Piate 2684. 
SAPIUM SUBSESSILE, //emsl. 
EvupHorBiAce®. Tribe CROoTONE®. 
8. subsessile, /Zems/. (sp. nov.) ; a speciebus etre differt foliis 
sessilibus vel brevissime aloe limbo paulo supra basin glandulis 
binis sessilibus conspicuis instructo 
Frutex vel arbor parva ex affinitate S. a tree novellis omnino 
glabris. Ramuli ‘Acie cht internodiis quam foliis brevioribus. 
sub quaque bractea ag ggregati ; perianthium 2-phyllum ; stamina 2. 
Flores feminei solitarii ; perianthium 3-phyllum, phyllis rotundato- 
acuminatis ; ovarium 3-loculare, stylis elongatis recurvis ad mediu 
connatis persistentibus. /ructus ignotus. 
Brazit : Provinces of St. Paul and Rio de Janeiro, J. Weir, 315. 
Ancnsris Repusuic : without locality, Hieronyniws, 817, in ‘herb. 
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This species and S. marginatum, Muell. Arg., to which it is closely 
related, differ from all those previously figure or and described in this 
merous female flowers in the androgynous spikes, and in the 
lstnetly three-leaved perianth of the female fowers.—W. Bortine 
Fig. 1, stipules ; 2, base of a leaf seen re below; 3, portion of a a bearing a 
cluster of male flowers, bract and glands; 4, a det ached male flower; 5, portion of 
lay Nueiig a female flower, bract aud Phat ; 6, a female nase iceohal —All 
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