Serjania. 153 



112. S. brachycarpa Asa Gray in scheda Herbarii Berlandieriana Texano-Mexicani 

 n. 2366!, anno 1859 cum Hb. Parisiensi communicata; Radlk. Serj. Monogr. (1875) 259, 

 Suppl. (1886) 134; Hemsl. Biol. Centr.-Am. Bot. I. (1879-1881) 205 n. 3; Watson in 

 Proc. Amer. Ac. XVII. (1882) 337, coli. Palmer n. 125!; Urbina in La Naturaleza VI. 

 (1882 — 1884) 223 (transl. Wats.); Coulter, Phaner. West. Texas in Contrib. U. S.Nation. 

 Herb. II. 1. (1891) 65; A. Gray, Synopt. Fl. North Am. I. 1, Fase. 2 (ed. Robinson 1897) 

 443. — Scandens, fruticosa, inermis, subhirsuta; rami juniores 5-sulcati, adultiores e 

 5-angulari subteretes, pilis crispulis patulis subhirsuti, cortice fusco; corpus lignosum 

 simplex, 5-angulare; folia biternata; foliola terminalia ovato-lanceolata, in petiolulum 

 attenuata, lateralia ovata, sessilia, omnia mucronulata, pauciserrata, supra praesertim 

 in nervis breviter hirsuta, subtus molliter villoso-tomentosa (insuper supra subtusque 

 glandulis minutis ornata), membranacea, fuscescentia, punetis pellucidis minutissimis 

 obsolete notata, epidermide mucigera; petiolus communis subteres, petioli partiales 

 (praesertim intermedius) apicem versus anguste marginati, omnes subhirsuti; thyrsi 

 solitarii, nee non in ramulis lateralibus paniculatim congesti. minores, teneriores, sat 

 dense cincinniferi, cincinnis graciliter stipitatis; flores parvi; sepala omnia pube crispa 

 brevi subtomentosa; petalorum squamae cristis sat elatis bicorniculato-bifidis instruetae; 

 stamina hirsuta; fruetus sectionis parvus, brevissime cordato-ovatus, basi dilatatus, 

 puberulus, endocarpio glabro; semen infra medium loculum insertum, ellipsoideum; 

 cotyledones rectiusculae. 



Rami thyrsigeri diametro 1,8 mm. Folia inferiora circ. 10 cm longa, fere totidem 

 lata; foliola terminalia petiolulo 1 cm longo adjeeto 4,5 cm longa, 2,2 cm lata; foliola 

 lateralia decrescentim minora, infima 1,4 cm longa, 1,1 cm lata; petiolus communis et 

 intermedius 2,5 cm, laterales 1,5 cm longi; stipulae minutae, ovato-triangulares. Thyrsi 

 2,5 — 7 cm longi; cincinni abbreviati, 5 — 7-flori, stipite tenui 2 — 3 mm longo suffulti; 

 pedicelli 1,5 — 2 (fruetiferi 2 — 3) mm longi, infra medium articulati; alabastra obovoidea, 

 1,5 mm longa, 1,2 mm lata. Flores: Sepala interiora 2 cm longa, tertium et quintum 

 infra medium saepius coalita. Petala 2,5 mm longa, 0,8 mm lata, spathulata, apice 

 obtusa vel acutata, intus glanduligera; squamae (cristis exclusis) petala dimidia aequan- 

 tes, superiores crista squama dimidia breviore bifida (laciniis divaricatis vel suberectis 

 corniformibus acutis vel obtusiusculis), inferiores crista apice inaequaliter bifida in- 

 struetae. Tori glandulae ovatae, inferiores minores. Stamina hirsuta; antherae 

 glabrae. Germinis rudimentum puberulum. Fruetus 1 cm vix excedens, totidem latus, 

 apice angustior, basi et apice excisus, sub loculis tumide lenticularibus dorso carinatis 

 ecristatis paullulum constrictus, praesertim in loculis puberulus vel praeter glandulas 

 punetiformes glabratus, pericarpio tenui, obsolete reticulato-nervoso, endocarpio char- 

 taceo glabro vel circa seminis insertionem pilis nonnullis adsperso. Semen ellipsoideum, 

 nigro-fuscum, hilo ad basin sublaterali. 



In Texas prope urbem Victoria, in sepibus: Berlandier, Hb. Texano-Mexic. 

 n. 2366 = 936! (m. Dec. 1831; Hb.Par., Hook., DG.), n. 2271! (Victoria de Tamahipas, 

 m. Nov. 1830, fruet.; Hb. Franquev.); Palmer n. 125! (Corpus Christi Bay, South 

 Western Texas, 1879-80; Hb. Kew.). 



Sect. XI. Physococcus Radlk. 



113. S. Grosii Schlechtend. in Linnaea XVIII. (1844) 42 (sphalm. 58), »Mexico, 

 leg. Gros«!; Walp. Rep. V. (1845-1846) 359; Radlk. Serj. Monogr. (1875) 261, Suppl. 

 (1886) 134, in J. Donnell Smith, Enum. Guatem. II. (1891) 11 A, coli. n. 2104! et ibid. 

 II. (1893) 20, coli. n. 1956! et in Loesener, PI. Seier. I. in Bull. Hb. Boiss. 2.ser. III.3. 

 (1903) 209, coli. n. 1898!; P. C. Standley, Treek and Shrubs of Mexico in Contr. U. S.Nat. 

 Herb. XXIII. 3. ^1923) 697. - S. Grayii, sphalm. loco Grosii, Hemsl. in Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Bot. I. (1879— 1881) 206 n. 12 (et ex hoc 1. transl. in Anal. Mus. Nac. Republ. 

 Costa Rica I. 2. [1888] 19). — Scandens, fruticosa, glabra; rami leviter 5 — 6-sulcati, 

 obtusanguli, cortice fuscescenti-viridi; corpus lignosum simplex, leviter sulcatum; folia 



