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per sterilem gerentla. — Flores lutei niediocres, in racemos primuin ovoideo-acu- 

 niinatos densos apice brevissime coniosos, dein laxiores et pediceliis niao;is patentibus 

 latiores, 3 — 4"" aequantes dispositi. — Bracteae (siib fructibus junioribus) persi- 

 stentes, lineari-lanceolatae , dorso subcarinatae et parce papiiloso-asperae, ad uiar- 

 gines ang^uste albidae, et more R. lanceolatae a basi bidentlculata usque ad apicem 

 subdistanter papilloso- et subinciso-dentatae, 3'/^— 4""" longae. — Pcdiceili sub- 

 riffiduli. erecto-patuli v. dein magis patuli, florigeri saepius 7 — 8""" longi v. breviores, 

 profunde sulcato-anffulosi. papilloso-asperuli. — Calyx hexasepahis, sepala persi- 

 stentia, subaqualia, oblongo-lanceolata, v. saepius lanceolato-spathulata, obtusa, sub- 

 glabra v. extus niinutissiine papillosula, vix perspicue albido-niarginata , 2— S'/^j""" 

 longa. — Pelala lutea, 4'" ' longa, iainina duoruni superiorum fere usque ad basin 

 3-partita, lacinia intermedia lineari-spatlnilala, lateralibus fere duplo brcvior, laterales 

 ovato-sublunatae obtusae, circ. duplo longiores quam latae, interiore latere concavo 

 subinteorae exteriore convexo leviler repando-dentatae; appendices luteoli v. sub- 

 hyalini, ovato-elliplici v. obovati, lamina paulo breviores, supra basin ejus paulo 

 producti ibique recurvato-inflexi, margino undique longiuscule et dense papilloso- 

 ciliati. Lateralium lamina ut superiorum sed lacinia lateralis inferior intermediae similis 

 nee lata. Inferiorum lamina subaequaliter 3-laciniata, laciniae lineari-spathulatae. — 

 Tubus staminalis abbroviatus, crassiusculus, parce papillosus, ab axi pedicelll valde 

 declinalus, superiore latere in discum carnosulum l'/,, — 1'/2""" latum, marginem ver- 

 sus subhyaiinum, longiuscule et dense papilloso-birsutum demum subampliatum pro- 

 ductus. — Stamina saepius IG, circ. 31/2'"'' longa; lilamenta mox decidua, lincari- 

 subulata, sub antberis dilatata, Icvia v. minutissime papillosula; anlberae ellipsoideae, 

 rotundato-oblusae, basi cordato-bilobae, tota superlicie punctulis papillosis minutissi- 

 mis subacutis birleilae. Grana pollinis subgloboso-ellipsoidea, circ. '/^s""" longa. — 

 Ovarium obovoideum , obtuse trigonum v. sublercs, basi in slipitem brevem abrupte 

 altenualum , apice 3-donlatum , (denies subleves ovario duplo breviores depresso- 

 ovoidei turgidissimi minute apiculati), papillulis ovoideo-oblongis hyalino-luteolis un- 

 dique densissime subecbinulatum. — Ovula in quaque placenta 8 10, biserialia. — 

 Capsulae juniores ovariis similes undique dense papillosae, demum pendulae. Matu- 

 ras non vidi. Semina maxime juvenilia iis R. Duriaeanae (pioad formam similia, 

 forte levia. 



Jlabital in Africa boreali circa Constantine (Sejourne in bb. Fauch«5, nunc hb. 

 Boiss! spccimina duo florigera). 



