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ter plicata et interiora parnm angustiora plana ceternin conformia 

 equitautia, denique elliptico-coiicava, integerrima , tenera, pateutia, 

 absque calcare cucnl'oque. 



Staminn hypogyna, quatnor, decidna, toro in^erta, iuter se li- 

 bera et sibi conformia, cum petalis alfernantia; filamenta siinplicia, 

 brevia, subulata, inter se aequalia; atif/ierae basi affixae, anticae, 

 liueari-oblongae, macronulatae , omnes quadriloculares, locidis longi- 

 tudinaliter valvatim dehiscentibns , teuere membranaceis , conuec- 

 tivo inconspicuo. 



Ovarimn superura, sessile, orbiculare, compressum, uniloculare 

 ovulis 2 — 4 in placeutis d^uabus parietalibus intervalvularibus e 

 fundo loculi erectis, anatropis. Stylus siiiiplex filiformis, stignHtte 

 iucrassato, capitato-bilobo, papilloso. 



FrKctns desideratur, 



1. Pteridophyllmn racemosum Sieb, et Znccur. 



Species unica hncusque cognita herba es-t perennis, acaulis, rhi- 

 zoniate crassiusculo praemorso, radicibns fibrosis. Folia ex- 

 stipulata, oniiiia radicalia, petiolata, petiolo fnrfuraceo-squa- 

 muloso, pectinato-pinnatisecta cum impari; segmenta nnme- 

 rosa, snbopposita, approximata, inferiora sensim minora et 

 qnasi deliquescenfia, summum impar trilobum, reliqna lineari-ob- 

 longa, subfalcata, apicem versus parum latiora, rotundala et 

 serrulata, ceteruDi integerrima, basi in margine sursum spec- 

 tante munita auricula lanceolata vel deltoidea bi-vel triden- 

 tata, dentibus in setas longas terminatis, compage tenera, te- 

 nuissime veuosa, utrinque glabra. Scapi nudi, foliis longio- 

 res, simplices, in racemum simplicem Tel basi subramosum 



