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vata ; cortice glabro (rubescente), cicafriuibus linearibus obliquis 

 stipulariim occasarum notato. Folia ampla (ad 25 cent* longa, 

 10 cent, lala) ; pctiolo ad basin dilalato (ad 1 cent, longo}; b'mbo 

 elliptico-lanccolato, basi saepius inaequali-angustalo, ad apicem 

 longiuscule aciiminato, snmmo apice oblusiusculo, integro sub- 

 coriaceo penninervio; nervisvenisque (ferriigincis)in siceo utrin- 

 que prominub's. Stipulae ovato-3-angulares (ad 1 cent, longoe), 

 decidual. Flores foiminei axiilares; receptaculo communi bre- 

 vissime stipilato folioque paulo breviore, orbiculari-pateriformi 

 (ad 1 cent. lato). Squamae involucri oc , inaequales, breviler ovato- 

 aeutiB rigidae. Flores ut in genere; germine quoad receptaculum 



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libero sessillque^ quoad calycem proprium magna ex parte infero 

 subgloboso; ovuli lateralis descendentis hilo lato; micropyle ex- 

 trorsum supera. Calyx supcrus suburceolatus apice pervius ibique 

 breviler 4-lobus ; lobis crassiusculis obfusis. Stylus conicus 

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

 brevibus recurvis acutatis, intus stigmafosis. — Species calycis 

 indole speeiem inter guiancnsenn prolotypicam et Noyeram 

 rubram Trec. (cujus fl. niasc. baud noli) quasi media, vigel in 

 dilione neo-granalensi ubi legit cl. Triana (exs., n. 8691. 



438. ScYPHOSYCE Manniana. 



Frutex (?), ramis teretibus rugosis strialis (nigrescentibiis) 

 Folia, uti planla tola, glabra, in summis ramulis approximal 

 alferna (disticha?), breviter (*-l cent.) petiolata, oblongo-subspa 

 Ihulata (ad 10 cent, longn, h cent, lata), ad basin longe angustata 



inaeauali-rotundata. hinc subauriculata, ad aniccm acu- 



bas 



minata, obtuse inaequali-erenata niembranacea, supra viridia, 

 subtus in sicco pallide ferruginea penninervia venosa ; nervis ad 

 marginem auastomosanlibus vcnisque reticulatis subtus prominulis 

 ibique rubescentibus. Siipulse peliolo subsequales v. paulolongiores 



ixplicationem imbricatoe. Flores a> 

 ubcampanulato (^ cent, longo latoq 



