— 9812 — 
rectangularibus, obtusis paullo breviora. Staminodia 0. In flore 9 
ovarium glabrum, stylo subbreviore. Cupula plana, perianthii lobis per- 
sistentibus, auctis coronata. 
Frutex v. arbor ramulis apice minute piloso-tomentellis, glabratis fusco-cinereis 
demum cinereis, subteretibus, gemmis cinereo-tomentellis, cortice esipido. Folia petiolis 
usque ad 7 mm longis, laminä sequente dilatatis, ecanaliculatis, sparsa, rigida, praeter 
costarum axillas subtus barbellatas et foveato-domatiatas subglabra, subnitida, late et 
nonnunquam suborbieulari-elliptica v. obscure obovata, basi breviter acuminata, apice 
obtuse acuta v. acumine quasi mucronulato imposito obtusa, + 35 mm longa, 20 mm 
lata, penninervia, utrinque prominenti-reticulata, costis supra sulcato-immersis e nervo 
medio sub angulo 45— 65? prodeuntibus, margine incurvato. Inflorescentia subpauci- 
flora, in ramulorum apice subcorymboso-panniculata, parce pilosa, folia subaequans, pedicellis 
1—3 mm longis, bracteolis subpersistentibus. Flores dioici, cg ignoti, Q parce pilosi, 
3 mm longi. Perianthii tubus nullu. Limbi segmenta late ovata, acuta. 
Filamenta (in flore Q) parce pilosa, antheris paullo breviora; seriei III, glandulis binis 
longe ab illorum basi remotis, majusculis, globosis, sessilibus aucta. Antherae rectan- 
gulares, apice obtusae. Staminodia abortiva. Ovarium glaberrimum, subglobosum, 
stylo subbreviore, percrasso, stigmate maximo, pulvinato-discoideo. Bacca ellipsoidea, 
25 mm longa, 11 mm diam., basin versus valde attenuata, apice discoideo-obtusa stylique 
rudimentis aucta, cupulae planae, perianthii lobis valde auctis, persistentibus coronatae, 
elavatim in pedicellum solemniter inerassatum attenuatae insidens, tota exserta, Em- 
bryo cotyledonibus hemiellipsoideis, apice acutis, corculum haud longe includentibus. 
Plumula glabra radiculaque brevissima, obtusa, 
Hab. in Boliviae septentrionalis Andium nemoribus prope Sorata, regione temperata: 
Mandon n. 1048. 
Floret Novembri, (V. s. in herb. Boiss.- Barbey., Mus, Brit., Candoll., Goetting,, 
Holn., Kew., Vindob.) 
Obs. In embryone unico plumulam monophyllam, anomalam vidi. 
104, Ocotea Langsdorffli Mez. Folia coriacea, glaberrima, lan- 
ceolata v. ovato-lanceolata, utrinque acuta v. apice obtusiuscule acuta, 
penninervia, utrinque prominenti-reticulata. Inflorescentia laxe pannicu- 
lata, glaberrima, foliis brevior. Flores dioici glaberrimi. Periantbii tubus 0. 
Filamenta glabra, antheris subrectangularibus, obtusis subduplo breviora. 
Staminodia O. In flore 9 ovarium glabrum, stylo subaequilongo. 
Oreodaphne Langsdorffii Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XV, 1, p. 128 et 
in Mart, fl. Bras. V, 2, p. 225. 
Frutex 1—3 m altus (ex Riedel!) ramulis glaberrimis, plus minus glauco-pruinosis, 
subangulatis v. crassioribus teretibus, gemmis glaberrimis, cortice adstringente, esipido, 
Folia petiolis usque ad 20 mm longis, solemniter dilatatis, ecanaliculatis,' sparsa, coriacea, 
glaberrima, lanceolata v. ovato-lanceolata, basi acuta, apice obtusiuscule acuta v. acuta, 
+ 80 mm longa, 15 mm lata, penninervia, utrinque elegantissime perlaxeque prominenti- 
reticulata, costis e nervo medio sub angulo 20 (ad basin) —45° (apice) prodeuntibus, 
margine minute recurvo v. subplano. Inflorescentia pauciflora, laxe squarroseque 
