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tiö, calycibud aequilungis; floribus internis pedicellatis, externis 

 subsessilibus; calvclbus campanulatis costatis viridibus incano-pu- 

 berulis 3-dentatis, dentibus 2 inferioribus laiiceolatis acurainatis- 

 simis dein applicatie, superiori ovato acuminato dein complicato, 

 superne acute cariiiato, a latere compressis & faiices calycis clau- 

 dentibus; corolla calycem vix dimidium superante, extus puberuia, 

 tubo incluso, stylo breviter barbato; stigmatis lacinia superiors 

 reflexa; nuculis ovalibus conipressiusculis glaberrimis laevissimis 

 maculatis. 



Descrpï. Herba annua — ex liorto bot. Tjipaunas ob usnm se- 

 miuum in vicinias cultura transplantata et nunc prope vicura Patjet 

 & in jugo Kajumanis ubique sua sponte uberrime progrediens — 

 erecta, 3 — 6 ped. alta, robusta ramosissiraa. Caulis crassus i-angu- 

 laris viridis, ad nodos paulo incrassatus et ad latera profunde sulca- 

 tus, inferne I poll. crassus, minute subincano-pubescens, ab infi- 

 mis fere nodis cruciatim ramosus. Rami plerumque simplices, nunc 

 infimi pariter ramosi, cauli subsimiles, sed tenuiores et in primis 

 apicem versus densius pubescenti-tomentosi, erecto-pateutes, pos- 

 tremo delapsis foliis fere plantam totam paniculatam sistentes. 

 Petioli semiteretes superne leviter sulcati patentes , basi valde dila- 

 tati & cum oppusito linea protuberante juncti; ima basi juxta ramirm 

 protuberantia cristaeformi muriculata intenslus viridi notati, 3 — 

 2 — (ramorum) 1 — \ poll. longi. Folia opposita, pariter a basi apicem 

 raraorum versus sensim valde dim^nuta, ovata s. ovato -lanceolata 

 acuminata, basi rotundato - attenuata aut acuta, 6.J — 5 poll. Ion- 

 ga, 3 — 2/- poll. lata, suj^eriora oblongo-lanceolata acuminata, basi 

 acuta aut plerumque inaequaliter attenu;ita, 4 — 2|- poll. longa, 2 — 

 If poll. lata-, o??imrt supra l)asin integerrimam crenato-sei-rata, ser- 

 raturis mucronulato - apiculatis , supi'a atroviridia puberuia, sub- 

 tus molliter pubescentia subglaucescentia, nervo medio cum late- 

 ralibus pinnatis, suboppositis aut alternis, supra planis, sub- 

 tus valde prominulis, erecto-patentibus , intra marginem arcuato- 

 anastomosantibus et venis transversis inter se junctis, maculas sub- 

 rectangulares formantibus, venulis valde ramosis irregulariter re- 

 ticulatis, maculis 'secundariis saepe pentagonis, venulis multis in- 

 tra maculas libere desinentibus. Racemi in omnibus ramis termi- 

 nales, spicaetbrmes cylindrici deasissirai, haud (aut rarissime basi) 



