PLANTAE NOVAE NONNULLAE H3 



tudinaliter subreticulatim rimosulo tecti, e tereti obscure subte- 

 tragoni, basi breviter nudi, cetero ramululis abortivisgemmifor- 

 mibus v. glomeruliformibus, minimis (2-3'" long.), pyramidato- 

 stellatisad quadrifariam vestiti, hincindein parte supera ramu- 

 lis hornotinis, saepeque annotinis, plus minusve evolutis donati ; 

 ramuli hornotini teretes, glabri v. praecipue apicem versus 

 saepe puberulo -pruinulosi, primo purpurascentes, dein virides, 

 postremo griseo-pallescentes, densiuscule íoliosi ac ramululi- 

 geri ; ramululi abortivi peculiarissimi, numerosissimi, fere 

 totam plantam laxe vestientes, in ramis denudati, facile4-nato- 

 verticillati visi, in ramulis ad axillam foliorum oppositi decussa- 

 tique, diu persistentes, glomeruliformes, pyramidato-tetragono- 

 stellati, brevissimi (2'" long.), ad quadrifariam foliis minutis 

 densissime constipatis vestiti. Folia dimorpha, omnia veré pár- 

 vula ac glaberrima ; hornotina seu vera in ramulis hornotinis 

 semperbeneevoluta, in ramis saepiusobliterata, vel frustulatim 

 evanida, sessilia,decussatim opposita, internodio brevi separata 

 (1,5-2'" long.), subamplexicaulia, tripartita, patentia, Iobis divari- 

 catis, (1,5-3'" long. — {'" lat.), linearibus, rigidis, acutis, pungen- 

 tibus, integerrimis, margine revolutis ac inferné ñervo túmido 

 percursis, primo obscure viridia, saepeque minutissime pube- 

 scentia, deinatro-olivaceav. atro-purpurascentia, vixquandoque 

 epiphyllo minute puberulo, ad axillas (prima juventute excepta) 

 ramululos abortivos plus minusve evolutos gerentia ; folia ra- 

 mululorum abortivorum 4-natim verticillata (an imperspicue 

 decussata?), sessilia, crassiuscula, rigidula, ovata, subamplexi- 

 caulia, mínima (1,5-2,5'" long. — 1-1,5'" lat.) antice obtusa, mar- 

 gine crassa, integerrima, revoluta, superne levissima, nitentia, 

 castanea, inferné ad canaliculum intramarginalem in juventute 

 pruinuloso-puberula, densissime constipata. Flores in spicis 

 cylindraceo-capitatis ((1,5-2,5" long. — 1-1,5" lat.), ramulos 

 hornotinos saepius lerminantibus, solitariis v. paucis, sessilibos 

 congesti, rarius sparsi ad axillam foliorum superiorum ramulo- 

 rum, sessiles ; bracteae elliptico-lanceolatae, trifidae, foliis veris 

 subconformes, paululo ultra médium calycem productae. Calyx 

 tereti-campanulatus (4-5'" long. — 2-2,5'" ad os.), pentagonus, ex- 

 tus minute canescenti-pubescens, intus glaber, apiceoblique trun- 

 catus, 5-dentatus, dentibus 2 anticis evolutis, validulis, acerosu- 

 lis, ceteris posticis obliteratis v. omnino deficientibus; corollae 

 tubus calyce subduplo longior tereti-obconicus in parte ca- 



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