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SOUTH AMERICAN PLANTS. '^'J 



dum minimse, aut abortivse. Ovarium oblongum, glandula 

 annulan fere obsoleta imo cinctum, 2-loculare, ovulis plurimis, 

 dissepimento medio prominulo et incrassato utrinque adnatis! 

 Stylus erectus, filiformis, apice declinatus, longitudine sta- 

 mmum. Stigma breviter bilabiatum, lobis adpressis. Capsula 

 ovata, conacea, calyce persistente cincta, septicide dehiscens, 

 valviilis apice 2-fidis, marginibus introflexis, imo basi columnse 

 subglobosse placentiferse adha^reutibus. Semina plurima, mi- 

 nuta, transversa, oblonga, compressa, dorso plana, quadrato- 

 angulata^longitudinaliter curvata, striato-rugulosa, hilo ventrali 

 et fere basali. Embryo in albumine carnoso oblongus, curvatus, 

 subcompressus, cotyledonibus oblongis, radicula basali tereti 

 vix latioribus, et 2-plo longioribus.—Suffrutices Mexicani,pube 

 brachiato densissime tomentoso vestiti; folia alterna, subparva, 



crassa, umnervia, 

 folio submquales, . 

 plo-ve lonyiore. 



axillares 



iEquin 



tab. 109; H. B. K. ii. 361; — foliis ovatis, basi apiceque acu- 

 tiusculis, utrinque densissime tomentosis, cinerascentibus, ju- 

 nioribus palKde incanis; laciniis calycinis lineari-lanceolatis, 

 extus tomentosis, intus glabris, nitidis, 3-ner\iis, corollEe tubo 

 amplo 3-plo brevioribus ; ovarii apice, stylique basi pilosis. — 

 Mexico. Actopan, Prov. Mexico, alt. 6600 ped., Bonpland. 



mapan, Galeotti^ n. 7210* 



Hartweg^ n. 357. Zi- 



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This is described by Bonpland as a tall shrub, 8 to 15 feet in 

 height, with a stem slightly tortuous, 4 or 6 inches in diameter, 

 covered with a slightly rent bark. It is a very conspicuous ob- 

 ject in the forests, showing itself at a distance by its silvery leaves, 

 and forming a striking contrast with the dark green foliage of 

 the surrounding trees. Its leaves are from ^ to | inch long, 

 5 or 6 lines broad, with a petiole 2 lines in length; its calyx 

 measures 2 or 3 lines, and is smooth within ; its violet-coloured 

 corolla is ^ an inch long, smooth outside and pilose within. This 

 species may readily be distinguished from the others, by its leaves 

 being acute at both ends; in the older ones the tomentum is of a 

 blackish gray, in the younger leaves of a pale yellowish white ; 

 the small branchlets are 4 to 8 inches long, almost bare, pro- 

 minently knotty at the articulation of the fallen petioles, with 

 only a few leaves towards the extremity, and with solitary flowers 

 in their axils. Bonpland describes the stamens to be didynamous, 

 quite glabrous, and the upper lobe of the corolla woolly within, 

 and the tube pilose inside to the insertion of the stamens, Kunth, 

 who probably examined very imperfect specimens, says, on the 



