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ovato-rotundalis brevissime acuminatis acumine obtusiusculo, 

 basi subaequali profunde cordatis lobis rotundatis param di- 

 vergentibus, 13-nerviis, nervis 3 mediis paullo supra basin 

 solutis^ medio costato, araenlis breviter pedunculatis, erectius- 

 culis rectis, bracleis inflexo-conchaeformibus vertice anguste 

 semilunari cilialo-hirtis. 



Habitat in sylvis humidis m. Cordillerorura Mexici alt. 

 3500 p., ad Vera Cruz (Galeotti! n. 6117 in Herb. De Less.) 



Frutex. Ramulus angalosus uno latere canaliculatus, striate- sulcatus 

 glaber laevis. Folia palula, subcoriacea vel potius membranacea, obso- 

 lete pellucido-punctata, supra atro-viridia, Jaevia, glabra, vis nitidula, 

 ad Icntem atomulis albidis conspersa, nervo costisque lineata, subtus pal- 

 lida, in ncrvulis prope margines decurrentibus puberula, cacterum utrin- 

 que glabra, petiolis 7 — 8 cent, longis glabris, antice margine stipu- 

 lari obsolete (an stipulis inflexis connatisque) auctis sustenta, ovato- 

 rotundata, basi subaequali profunde cordata, lobis latis rotundatis vix 

 divergcntibus, parum inaeqailatera n»arginibus planiuscola, apice brevis- 

 sime acuminata, acumine obtuse, 20—24 cent, longa, 14^ 19 lata, 



13-nervia, nervis 3 mediis paullo supra basin solutis, medio ad apicera 

 percurrente subpatulo-costato, reliquis versus margines divergcntibus ct 

 jnxta eos adscendentibns, infimis multo subtilioribns, omnibus prominen- 

 tibns, anastomosibHsque prominulis reticulatis conjunctis. Stipula op- 

 positiiolia coriacca glabra, lanceolata, carinato-complicata 2 cent, longa. 

 Amenta opposititblia erectinscula pedunculis 1*. cent, circiter longis 

 glabris sustenta, recta, cylindrica, apice obtusiuscula vel brevissime mu- 

 cronata, florentia 12 — 13 cent, longa, 3 — 4 mm. crassa. Flores den- 

 sissimi. Bracteae inflcxo-subconchaefbrmes, vertice glanduloso subsemi- 

 lunares, ciliatae. Stamina. . . antherae ovato-cordatae fuscae, biloculares, 

 loculis rima hiantibus. Baccae immaturae densae obovatac subtetragonae 

 vertice glandulosae glabrae concaviusculae (sec. sp. cit.) 



31. Artanthe melanostlcfa. Ramulis petiolis foliis- 

 que utrinque glabris, his junioribus pellueido-nunctalis, 

 adultis coriaceis, nitidulis, glandulis nigricanti-fuscis ubi- 

 que conspersis et tactu quodamraodo scabriusculis in- 

 aequilateris oblongis, basi inaequali uno latere rotundatis 

 altero acutis, apice paullo protracto obtnsis, marginibus in- 

 primis versus basin leviter revolutis, costis majoribus utrin- 

 que 5 adscendentibns, amentis patulis brevibus rostratis, 

 bracleis inilexo-peltatis ciliatis, ovariis tomentosis flavis, slig- 

 inatibus 3 — 4. 



