18 ICONES PLANTARUM. 
Ovarium inferum, 1-loculare; stylus brevissimus, crassiusculus, stig- 
mate integro discoideo ; placenta i in centro loculi brevis, erecta, ovulis 
3 ab apice pendulis. Fructus j junior ovoideo-oblongus ; maturus adhuc 
non visus. 
This curious parasite, with the habit of some of the leafless Viscu, 
has nevertheless all the characters of a Santalacea, where sik — 
affinity appears to be with the Australian Leptomeria. —G. Brn 
Fig. 1. Male flower, seen from above. 2, One of the lobes with the stamen at i 
base. 3. Female flower. 4. The same, loiigirndinel section showing the ovary- ‘cell 
and placenta, with two of the ovules 
PuatE 1325. 
ARAGOA LYCOPODIOIDES, Benth. 
RercetULaiiaee: Tribe DiciTates. 
A. lycopodioides, Benth. sp. nov. ramulis lanatis, foliis glabris lobu- 
latis trigonis carinatisve sbutlassatee ineurvo-imbricatis, calycis lobis 
ovato-ellipticis margine apicem versus lanatis, corolle fa 
Has. New Granada, Purdie! Ocaiia, Schlim! attri) 
Frutee pyramidalis, 3-6-pedalis, ramosissimus, ramulis teretibus 
confertis lanatis. Folia 1-14 lin: longa multifariam oe ta. Flores 
breviter pedicellati v. subsessiles 4-4 poll. diam. “Calis foliolis conca- 
vis coriaceis dorso glabris. Corolla rotata, alba, lobis obovate obtusis, 
margine glabris. sane exserta. sula ovoidea calycem squans 
v. superans stylo filiformi persistente coronata, 
Differs from A. nt sigh in the lanate branches, much shorter leaves 
_and villous throat of corolla; from A. cupressina in the narrow trigo- 
nous or keeled aviay "which are not closely ers as in that 
species.—D. OLIVER. 
Fig. 1. Expanded fi 2, Stamen. te Section of calyx, gona pistil. 4. 
Calyx and capsule. 5, Portis of ultimate twig. 
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