STIKPES EXOTICE NOV^E. 101) 



5-nervia. Pclioli limbo subœquales tcretes graciles, squamis minutis 

 crebris lepidoti. Flores in axillis foliorum supremoxum rami spurie 

 umbellati crebri, longe (5, 6 cent.) pedunculati ; pedicellis (ad 

 1 cent, longis) angulalis, articulatis; alabastro oblongo subfusi- 

 formi (1 cent, longo) acuto, basi angustuto. Calix valvatns, dense 

 lepidotus. Petalacalyce paulo longiora, basi angustata, valde torta. 

 Stamina 10, fertilia, basi cum petalis et staminodiis alternipetalis 5, 

 lanceolatis, urceolo lageniformi inserla ; antheris oblongis, l\- 

 Iocellatis ; locellis per paria distinctis lateralibns. Germen urceolo 

 inclusum dense lateque squamosum ; stylo 5-ramoso ; loculis 5, 

 2-ovulatis ; ovulis compresso-subalatis, adscendentibus ; dissepi- 

 mento spurio inter ovulum utrumque e pariete loculi exteriore 

 [Linorum more) producto. — Oritur in Nossibé, ubi \eg\i Richard, 

 anno 18/i0 (exs., n. 3/i3, in Ilerb. Mus. par.). 



2>h. Trochetia Boivini. 



Arbor (25-pedalis, teste Pervillé); ramis gracilibus teretibus 

 strialis glabralis, junioribus, uti folia partesque plantas fere omnes, 

 palliter fulvido-lepidolis. Folia oblongo-ovata (ad 8 cent, longa, 

 3 cent, lata), basi cordata, apice rotundata v. emargïnata, nunc 

 subcordata, eseterum intégra subcoriacea penninervia venosa ; 

 costa subtus prominula pallidiore. Petioli graciles (1-2 cent, longi), 

 canaliculati. Flores in axillis foliorum ramuli superiorum axillares 

 spurie racemosi pauci (3-8) ; pedicellis (ad 1 cent, longis) in sicco 

 angulatis, uti calyx pallide lepidotis, articulatis; alabastris oblongo- 

 subconicis (ad 1 cent, longis). Sepala oblonga, coriacea, apice 

 obtusiuscula. Petala calyce vix longiora angustata. Staminodia 5, 

 oppositipetala subspathulata, petalo 2-midio breviora. Stamina 

 fertilia 20, quorum interiora 2, majora, in phalanges 5, alterni- 

 petalas disposita ; filamentis erectis subulatis ; antheris oblongis, 

 filamcnto longioribus; loculis linearibus extrorsum contiguis. Ger- 

 men ovoideum squamis pallide lutescentibus dense lepidotum ; 

 ovulis in loculis singulis 2. 3, ad médium loculum insertis, adscen- 

 dentibus ; stylo ad apicem 5-fido ; ramis prismalico-3-angulalis, 



