300 Ion. Urban: 



anguste v. liiieai-i-Uinccolatis; stylis fero usque ad basin iii lobos 

 2 lineares partitis; capsulis globuiosis, fere 4 nini. longis, niediocriter 

 longitrorsum 3-sulcatis; seminibiis ovalibus, 3 mm. longis sublaevibus 

 nitidis. 



Rami vetustiores teretes glabrescentes griseo-brunei valde ramosi; 

 ramii hornotini angulati, pube lepidota sordide flava. Stipiilae minutae 

 glanduliformes v. nullae. Folia petiolis aiigulatis snpra sulcatis, nervo 

 medio snpra profunde snlcato- impresso, subtus valde prominente, nervis 

 lateralibus sub angulo 70 80 abeuntibus, snpra impressis, ad marginem 

 dicliotorais et saepius conjunctis, chartacea v. chartaceo - coriacea , snpra in 

 sicco olivacea v. brunescentia, subtus pilis stellaribns breviter multiradiatis 

 adpressis dense vestita, apice ipso subcucullato- plicata. Inflorescentiae 

 terminales, 1 2 cm. longe pednncnlatae, femineae 2 5-florae; rhachis 

 angulata, pube ramoruni; bracteae lanceolato- lineares, 0,7- 1mm. longae. 

 Flores feminei: Sepala 5 in aestivatione valvata, 2 mm. longa, 0,5 0,6 mm, 

 lata, obtusa, extrinsecus pilis brevibus adpressis lepidiformibus induta, intus 

 glabra, subcoriacea, posterius non v. vix accrescentia. Petala (v. stami- ' 

 nodia?) bene evolnta, sepalis subaequilonga, linearia v. lineari-subnlata, 

 margine pubescentia. Disci glandulae 5 subsemiorbiculares, inferne calycis 

 fundo adnatae. Ovarinm sphaeroideum trigonum flavido-tomentosum. Styli 

 1,5 mm. longi, dorso infero brevissime pubescentes, apice involuti, crassius- 

 culi, intus sulcati. Capsnlae dorso pilis stellaribns parcis obsitae, in sicco 

 nigrescentes; valvae columnam triangiam ad margines breviter pilosam, 

 superne sensim crassiorem relinquentes. Semina 1,5 mm. lata, ntrinque 

 convexa, obsolete v. vix impresso -punctata, nitidissima, cinerascentia, carun- 

 cula latiuscula biloba, raphe basi saepe apiculato- producta. 



Hab. in Haiti prope Port-au-Prince: Picarda n. 1299. 



Obs. Affinis C. origanifolius Lam. pube ramorum et foliorum subtus 

 manifeste radiata, foliis latioribus, snpra stellato-pilosis, nervis multo minus 

 numerosis (ntrinque 5 7), inflorescentiis plurifloris bisexualibus, seminibus 

 brevioribns, manifestius punctatis recedit. 



Crotoii Poitaei Urb. (n. sp.) monoicns, foliis 20 5 mm. longe 

 petiolatis, subtus ad basin v. sub basi glandulas 2 parvas v. minutas 

 subsessiles v. sessiles, mmc obsoletas gerentibus, lanceolatis v. lineari- 

 lanceolatis, basi obtusiusculis, superne sensim angustatis, apice obtuso 

 in apiculum brevem contractis, 3,5 1,5 cm. longis, 1 0,5 cm. latis, 

 sed plerisque longitrorsum plicatis, margine integris, nervo medio siipra 

 subimpresso, lateralibus supra non conspicuis, subtus prominentibus 

 pinnatis, supra pilis stellaribus adpressis dense obsitis, subtus eadem 

 pube, sed densiore flavida v. ferruginea tomentosulis; inflorescentiis 

 2 3 cm. longis, 3 7 mm. longe pedunculatis, floribus inferioribus 

 26 femineis, caeteris masculis; pedicellis flor. masc. in quaque 

 bractea 3 5, ca. 1,5 mm. longis, alabastris sphaeroideis, ca. 1 mm. 

 diametro; staminibus ca. 16; flor. fem. usque 1 mm. longe pedicellatis, 

 sepalis lanceolatis; stylis bipartitis; capsulis globuiosis, 3,5 mm. diametro, 



