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yata ; cortice glabro (rubescente), eieatrieibus linearibus obliquis 

 stipularum occasarum notato. Folia ampla (ad 25 cent, longa, 

 10 cent, lafa) ; petiolo adbasin dilalato (ad 1 cent, longo); limbo 

 elliptico-lanccolato, basi ssepius inœquali-angustalo, ad apicem 

 longiuscule acuminato, summo apice obtusiusculo, integro sub- 

 coriaceo penninervio; nervis venisque (ferrugineis) in sicco utrin- 

 que prominulis. Stipulée ovato-3-angulares (ad 1 cent. Iongse), 

 decidua?. Flores fœminei axillares; receptaculo communi bre- 

 vissime stipitato folioque paulo breviore, orbiculari-pateriformi 

 (adl cent. lato). Squamœ involucri co , inaequales, brevifer ovato- 

 acutse rigïdse. Flores ut in génère; germine quoad receptaeulum 

 libero sessilique, quoad calycem proprium magna ex parte infero 

 subgloboso; ovuli lateralis descendent hilo lato; mieropyle ex- 

 trorsum supera. Calyx superus suburceolatus apice pervius ibique 

 breviler 4-lobus ; lobis crassiusculis obtusis. Stylus conicus 

 paulo ultra germen dilalalus, mox conico-attenuatus; lobis 2, 

 brevibus recurvis aculalis, intus stigmalosis. — Species calycis 

 indole speciem inter guianensem prototypicam et Noyerhm 

 rubram Tréc. (cnjus il. masc. baud noli) quasi média, viget in 

 ditioneneo-granalensi ubi legitcl. Triana (exs., n. 869). 



138. SCYPHOSTCE M'ÀNNIANA. 



Frutex (?), ramis teretibus rugosis striatis (nigrescentibus) . 

 Folia, uti planta tota, glabra, in summis ramulis approximate 

 alterna (disticha?), brevitcr («-1 cent.) peliolata, oblongo-subspa- 

 thulata (ad 10 cent, longa, k cent, lata), ad basin longe angustata, 

 imabasi inœquali-rotundata, bine subauriculata, ad apicem acu- 

 minata, obtuse inœquali-erenata membranacea, supra viridia, 

 subtus in sicco pallide ferruginea penninervia venosa ; nervis ad 

 marginem anastomosanlibus venisque reticulatis subtus prominulis 

 ibique rubescentibus. Stipulée petiolo subaequàles v. paulo longiores 

 acutata? (nigrescentes), anteexplicationem imbricatae. Flores axii- 

 lares in receptaculo concavo subcampanulato (| cent, longo latoque) 



