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zontalibus prope insertionem petioli 0.5 cm. longe margi- 

 nalibus. Cirrhi simplices. Flores c. 15 ad apicem pedun- 

 culi robusti glabri 13—16 cm. longi sessiles, dense spicati; 

 spica sine floribus c. 8 mm. longa. Calyx floris S viridis, 

 subcylindricus extus minute sparseque hirsutus, striatus, 

 c. 1 cm. longus prope basin c. 2 mm. latus intus glaber 

 prope apicem 1 mm. latus, intus villosus; lobi calycis 

 acuti c. 1 mm. longi, 0.75 mm. lati. Petala rubra, obovata, 

 obtusa, basi constricta dense breviterque tomentosa, in 

 floribus evolutis c. 5 mm, longa, 3 mm. lata, nervis 

 crassis distinctis. Antherae rectae, c. 3 mm. longae, 

 appendice obtusa minima fere obsoleta, loco insertionis 

 in medio antherae c. 3 mm. a basi calycis remoto. Flores 

 feminei et fructus ignoti. 



llab. Surinam, am oborcn Pikien Rio bei Komoprati: 

 .J. Tresling n. 252 bl. am 27 Juli 1908. 



Compositae. 



Neurolaena lobata R. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XII, 

 (1817). 120. 



Surinam: Hostmann n. 257. 

 Vcrbr. : Antillen, Mexico, Columbia, 



Uteecht, Botanisches Institut der 

 Universitiit, im Sept. 1909. 



