858 



crassiora 



serinam crassa, 2 J cent, ionga, baccifera 4-6 cent. longa, ..«.„,„, 

 pedunculo subtxJissime liirtcllo 1J^1| cent, longo sustenta. Flores 

 densi. Bracteac scssilcs, lato-rotundatae subconchaeibrmes , carnosulo- 

 conaceae, supra glabrae, subtus hirtellac. Stamina 4 an 6?, fila- 

 mentis crassiusculis teretibus glabris persistentibus , antheris subrenifor- 

 mibus bilocularibus sordide flavis. Ovarium sessile, subjjloboso-ovatum, 

 Slabrum, apice m stylum bievissimum quasi attenuatum , stigina- 

 tibus 3 vel 5, crassiusculis recurvatis. Baccae conlertiusculac , sessiles, 

 subgloboso-ovatae, stylo brcvissimo stigmatibusque vel eoruni rudi- 

 meutis coronatac, laem, glabrae. Semen ellipticum acutiusculuu. , 

 jnaoquabtcr tetragonum , luscuni , sublaeve (sec. sp. Humb. Hb. Willd. 

 et Gaudicb. hrasil.) 



Specimina ex ins. St. Tbomas ioJia lerunt basi cordata. 



11. Enckea Sieberi. Ranmlis foliisque glabris, his 

 membranaceis, pellucido-punclalis, supra atroviridibus nitidis, 

 Bubtus fuscescenti-pallidis, oblique ovatis ellipticisve, acumi- 

 nalis, acumine acuto mucronato, basi inaequali rotundatis 

 vel acutiusculis, subseptemnerviis, amentis pateati-peiidulis, 

 maturis folia fere aequanlibus, bracteis (maluris) conchaefor-' 

 inibus rotundatis glabris, stigmatibus 3^4 brevibus oblusis 

 patulis. 



Habitat in ins. Trinitatis (Sieber! FI. Trin. n. 224 in Herb. 

 De less.), in ins. St. Crucis (Hb. reg. berol.!) 



Diflcrt babitu ct glabritie ab E ceanotJuTolia ct plantaginea. 



Ramuh tcrctcs in sicco lusci striulati, laevcs, glabri , sumini suban- 

 gulos,, mtcrnodiis 4J-5i cent, longis. Folia patentia petiolis in sicco 

 luscis gJabns antice canaliculatis 1-1 i cent, longis sustenta, mcrnbra- 

 nacea , subtiliter {K^Jlucido-punclulata venulisque jjellu^idis , supra atro- 

 virulia, nitcntia, laevia, glaberrima, subtus lUscescci.li-palbda nitidula 

 nervis(|uc puriuircis notata, inaequilatera , oblique ovat^ vel oblonga, 

 basi inaei^uali raro in summis subaeqnali rotuudata vel acutiuscula ! 

 acuminata, acumine longiusculo, obliquo, acuto, saepius mucronato', 

 10— 15 cent longa, 5i-^7 in medio lata , subscptemnervia , n. 3 me- 

 diis validioribus ad apiccm perductis prominentibus , latcralibus fere ad 

 i alt., inliiiiis subtilissimis marginalibus viz conspicuis. Anastomoses 

 iransvcrsae reticulalac Icnucs. Stipula oppositil'oJia convoJuta, curvata, 

 glabra, § cent. Amenta matura baccilera patentia suLpend'ula, pe^ 

 dunculis crassiusculis glabris 1^—2 cent, longis suffulta, 9— 10 cent, 

 longa, adspcctu nigricantia, calamum scriptorium inJerne crassa, sursum 

 allcnufita, recta aut Icvitcr deorsum curvata, baccis patcntibus sitis dense 

 oj)u&la. ISjMctcacioncLadijrjjjc*, joluudalac, ujuic glabrae, Oyjif^pjj^ 



