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omnino (si excipias bracleas quasdam squamiformes) denudati, ferc onines candcm 

 altitudinom attingentes, omnesque in raccmos anguste cylindricos fere spicifornies 

 laxe pauciiloros abeuntcs. — Folia parva, suhcarnosula, mox decidua, lineari- v. 

 lanceolato-spallmlata, olitusa, integerriina, omnino glabra, basi minute bidenlicnlata, 

 V2 — IV2 "" longa. — Flores ignoli. — Bracteae foliaceac (ut in 11. scoparia), sub- 

 sqiiamaefornies, ovalae, subobtusac, 1 — V/2""" tanttim longae, itnmarginatae longeque 

 persistentes. — Pedicelli abhreviati, l'ructigeri 2—3°'" longi, bracteas subduplo su- 

 perantes, apice incrassati, tereles, glaberrimi. — Calyx 6-sepalus, sepala dcmiiin 

 decidna, aeqnalia, obovata v. ovala rotnndalo-obtnsa, glabra, 2""" longa. — Petala 

 (band obvia;. — Tubus staminalis glaher apice circumcirca apiceni in disciun cir- 

 eulareni (nee unilateralem) 2-VV'"" latiun. carnosulmn (in sicco pallide aurantiacum) 

 margine redexuni et sepala deprim entern ginberrimum expanstis. — Capsula sessilis 

 inllato-ovoidea, tenuiter-meinbranacea minutissime papilloso-birtnla et Rntaccarnm 

 more glandnloso-punctata, basi parum altenuata, apice contraeta dentibus tribus vix 

 IV2" "" lougis erectis (snbparallelis) acutis tricuspidata, circ. 10—12""" longa. — Se- 

 mina 2— 2 l /3""" longa, levia, pallide ochrolcuca, vix nitidula ad margines carpidio- 

 rum cum ovulis abortivis plurimis biserialibus mixta. (Fertilia non obvia). 



Habital in regno Mascate v. in Persia australi. (Ancber-Eloy. pl. exs. No. 4179 

 in hb. ßoiss.! specialen unicum et valde incompletum). Nulli generis affinis, et qui- 

 dem ab omnibus disco orbiculari (nee unilaterali) et capsulis glanduloso-pnnetatis di- 

 versa, Ochradeno baccalo babitu (quoad fragmenta) subsimilis, unde nomen. 



18. R. Alphonsi. Nob. (Tab. nostr. VII, Fig. 102.) 



R. atriplicit'olia Balansa pl. exs. (1854) non J. Gay. 

 R. Alpbon si J. Müll, in Bot. Zeilg. 1856 p. 35. 



Diagn. Elala, speciosa, glabra: foliis omnibus integris laneeolatis utrinque atte- 

 nuatis erectis, floribus liexameris circ. 18-andris ochrolencis dense elongato- et co- 

 moso-racemosis ; sepalis mox deeiduis lanceolato-spathnlatis petalaqne paulo superan- 

 tibus; petalis omnibus inter se similibus, laminae profunde 3-partitae laciniis integris 

 subaequilongis anguste lanceolalo-spatbulatis rotundato-oblusis ; lilamentis mox deei- 

 duis lineari-subulatis glabris; capsulis erectis parvis subovoideo-ellipsoideis obscure 

 tridentatis ore truncatis et late apertis glabris, seminibus parvulis minute (sed argute) 

 scrobicnlato-rngosis, radicula a bylo distante. 



