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9 Perigonium 6 mm long., styli divisiones 5 mm long., syn- 

 -carpium 1,4 cm diam. 



Aculei 1,5 — 0,5 mm longi. 



Arbor 20 — 30 m alta, ramosa, foliosa, libere tenacissimo, ab 

 incolis vario modo applicato (v. Mahagua). 



In sylvestribus ad El Recreo, Prov. Manabi, regionis litoralis, 

 iiaud infrequens. Fl. mense majo. 



(Hb. Ecuador. Eggersian. No. 15651.) 



2. Steriphoma Sprg. (Charact. gen. emend.). 



Caljx cylindraceo-campanulatus, apice 2 — 4 lobus, irregulariter 

 ruptus, intus basi squamulis 4 auctus. 



Torus brevia in discum annularem expansus. 



Petala 4, sessilia, aestivatione imbricata v. contorta, toro inserta, 

 aequales v. 2 antica paullo majora. 



Stam. 6 libera v. parte inferiore connata, ascendentia, aequalia 

 V. 2 postice breviora, filamentis in alabastro infracto-contortis 

 longe exsertis, antheris magnis. 



Ovarium ovatum v. cylindricum, gynophoro longo v. brevissimo 

 impositum, ob placentas 2 medio cohaerente bi-loculare ; ovula oo , 

 bi-seriata ; Stigma sessile centro subimpressum. 



Bacca glohosa v. toruloso — cylindrica, corticata, pulposa. 



Semina <x> , nidulantia, angulata, exalbuminosa, cotyledonibus 

 convolutis. 



Frutices erecti v. subscandentes, inermes, ramulis et in- 

 florescentiis stellatim pubescentibus. 



Folia longe petiolata, lanceolata, integerrima, petiolo apice 

 incrassatü v. geniculato. 



Racemi terminales, pedunculo crasso apice incrassato. 



Flores speciosi, aurantiaci v. albi. 



Species adhuc cognitae 4, americanae. 



Sect. I. Stam. libera, inaequalia, gynophorum staminum longi- 

 tudine aequans. Corolla aestivatione imbricata*). 

 Flores aurantiaci. 



St. cleomo'ides Sprg. (= St. paradoxum Endl.). 

 St. ellipticum Sprg. 

 St. peruvianum Spruce. 

 Sect. IL Stamina parte inferiore connata, aequalia. 

 Gynophorum brevissimum. 

 Flores aestivatione contorta, albi. 

 St. Urhani Eggers. 



St. Urhani Eggers (nov. sp.). 



Frutex erectus, ramis pendulis v. scandentibus. 



*) Fide cl. Endl. in „Flora". 1832. II. Tab. V. 



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