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X. Descriptions of a new Genus of Plants named Araujia, and of a 

 new Species of Passifiora. By Felix de Avellar Brotero, Professor 

 of Botany in the University of Coimhra, F.M.L.S. 



Read November 7, 1815. 



ARAUJIA. 



Character Genekicus. 



Calyx magnus, profundi quinquepartitus, persistens. Corolla 

 campanulata, basi subglobosa, quinquegibba, tubo infra me- 

 dium coarctato, limbo quinquefido. Nectaria sacculi quinque 

 gibbosi, in fundo corollas inter antherarum filamenta decurren- 

 tia, in quorum decursu squama horizontalis et auricula termi- 

 nalis. <S<i//«duo brevissimi ; 5'//gw2a utrisque commune ovatum, 

 apice bicorni. Folliculi duo oppositi, deorsum flexi, coriaceo- 

 fungosi, subovales, semi-biloculares : dissepimento eorum ad 

 centrum, seu medium, protenso, utrinque multilamellato. Se- 

 mina numerosa, lamellis dissepimenti adhaerentia, coma longa 

 sericiformi coronata. 



Araujia sericofera. 



A. caule fruticoso, scandente ; foliis cordatis, integerrimis, gla- 

 bris, ad petioli apicem glandulosis ; racemis paucifloris. 



Radix perennis, ramosa, serpens. 



Caulis fruticosus, debilis, scandens, teres, glaber, infernfe pennae 

 anserinae supernfe gallinaceae crassitudine, tres quatuorve pedes 



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