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(tot quot scpala) alba, superiora 4""" longa, lamina appendice paulo brevior circ. IVV"" 

 longa, pro ■*/•, longitudinis tripartita, lacinia intermedia lateralibns sesquilongior lineari- 

 spathulata. superne '//,""" lata, laterales late obovatae margine tindulatae et obiter 

 sinuatae v. fere integrae, circ. 1""" latae; appendix nngnicularis magnus, liyalinus 

 fere quadratus , SSV»™" longus et 2""" latus , intus supra laminae basin productus et ibi 

 rellexus, margine breviter papilloso-ciliatus. Inferiora 3°'™ longa, lamina ad laciniam 

 intermediani petalorum superiorum reducta, appendix parvus. — Tubus staminalis 

 brevis glaber, superiore latere in discum carnosulum, ovatum, subangulosum, mar- 

 gine late hyalinum, breviter papilloso-hirtellum productus. — Stamina circ. 24, circ. 

 5""" longa; lilamenta mox decidua, lineari-subulata, glabra; antherae elongato-ellip- 

 soideae, l'/2— 2""" longae, apice papillosulae. Grana pollinis globoso-ellipsoidea '/ ä0 u ' m 

 longa. Ovarium cylindricum, glabrum, breviter et turgide 3-dentatnm. — Ovula 

 in quavis placenta f'eracissima circ. 40-50, regulariter imbricato- 4-serialia. — Cap- 

 sulae erectae, subcylindricae, vulgo 2 cn ' longae, rarius longiores, obtuse trigonae, 

 breviter et obtuse tridentatae, (dentes vix 1""" longi, conniventes), glaberrimae, oli- 

 vaceo-virides, demum pallidae et subcoriaceae , ad latera saepe plicis transversalibus 

 approximatis eleganter notr>tae. Semina numerosissima (in Capsula bene evoluta 

 139 inveni), levissima, nitida, hippocrepico-reniformia , I—IV4 "" longa , radicula liilo 

 valde approximata. Caetera generis. 



Habita t in Hispania. In agris incultis regionis montanae, in ditione Alpujarras 

 dicta prope Lanjaron et inter Cadiar Ujijar, in parte inferiori montis Sierra de Gador 

 alt. 2000 4000 ped. s. m. (ßoiss. Voy. I. c), prope portum magnum (Webb It. 

 hisp. 1. c); in rupestribus prope pagum Frigiliana ad radices Sierrae Tejedae, in 

 montibus inter Nerja et Almunneras in glareosis prope Velez de Benandalla, ad ra- 

 dices Sierrae de Lujar (Willk. in Linn. 1852 p. 10); in collibtts sterilibus prope Vera 

 prov. Grenadae (Bourg. pl. exs. [1851] No. 1087 in hb. DC. !). 



21. R. Duriaeana. J. Gay. 



J. Gay. in Explorat. scientif. de l'Algerie t. 71 flg. 1 (icon pulcherrima absqne 

 diagn., 1846-47): /. Müll, in Bot. Zeitg. 1856 p. 38. 



Diagn. Pumila, caules parce ramosi, glabra: foliis inferioribus integris lanceo- 

 lato-spathulatis, caeteris ternato-incisis , laciniis lanceolatis; floribus hexameris circ. 

 18-andris, ochroleucis (?). dense ovoideo-racemosis: sepalis persistentibus snblineari- 



