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siusculis snbsessilibiis, involucris cucullatis cillalis, floribus um- 

 bellatis, caule prostrato- repente. 

 Almindeh'g. 



Cailles piares , pédales et iillra , undlque prostrati , repenles, 

 ficandenies , articiilali , ter êtes , tenuisubne striali , glahri , alter- 

 natim ramosi : ramls dipergentihus. Folia line ar i ~ lame oh it a , acuta, 

 glaherrîma Qyilosiuscida) , hasi vaginantia : vagi/ils semipollicari- 

 bus , puhescentibus , ore cillaiis. Infloresccntia dum floret termina- 

 lis , deinde oppositifolia. Spatlia communis univalpis , suhrotunda, 

 ^ basi obtusissima, acuta, connipens, margine basées coalita , ner- 

 vosa, pilosa. Peduiiciiliis communis intra spatham eaque dimidio 

 brevior , tetragonus. Pedicelli sœpius quinque , umbellati, longitu- 

 dine spaihœ , florentes erecii , fructiferi intra spatham in occulta 

 reflex i. 



Periaiitliium triphyllum : foliolis inœqualihiis , hy alinis : duo- 

 bus injeriorihus duplo majoribus, opatis , oLtusis , concaris , 

 basi coalitis , deflexis , superiori opato - lanceolato , adscen- 

 dente. Corolla inœqualis , dipetala , caerulea : petalis suhrotundo- 

 cordatis , planis , adscendentibus ^ unguibus ccdycis longitudine. 

 Nectarium: corpuscula tria, crue i for mi a , ohtusa , Jiorizontalia, 

 flava , insidentia totidem fllamentis setaceis longitudine staminum, 

 basi pet alarum insertis , patulis. Filamenta tria, subulata , necta^ 

 rio opposita, corolla dimidio breviar a: intermedium erectum; 

 lateralia declinata , assurgentia. Antliera intermedia duplo 

 major, erecta, incurva, basi et dorso flssa ; laterales opatce , as- 

 surgentes. Germen superum , subrotundum , trigonum. Stylus sta- 

 minibus longior , declinaius , marcescens. Stigma obtusum. Cajisula 

 subrotunda, trigona, glabra, trilocularis , trivalvis. Semijia 

 aalitaria. Th. 



Variât corollis albis et purpnreis. Th.. 



2. C. Simplex, foliis lanceolato -ensiformibiis sessilibus 



