patu]a, subcoriaceo-membranacca , utrinque glabra, sabtas in nervis vix 

 puberala , subtilissime pellucido-punctulata , laete viridia , nitida , sabtns 

 pallidiora , ovato-oblonga , oblonga vel ovato-lanceolata , inaeqailatcra , 

 longe angustato-acuminata , acumine acutato, hasi inaequali rotundata, 

 quinquenerTia , nervis utrinque proniincntibas , 3 mediis ad apicem duc- 

 tis, intimis tenuisslmis, anastomosibus boriiontalibus parallelis tenuibus 

 (quarum extimae juxta margincs areas extus convexas formant) conjunctis, 

 13 — 16 cent. longa,4| — 5i lata. Pctioli 5 — 8 mm. longi canaliculati, 

 birtelli. Stipula op positi folia decidua, lanceolata, subulata, convo- 

 luta, carvata, petioli longitudinis. Amenta erectiuscula , tenuia, vix 

 pennam passcrinam crassa, 4 cent, fere longa , peduncalo ly cent, 

 longo glabro sustenta. Flores den$i. Bracteae conchaeformes , cras- 

 siusculae, ciliolatae. Stamina quot? antheris renilormibus bilocula- 

 ribus. (sec. sp. Humb. Hb. Willd.) 



23. Enckea Llndenil. Ramis ramulisque tenuissime 

 hirtellis, foliis elliptico-lanceolatis , basi dimidiato-sagillato- 

 cordatis, longiuscule acuminatis, acumine obtuso miicronu- 

 lato, quadrinerviis (trinerviis, unoque accessorio in lobo 

 baseos) raembranaceis sparse pellucido-puuctulatis , sapra gla- 

 bris, subtus in nervis petioloque subtiliter hirtellis, amentis 

 tenuissime filiformibus folium subaequantibus , bracteis subro- 

 tundis cucullato-concavis subtilissime hirtellis, stigmatibus 

 quatuor abbreviatis obtusis. 



Habitat in sylvis densis ad Reapa, Rabasco R^ni raexi- 

 cani, Novembri florens, fl. albidis (Linden ! in Herb. Oe 

 Less.) 



Frutex lindehio teste 25 — 30 pedes altus. Rami teretcs striati, ra- 

 muliquc una facie subcomprcssi , in sicco fnsci subtiliter birtelJi, nodosi, 

 internotliis 3—7 cent, longis. Folia erecto-patcntia , crassiusculc mcm- 

 branacea , supra atro- viridia glabra baud splendentia nervis tribus lineata, 

 subtus glauca nervis fuscis prominulis hirtcllisque venulisquc transvcrsa- 

 libos tenuibus fnscisque instructa , ad Icntcm sparse et subtiliter jwllucido- 

 punctata venullsque pellucidis, petiolis 5 mm. longis semiterctibus anticc 

 canaliculatis , dense breviter fusee birtellis et lobo imparl obtectis sus- 

 tenta, latiuscule vel elliptico-lanceolata , 7 — 10 cent, longa, 2 J fere 



8| in medio lata , basi rotundata demidiato-cordata , lobo infcriore obtuso 

 intus vergente, marginibus subundulata, apice longiuscule acuminata, 

 acumine angusto obtuso mucronulato, trinervia nervis 3 ad apicem per- 

 currentibus . nervuloque nno subtili brevi in lobo baseos accessorio quasi 

 qaadrinervia , anastomosibas transversis borizontalibus pluribus unitis. 

 Stipula oppositilolia convoluta glabra fusca curvata ^ cent. longa. 



