B8 



carinae supra basin adgliitinatas eaque paulo 

 breviores; slyli pars inferior in ulroque genere 

 pariler tenera et apex verlicalis rigidior ; difFe- 

 renlia inter utrumque genus praeprimis in calycis 

 structura ponenda , lomentis in utroque sibimet 

 perquam siniilibus. 



Quoad Speciem. Cf. DC. Prdr. 11.323. 1. Wld. 

 Sp. pi. JII. 1177. 17. (ubi descrpt.) Herba annua 

 simplex 12 — 15 pil, alta aut dein suifrutescens 

 2— S-ennis 3 — 3,5-pedalis ramosa ; rami (caules) 

 teretes virides tninutissime hamulosi dein glabrius- 

 culi; stipulae lineari-subulatae 0,3 poll. longae 

 Ciliatae marcescenti-deciduae; pelioli palenles s. 

 patentissirni tereles , supra angustissime canalicu- 

 lali 1,0 — 0,4 poll. longi plerumque foliolo unico 

 terminali praediti ; slipeilae minutae filiformes ad 

 basin folioli et hinc ille supra medium pelioli; 

 foliolum transversum ellipticum s. oblongum nunc 

 semilunare subbilobum , lobis singulis subfalcatis , 

 1,3—0,6 poll. longum , 5 — 0,25 poll. latum 

 2-3-nervium, minute hamuloso-puberulum dein 

 glabratum, in plautis junioribus lurido-alro-san- 

 giiineum justa nervos luride roseo-piclum , in se- 

 nllibus luride rubicundo-atroviride, juxta nervos 

 pallide pictum ad margines laele viride, pulcher- 

 rime reticulatum subtus glaucescens (in junioribus 

 pariter rubicundum) in petiolo pendulum et lusu 

 ■ventorum maxime mobile ; racemi terminales s. in 

 rnmis axillaribus terminales primo conico-oblongi 

 bracteis imbricatim tecli ; bracleae ovato-lanceo- 

 latae acumiaatae concavae hamuloso-puberulae 



