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NOUVKLLES ARCHIVES DO MUSEUM. 



Ovarium oblongo-ovoideum, paulo compressum, basi breviter 

 angustatum, ex uno latere medio paulo gibbosum longitudinaliterque 

 sulcatum, in stylum brevem apice stigmatifero truncatum attenuatum, 



glabrum 



pi 



parietali, funiculo compresso 



biseriatim altematimque inserta horizontalia vel paulo declivia, ortho- 



tropa. 



Fructus plerumque 3 cent, longus, 2 { cent, latus, erectus, ellip- 



m » * 



soideus, lateraliter compressus, antice posticeque carinatus, stylo infra 

 apicem mucronalus, lateribus convexis, irregulariter torulosis; epi- 



carpio extus glabro 



plus minusve pruinoso, mesocarpio 



carnoso, coriaceo ; endocarpio nucleum crassissimum lignosum effor- 

 mante extus anfractibus numerosis irregularibus ruminatum, loculis 

 6-7 superpositis oblique transversis, 1 \ cent, longis, medio tantum 

 ellipsoideo dilatatis, inde in substantia lignosa angustissime prolatis 



excavatum. 



Semina saepe sterilia, ovoidea, funiculo elongato filiformi appensa, 



in alam micropylarem planam subulatam, basi 3 mill, latam, 5 mill. 



longam expansa; integumento exteriore subcrustaceo fragili, interiore 



membranaceo; albumine nullo; embryone recto, radicula cuneata 



brevissima, cotyledonibus obovatis intus planis, dorso convexis. 



Cenarrhenes spathulce folia Ad. Br. et A. Gris, Ann. sc. nat., 5 e se>., 



t. III. 



Habitat in montibus prope Kanala (Vieillard, n # 1420) ; in collibus ferrugineis sinus Pronjr 

 dicti (Pancher; Balansa, n° 177); ad basim montis Humboldt (Balansa, n° 2294). 



