; seriebus asymmetrice dispo- 
sitis: nempe 2 loculorum adjacentium sibi invicem oppo- 
sitis, 2 contra in loculis adjacentibus sibi parallelis. Fruc- 
tus . . . . verosimiliter capsula 4-valvis ut in Bragantia. 
Frutex habitu piperaceo, scandens, sarmentosus, glaberrimus. 
Rami teretes, leves, medullosi: ramuli inter folia subge- 
niculato-flexuosi. Folia disticha, brevissime petiolata, exsti- 
pulata, oblonga, acute cuspidata, mucronulata, chartacea, 
siccitate fragilia, obscure triplinervia, cæterum laxe penni- 
nervia, inter nervos secundarios arcuato-adscendentes reti- 
culata. Spice e sarmentis, ad cicatrices veterum foliorum, 
dependentes, vix 2-pollicares, rachi compressa, subdilatata, 
crebre flexuosa; bracteæ linéares, breves, ad latus alterum 
foris subsessilis solitariæ. Ovarium junius pedicellum - 
simulans, perianthii limbum brunneo-rubentem, nervosum, __ 
$ subæquans, Fee ; puc Cd + A A 
Sp. unicam que: Lobbia dependens (Tas. IIL) in insula — — 
