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mox'clausà. Ovarrum oblongum, glabrum, 2-loculare, polyspermum : 
ovula in quovis loculamento placentæ affixa proeminenti. Carsura 
ovata, compressiuscula, 2-sulcata, glabra, 2-valvis, polysperma ; 
valvulis dissepimentis parallelis, 2-partitis ; placentis dehiscentià 
septicidà à marginibus angustis dissepimenti solutis, timque mas- 
sulam oblongam in centro capsulæ efformantibus. SemiNa minutis- 
sima , oblongo-cylindrica , angulata , subpunctata , rufa. INTEGUMEN- 
TUM submembranaceum. PErISPERMUM carnosum. Emsrvo rectus, in 
semine axilis : radicula obtusa : cotyledones radiculà breviores. 
Crescit in pascuis humidis vel paludosis propè præcipitem aquæ 
lapsun fluminis Uruguay dictum Salto grande rivulumque Gara- 
puitä, in provincià Rio grande do Sul, haud longè à finibus provin- 
ciæ Missionum. Floret Januario. 
2. STEMODIA GRATIOLÆFOLIA, + 
S. foliis oppositis, sessilibus, linearibus, acutis, obsoletissimè 
dentatis, glabris; floribus paniculatis, subsessilibus, in axillis 
bractearum subsolitariis; calyce glabriusculo. 
Caurrs herbaceus, 6-14 pollicaris, erectus, apice ramosus, basi 
stolonifer, 4-gonus, glaber : rami breves, 4-goni : stolonæ graciles, 
reptantes, 3-7-pollicares, punctis exterioribus glandulosis conspersi 
lutescentibus. Forra caulina opposita, sessilia, circiter 18 1. longa , 
2 |. lata, linearia, acuta, obsoletissimè dentata ( V’eronicæ scutel- 
latæ), punctis glandulosis conspersa , glabra ; stolonum erecta , se- 
cunda, circiter 6 1. longa, 1 + lata, lineari-oblonga , falcata , sub- 
integerrima , glabra. Panicura terminalis, subcoarctata (si mavis, 
racemi in apice caulis axillares, simplices ): paniculæ rami oppositi, 
erectiusculi, distantes , simplices, bi vel trifidi, 4-goni, graciles, 
glabri, enati ex axillis bractearum >, oppositarum, caulinarum, 
foliis conformium , infrà flores insuper onusti bracteis quibusdam 
oppositis, foliis consimilibus sed multo minoribus (folia ramea ). 
Fiores in paniculæ ramis spicati, remotiusculi, oppositi, sessiles 
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