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filamentis teretiasoulis brevibas, antheris ovato-rcnitbrmibus, conneo 

 tivo {jlanduloso crasso. inter loculos sordide fuscos supra promiiiulo. Ova- 

 rium ovatura? acuminatum, stigmata 3? brevia adliuc conniventia- 

 Amentum immaturum antlieris fusee viridibus, nee braetcis extus ob- 

 tegitur (sec. sp. Herb. De Less.) 



179. Artanthe hymenophylla. Ramulis peliolis foHis- 

 que subtus in nervis pilis brevibus recurvatis, supra in nervo 

 medio appressis, subtilissime puberulis, his tenuissime mem- 

 branaceis, inprimis juxta nervos sparse pellucido-punctulatis, 

 utrinque nitidulis, elliptico- vel subovalo-lanceolatis lanceola- 

 lisque, basi inaequali rotundatis vel acutis, apice acurainatis, 

 costnlis utrinque 6, araentis cylindricis brevibus, pedunculo 

 petiolani multum superante, baccis discrelis obovatis subangu- 

 losis vertice concavis uuibonatis, junioribus sligmatibus 3—4 

 lanceolatis recurvis puberulis, coronatis. 



Habitat in Surinamo (Hostmann! n. 217 in Herb. De Less.) 



Frntex subsucculentus basi radicans, Tiridescens, parum nodosas, ra- 

 mis tereliusculis vel subanjrulosis, striatis, ramulis pilis minutis curva- 

 lato-retrorsis supra subpubescentibas, inlerne glabratis, internodiis 3—11 

 cent, longis. Folia erecto-patnia , transparenli-membranacea, punctis 

 sparsis inprimis juxta nervos perforata, utrinque nitidula, raroopaca, sapra 

 in nervo medio parvis pilis appressis instructa, subtus parum pallidiora, 

 in nervo coslis venulisque pilis minutis curvulatis retrorso-patulis sabpu- 

 bernla, petiolis antice canaliculalis pilis brevibus subretrorso-patulis ob- 

 tectisi— 5 mm. longis sustcnla, elliptico- vel subovalo-lanceolata, laneeata 

 vel lanceolata , inaequilatera , basi inaequali rotundata , truncata vel cu- 

 neato- acuta, apice longiuscule acuminata, acumine acuto, 9—11 cent, 

 longa, 2^— 3J lata; e nervo medio percurrente subtus prominente utrin- 

 que usque ad f all. 5—6 costae tenues patulo-adscendentes (multaeqne 

 tenuiores raagis borizontales) exoriuntur quarum summa per anastomoses 

 ad apicem ducta, iolcriores tenues, omnes reticulato-anastomosantes pro- 

 minulae; in sicco subfuscescentes. Amentum adest unicum baccis 

 maluris nigris discretis onustum, erectiusculum , pedunculo puberulo 

 fere 2 cent, longo sustcolum, li cent, circiter longum, cylindricum, 

 obtusum, 6 mm. crassnm. Baccae obovatae vii angulosae, vertice coa- 

 caviufculae umbonalae, atrae, nitidulae. Pericarpium tenue. Semen 

 conformc, lacte fuscum nitidulum. Ovaria sterilia ovata. stigmatibus 

 3—4 lineari-lanccolatis recurvatis puberubs. Antherae reniformes. Brac- 

 teae inter baccas omnino absconditac, anconchaeformi-inflcxae,puberulaer 

 basi baccae adnatae? (sec. sp. cit.) 



