clusa. Ovarium conico-ovoideum, Capsula ovoidea vel 
subglobosa, apice apiculata, laevis, atroviridis. Semina 
ellipsoides, reticulato-foveata. 
A Bruntelsia cuneifolia calyce tereti pubescentia pilosa 
et corollae tubo longiori, a B. uniflora calycis dentibus 
longioribus, pubescentia pilosa et corollae tubo longiori, 
et a B. australe foliis apice acuminatis, pubescentibus 
angustioribus differt. 
Tyrer. Brazit: Santa Catarina: Municipio Sao Miguel d’Oeste, 
forest above Rio Reperi-guacti, Peperi, ca. 26°32’ S., 53°44’ W., 
300-400 m., 21 Oct. 1964, LL.B. Smith & Pe. R. Reits 12777 (holo- 
type, GH; isotypes, MO, R, UC). 
Shrub 0.5—-2 m. tall, diffusely branched from near 
base. Branches spreading and arching, terete. Bark 
rough, longitudinally cracked, shedding in thin, char- 
taceous flakes, yellowish brown. Branchlets slender, 
pilose to villous, greyish green, dark purple when young. 
Leaves appearing two-ranked, scattered on branchlets, 
narrowly elliptic, oblong-lanceolate or obovate, acumi- 
nate at apex, cuneate at base, blade 8-7.5 cm. long, 
1.8-8 em. wide, pilose on both surfaces, primarily at 
midrib, firmly membranaceous, dull, dark green above, 
pale green beneath, the young leaves dark purple, lateral 
nerves 6-9 pairs, straight, often prominulous above; 
petiole short, 1-4 mm. long, pilose to villous. Inflores- 
cence terminal, sessile, usually with one flower, rarely 
2-3. Flowers showy, deep violet fading to pure white 
with age, odorless. Bracts 1-8, linear-lanceolate, 1-8 
mm. long, pilose to villous, caducous. Pedicel short, 
stout, 1-8 mm. long, pilose; in fruit becoming corky, 
rugose-verrucose toward apex. Calyx tubular-ventricose, 
appearing campanulate in pressed specimens, terete in 
cross-section, 12-19 mim. long, sparsely to densely pilose 
with long weak hairs, rarely glabrous, membranaceous, 
purplish, drying reddish brown, teeth subequal, lanceo- 
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