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mnlto tenaiores, omnes anastomosibns transversis subtilibas jnnctae. Sti- 

 pala oppositifolia cito caduca, membranacea , oblongjo-ianceolata, aca- 

 minata, convoluto-carinata , glandulosa, postice ad nervulum mediam 

 puberula, 2 cent, fere longa. Amenta juniora subpatola, submatura 

 omnino deflexa, pedunculis tenuiusculis 1|- cent, fere longis, glabris 

 glandalosis post amenti fatura aliquando persistentibus suffulta, tlorentia 

 3, sabmatnra 3 — 4 cent, longa, rectiuscula, obtusa, 1 J, submatura 

 2 — 2' mm. crassa. Floras subannulatim dispositi. Bractcae pedicel- 

 iatae, peltatae, pelta triangulari glandulosa glabra subplana, marginibus 

 cxtenuatis lutesccntibus lacero.fimbriata , juniores subinflexae. Stamina 

 2 — 3? antherae dilute flavac, renilbrmes, loculis sulcatis, connective 

 inter loculos glanduloso emerso, nunc nigra. Bacca immatura obovata 

 tri- vel tetragona, vertice planiusculo glandulosa, verrucoso-umbonata. 

 Stigmata tria vidcntur filiformia (sec. spec, cit.) 



155. Artanthe adenandra. Ramulis petiolis peduncu- 

 lis foliisque subtus inprimis in neryis hirtis, his merabranaceo- 

 coriaceis subtiliter pellucido-punclulatiS; supra subopacis, sub- 

 tus pallidioribus , ovato-oblongis vel ovato-sublanceolatis, basi 

 aequali vel inaequali rotundatis aut acutis, apice obliquius lon- 

 geque acuminalis, costis primariis utrinque 5 — 6, amentis 

 patulis longe pedunculatis brevibus, pedunculo aequalibus vel 

 brevioribus, rostratis, rostro fisso, braeteis abbreviato-conchae- 

 formibus minutissime ciliatis, staminibus 2, loculis sulcatis 

 connectivo crasso transparenti-glanduloso utrinque adnatis, illo 

 his effoetis incrassato persistente. 



Habitat in Guyana gallica (Leprieur! 152 in Herb. Le Less.) 

 Species singularis, nuUae sectioni aptc adscribenda, ob foliorum formam 

 hnc collocata. Frutex dicliotome et alternatim ramosissiraus , nodosos, 

 ramis cylindricis snlnato-striatis subglabratis sordide fuscis, opacis, ra- 

 mulis in sicco tetragonis, striatis hirtis; internodia 2—7 cent, longa. 

 Incrcmentum longitudinale baud ad singulum nodum gemma lateral! 

 continuatur sed saepe terminali, laterali ramulum axillarem formante. 

 Folia erectiuscula, membranaceo-coriacea , subtiliter pellucido-punctata, 

 supra saturate viridia et subopaca, glabra, ad lentem glandulis nigris et 

 atomulis albis adspersa, subtus pallidiora subglaucescentia baud nitidula, 

 inprimis in ncrvis dense birta, aetate provecta paullo glabriora, petiolis 

 hirtis antice canaliculatis 5—6 mm. longis sustenta, ovato-oblonga vel 

 ovato-sublanceolata, non multum inaequilatera, basi aequali aut leviter 

 inaequali rotundata vel acutiuscula, apice longe et suboblique acuminata, 

 acumine obtusiusculo mucronato, mucrone demnm subdelitcscente , mar- 

 ginibns in sicco undulatis plana, 12— 14 <^nt, longa, 3i— 5 lata, fi 



