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subcoriacea, remote pennineryia ; venis vix conspicuis. 

 Stipulée brèves connatae, décidai. Flores axillares minuti glo- 

 merulati; glomerulis paucifloris; calyce subintegro; eorolke 

 lobis crassiusculijS 4, valvatis staminibusque totidem inclusis. 

 Gerinen 4-locellatum, locellis 1-ovulatis; stylo brevi, apice 

 breviter 2-lobo. — Planta quoad inllorescentiam axillarem 

 (eam Labiatanim nonnibil referentem) eonspicua indeque sec- 

 tionis (Morindina) in génère prototypus evadens, oritur in Nova- 

 Galedonia, ubi prope Wagap legebat cl. Vieillard (Ilerb., 

 n. 719). 



11)1. Morindv Lastelliana. 



Fruticosa (?), ramulis valde compressis, demum glabratis. 

 Folia opposita ad angulum ramuli inserta oblongo-lanceolata 

 (ad 4 cent, longa, 2 cent, lata), basi in petiolum breviusculuni 

 (ad 1 cent.) attenuata, ad apicem acuminata; summo apice 

 obtusiusculo ; subintegra crebre penninervia glabra (in sicco 

 pallidula). Flores ad axillas foliorura spurie verticillali crebri 

 minimi, jure in cymas brevissime stipitatas dispositi; floribus 

 in cymis singulis pancis, same 3, v. panlo nnmerosioribus. 

 Galyx profunde 4-5-fidns; lobis acutis v. acuminatis. Gorolla 

 in alabastro snbclavata; tnbo angusto ; lobis 4-6, acutiusculis 

 valvatis. Stamina totidem inclusa. Gerinen 2-loculare ; loculis 

 1-ovulatis; ovnlo l'ère ad médium septi inserto adscendente. 

 — Species oceanicas nonnnllas referons, incomplète nota, ob 

 inflorescentiœ indolem MorindÙM proxima, imprimis ob ovn- 

 Ium in iocnlis 2 solitarium distincta, sectionis prototypus (sub 

 nom. Morindellœ) evadens, in Madagascaria a cl. LaMelle, 

 anno 1841, lecta fuit (Herb. Mus. par.). 



192. MORINDA BlLLARDIERI. 



Frutex scandens glaberrimus; ramulis lignosis nodosis ; cor- 

 tice puiictulalo-rugoso-fuscescente. Folia siccitate nigre- 



