Astrococcus, Haematostemon. 



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tiolus 3 — 5 mm longus, pubescens; limbus 9 — <3 cm longus, 2 — 4 cm latus, lanceolatus 

 vel oblongo-lanceolatus, cuspidatus, mucronatus, ima basi obtusus vel subbiauriculatus, 

 glanduloso-denticulatus, subtus in costis brevissime puberulus, supra ad costam mediam 

 parce pilosus, membranaceus; costae secundariae utrinque ± 9, tenues. Racemi folia 

 aequantes, simplices, fere a basi florigeri, pubescentes, graciies; bracteae lineares, 2 — 3 mm 

 longae, demum reflexae; pedicelli (^ i mm longi, Q paulo longiores, reflexi. Alabastra 

 rf evoluta \ Y2 mm lata; sepala extus pubescentia, intus pube arachnoidea veslita, ovala, 

 acuta, Sepala Q lineari-lanceolata, acuminata, 2V4 ^^ longa. Carpidia absque cornubus 

 iis aequilongis elongato-conicis , rubescentibus 7 mm longa, rotundato-obtusa. Semina 

 laevia. — Fig. \{Ä, B. 



Provinz des Amazonenstromes: Brasilien, Alto Amazonas, Rio Negro, bei 

 S. Gabriel da Cachoeira (Spruce n. 2090 !). 



Fifi. \\. Astrococcics cornutus Benth. A Flos (J. S Flos Q. — Ha€Tnafostemo7i eoriaeetis (Ba.il\.) 



Vax et K, Hoffm. (7 Flos (5. D Flos Q. — Sphaerosiylis malaccensis (Hook, f.) Pax et K. Hoffm. 



E Flos (5, F Flos Q. — Icon. E et F sec, Hook. f. 1, c, cet. origin. 



Species excludenda, 



Astrococcus coriaceus Baill. Adansonla V. {\ 86 i) 308 = Haematostemon cwia- 

 ceus (Baill.) Pax et K. Hoffm. 



ii. Haematostemon (müh. Arg.) Pax et K. Hoffm. 

 Asirococciis Sect, Haematostemon*) Müll. Arg. in Linnaea XXXIV. 



;<865) 457, in 



DC. Prodr. XV, 2. (1866) 767, in Fl. Bras. XI. 2. (1874) 330; Pax in Engler u. Prantl, 

 Pflzfam. III. 5. (1880) 65. — Astrococcus Benlh. in Benth. et Hook, f, Gen, III. (1880) 

 326 ex parte. 



Flores monoici, apetali. Calyx (^ in alabastro globosus, per anthesin valvatim 

 4-partitus; sepala in alabastro apice inflexa, parte inflexa subdenliformi, demum erecta. 



*] (cl/ju = sanguis; propter florem (5 intus sanguineum. 



