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nusve abrupte (saepe recurvato) acuminatis, sparse pellucido- 

 punctatis; paniculis ex axillis foliorum novellorum iisque 

 brevioribus; germine pilis adpressis dense villso, 2-I0- 

 culari. 



Descriptio: Rami teretes glabrati, novelli internodiis 

 compressis pilis adpressis hirti. Folia annua, rarius biennia, 

 opposita, petiolata petiolo semitereti, supra canaliculato, 

 pilis adpressis hirto (c. 5 mm. lg.), lamina papyracea, sparse 

 pellucido-punctata, elliptico-oblonga (c. 2,7 8 ctm. lg. et 

 c. 1,2 3 ctm. lt), basi obtusa vel acuta, apice plus mi- 

 nusve abrupte acuminata , acumine obtuso saepe plus mi- 

 nusve recurvato, supra glabra vel novella pilis adpressis 

 sparsissimis parce pilosa, nervo medio impresso in novellis 

 pilis adpressis piloso, venis lateralibus utroque latere cir- 

 citer 16 18 patenti-patentissimissis cum nervo marginali 

 interna (exteriore margini proxima minus conspicua) venu- 

 lisque reticulatis interjectis elevatis, subtus multo pallidiora 

 paene glabra vel pilis adpressis sparsissimis pilosa, nervo 

 medio prominente, pilis adpressis piloso , venis lateralibus, 

 marginalibus venulisque interjectis minus elevatis. Inflore- 

 scentiae ex axillis foliorum novellorum, folio fulcrante bre- 

 viores, pedunculatae pedunculo tereti-applanato pilis ad- 

 pressis piloso (c. 1,5 ctm., rarissime 7 mm. lg.), compositae: 

 primi ordinis racemiformes fiore terminali, secundi ordinis 

 (paria 3 5) pseudodichasia vel dichasia trifiora vel su- 

 perne dichasia biflora vel saepe uniflora vel rarius omnia 

 uniflora, pedunculis applanatis pilis adpressis pilosis (in- 

 fimis c. 6 mm. lg., supremis I i 1 /? mm. lg.), tertii ordinis 

 dichasia uniflora pedunculis applanatis pilis adpressis pilosis 

 (c. 1 2 mm. lg.). Bracteae bracteolaeque delapsae. Ala- 

 bastra globoso-turbinata (c. 3 mm. lg.). Flores sessiles. 

 Sepala a basi latissime cuneata late rotundato-triangularia, 

 exteriora apice plus minusve apiculata, utroque latere pilis 

 adpressis parce pilosa. Petala late ovaiia vel obovata 

 inaequalia (c. 5 mm. lg. et 2 1 /-, 3 3 /4 mm. lt.), concava huc 

 illuc praesertim apice irregulariter dentata, extrorsum pilis 

 adpressis pilosa, introrsum glabra. Stamina plurima (c. 6 mm. 



