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  MALME, 
  ASCLEPIADACE^ 
  PARAGUAYENSES. 
  

  

  Habitu 
  (caule, 
  foliis, 
  inflorescentiis) 
  Oxypctalnm 
  Martii 
  Foukn. 
  (cfr. 
  

   Malme, 
  Asclep. 
  Regn 
  Herb., 
  p. 
  61) 
  miro 
  inodo 
  in 
  niemoriam 
  revocat, 
  abs 
  quo 
  

   floribus 
  majoribus 
  et 
  prsesertim 
  retinaculi 
  caudicularumque 
  indole 
  longe 
  rece- 
  

   dit; 
  re 
  vera 
  O. 
  capitato 
  Mart. 
  & 
  Zucc. 
  affine. 
  

  

  O. 
  clavigeriim 
  Spencee 
  Moore 
  [Träns. 
  Linn. 
  Soc. 
  of 
  London, 
  2:nd 
  Ser. 
  

   VoL 
  ly. 
  part. 
  3 
  (1892), 
  p. 
  397] 
  peraffine, 
  quocuni 
  forsan 
  species 
  nostra 
  sit 
  

   conjungenda, 
  nobis 
  tantum 
  e 
  descriptione 
  notum, 
  foliis 
  pro 
  rata 
  latioribus, 
  flo- 
  

   ribns 
  minoribus 
  (corollee 
  tubo 
  3 
  mm. 
  longo, 
  lobis 
  4 
  mm. 
  longis), 
  coronse 
  squamis 
  

   pro 
  rata 
  latioribus 
  (3,5 
  mm. 
  longis, 
  2 
  mm. 
  latis) 
  et 
  styli 
  rostro 
  multo 
  longiore 
  

   (2,5 
  mm. 
  longo) 
  recedit. 
  De 
  retinacnlo, 
  caudiculis, 
  polliniisqne 
  nihil 
  affert 
  cele- 
  

   berr. 
  Spencer 
  Moore. 
  

  

  O. 
  (Schizostemma) 
  Hasslerianum 
  Chodat 
  (1899). 
  

   Chodat, 
  Plantse 
  Hasslerianse, 
  p. 
  79 
  (e 
  descriptione 
  brevi). 
  

  

  Herba 
  perennis, 
  erecta, 
  usque 
  ad 
  »1 
  m. 
  älta» 
  (Hassler); 
  

   caulis 
  teres, 
  cireumcirca 
  pilis 
  sat 
  longis, 
  patentissimis, 
  in 
  

   sicco 
  lutescentibus 
  tomentosus, 
  internodiis 
  3 
  — 
  5 
  cm. 
  longis. 
  

   Folia 
  snbmembranacea, 
  ± 
  erecta 
  v. 
  erecto-patentia, 
  brevipetio- 
  

   lata 
  v. 
  subsessilia 
  (petiolo 
  vulgo 
  1 
  — 
  4 
  mm. 
  longo), 
  inferiora 
  ovata, 
  

   usqne 
  ad 
  6 
  cm. 
  longa, 
  2,5 
  cm. 
  lata, 
  basi 
  cordata, 
  sinu 
  brevi, 
  

   apertissimo, 
  apice 
  acuta 
  v. 
  breviter 
  acuminata, 
  superiora 
  

   oblonga 
  v. 
  rarius 
  ovato-oblonga, 
  3 
  — 
  5 
  cm. 
  longa, 
  0,76 
  — 
  1,75 
  cm. 
  

   lata, 
  basi 
  leviter 
  cordata 
  v. 
  rotundato-truncata, 
  apice 
  breviter 
  

   acnminata 
  v. 
  obtusa 
  mucronataque, 
  omnia 
  supra 
  pilis 
  sat 
  spar- 
  

   sis, 
  mollibus 
  pubescentia, 
  subtus 
  pilis 
  crebrioribns, 
  mollibus, 
  

   in 
  sicco 
  ssepe 
  lutescentibus 
  tomentosa. 
  Inflorescentiae 
  extraaxil- 
  

   lares, 
  alternse, 
  sat 
  pauciflorse, 
  umbellseformes 
  v. 
  capitatee; 
  

   pedunculus 
  2 
  — 
  3 
  ( 
  — 
  4,5) 
  cm. 
  longus, 
  erecto-patens, 
  sat 
  validus; 
  

   pedicelli 
  breves, 
  2 
  — 
  4 
  mm. 
  longi, 
  teque 
  ac 
  pedunculus 
  tomen- 
  

   tosi, 
  bracteis 
  bracteolisque 
  subulatis, 
  usque 
  ad 
  3 
  mm. 
  longis. 
  

   Calycis 
  lobi 
  faucem 
  (seu 
  basin 
  loborum 
  corollte) 
  attingentes 
  

   v. 
  nonnihil 
  superantes, 
  lanceolati 
  v. 
  anguste 
  triangulari-lan- 
  

   ceolati, 
  circiter 
  6 
  mm. 
  longi, 
  2 
  mm. 
  lati, 
  acuti, 
  extus 
  (dorso) 
  

   tomentosi, 
  intus 
  puberuli; 
  glandulse 
  calycinse 
  sat 
  magnse, 
  ovoi- 
  

   deo-fusiformes, 
  acutee, 
  vulgo 
  quinee. 
  CoroUae 
  tubus 
  urceolato- 
  

   campanulatus, 
  et 
  extus 
  et 
  intus, 
  prsesertim 
  fauce, 
  brevipilosus; 
  

   lobi 
  patentissimi 
  v. 
  demum 
  reflexi, 
  paullulum 
  spiraliter 
  torti, 
  

   e 
  basi 
  circiter 
  3 
  mm. 
  lata 
  sensim 
  angustati 
  v. 
  sublineares, 
  

   8 
  — 
  9 
  mm. 
  longi, 
  apice 
  obtusissimi, 
  subtus 
  (dorso) 
  pubescentes, 
  

   supra 
  glabri. 
  Coronae 
  squamse 
  imo 
  tubo 
  corollse 
  adnatse, 
  inter 
  

   sese 
  plane 
  liberse, 
  submembranaceai, 
  ovatae, 
  usque 
  ad 
  5 
  mm. 
  

   longse, 
  3,5 
  mm. 
  latse, 
  acuminata^, 
  apice 
  sat 
  breviter 
  v. 
  fere 
  ad 
  

  

  