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data v. breviter acutata, apice obtusa v. summa costula brevissime 
apiculata, nune retusa v. emarginata (ad 10-19 cent. longa, 
3, 4 cent. lata), integerrima; margine reflexo, submembranacea, 
supra glabra penninervia reticulato-venosa, subtus pallidiora ; 
nervis venisque prominulis. Stipulae subulatæ (ad i cent. longs) 
lateraliter a basi petioli remotiusculæ. Flores fæminei (soli noti) 
3-meri; sepalis brevibus subinæqualibus; petalis multo lon- 
gioribus inæqualibus anguste linearibus incurvis (pallide viola- 
ceis). Staminodia 6, disco exteriora; antheris brevibus effeetis 
glabris. Glanduke disci 3, crassæ truncatæ oppositipetalee. Germen 
subsessile perianthio longius, 2-loculare; stylis 2 brevibus apice 
capilato subplano. Samaræ longiuseule (ad * cent.) pedicellatæ, 
basi perianthio haud aucto munitæ transverse ellipsoideæ v. sub- 
reniformes (ad 2 cent. longæ, 4 + cent. latæ), basi in stipitem lon- 
giuseulum (ad j cent.) repente attenuatæ, stylis (fuscatis) apice 
persistentibus ; nucleo compressiusculo, extus  reticulato; alis 
membranaceis obtusis venosis (in sicco lutescenti-purpuraseen- 
tibus). Semen ovato-compressum glabrum; albumine carnoso 
2-lamellato ; embryonis (pallide viridis) cotyledonibus albumine 
æqualibus ellipticis; radicula brevi supera. — Oritur in sylvis 
. schistosis montium Novæ-Caledoniæ, ubi leg. Pancher (herb !). 
Spec. S. tomentosæ haud absimilis. Flores constanter 3-meri ; samara 
late membranacea. 
(Sera continué.) 
