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pedicellos florigeros et fructigeros paulo supcrantes, V/a mm v. demum circ. 2""" lon- 

 gae. — Pedicelli abbreviati, crassiusculi, sulcato-angulosi, glabri, calycem sub- 

 aequantes et a bracteis paulo superali, florigeri 1 — l'/s""" longi, fructigeri vix 2""" 

 longi. — Calyx 6 — 5-sepalus, niinutus, sepala persistentia ovato-oblonga, breviter 

 subacuininata. hyalino-marginata, glabra, circ. 1""" longa. — Petala alba (ex Gren. 

 et Godr. 1. c), valde exserta (ob sepala brevissima) 4— 5""" longa ; superiorum duo- 

 rum lamina late obovato-cuneata , appendiceni unguicularem 3-pIo quadruplove su- 

 perans, usque ad medium triloba, lobi subaequilongi, intermedius ovato-lanceolatus 

 v. inferne utrinque minute unilobulatus , laterales lere usque ad basin bipartiti v. sub- 

 integri v. lacinia exteriore tantum minuta praediti. Appendix unguicularis obovatus, 

 parvulus, hyalinus , supra laminae basin breve productus et ibi suberectus et margiue 

 denticulatus, ab ima insertione laminae ab bac discretus. Inferiora simplicia, exap- 

 pendieulata lineari-subspatbulata. — Tubus stamiualis valde abbreviatus, apice la- 

 tiuscule et profundius urceolatus et in membranulam (lilamenlorum basin mouadelpham) 

 subcarnosulam fere W""' longam productus et superiore latere in discum submem- 

 branaceum byalinum planum, margiue lacerato-denticulatum, caeterum glaberrimuiu 

 dilatatus. — Stamina saepius 14, 2""" longa; filamenta longius persistentia, e basi 

 latiuscula lineari-subulata , glaberrima ; antberae subglobosae sublatiores quam longae, 

 in genere minutissimae, tantum 2 / 3 """ longae, levissimae. Grana pollinis elongato- 

 ellipsoidea, '/so — '/W'"" longa. — Ovarium depresso-globosum, obtuse tetragonum, 

 dentibus 4 cylindricis elongatis ipsum subaequantibus erectis coronatum. — Ovula 

 in quavis placenta biserialia, approximata, 5 — S v. saepius 6. — Capsulae depresso- 

 obovoideae v. subglobosae, vix 3""" superanles, acute 4 v. 5 (raro 3— 2)-cuspidatae, 

 dentes circ. 1""" longi. — Semina abortu pauciora, saepius 5 — 12, levissima, sub- 

 opaca, 1""" longa. 



Habitat in Pyrenaeis (Specimina vidi copiosissima e multis Pyren. locis in hb. 

 DC. ! Boiss. ! Lecoq.I hb. propr. etc.), gallicis et hispanicis (En los montes de Nuria 

 y otros de los Pirineos (Colmeiro Cat. melh. p. IS)). Olim (an jure?) in Mont d'Or 

 citata (Delarbre 11. de TAuvergne p. 507 [1810]). 



au. abortiv a. 

 R. glauca Willd. hb. fol. 9226' p. 1 (!) et ex hb. Thunbg. in hb. DC. (!) 



Flores minores viriduli, petala multo simpliciora, capsulae subabortivae, minores, 

 viridulae. 



Ilorloi'um filia. 



