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7- PSIDIUM APYSÁ. (Aiiris struthioris). Ñandú-apysá, 



Guaraní. 



Pedunculi brevissimi axillares, ( 2 ? flori ), basi et apice 

 articulati i-flori, i, vel 2. oppositi in singulis ramis.— rami 

 diversi axeos interdum siniiil jiorentes. Bracteae 2-subula- 

 ta; villosiE deciduas germine breviores. Flores sessiles sat 

 magni at forte axi brevi articulati inserti. 



Calycis limbus (pars libera) impunctatus, membranaceiiSy 

 basi non coarctatus, 2-partitus, an semper?, reflexus, basi 

 sub-ruptus dense tementosus, (laceratusr)-cestivatione semi- 

 globosus, omnino connatus (absque suturis) v'alvatus. 



Pétala 5. v. 6. magna, alba, sub-reflexa, membranácea,, 

 concava, obovata, decidua, limbo disci inserta; nervis 00 te- 

 nuibus radiatis pluries furcatis, pellucidis; oestivatione im- 

 bricata, 



Stamina numerossima ina;qualia, decidua, 12 seriata late- 

 raliier! disci tantum inserta, centro nudo filamenta tenuia 

 aestivatione apice inflexa, antherae oblongae flavescentes basi 

 affixae. Discus crassus, concavus, imo villoso-sericeus. Sty- 

 lus staminibus longior deciduus? Stigma albidum, discifor- 

 me planum. 



Germen tomentosum obconicum basi articulatum, 2-brac- 

 teatum, ii-loculare, centro magno non celluloso compacto; 

 loculis 8-spermis, parvis, ovalibiis, apicalibus remotis, ad 

 margimen ( limbum ) centri, (magnis non cellulosis) magis 

 compactis ptitanien indicajitibusll sitis; — mesocarpio cellu- 

 loso. Seminum loculis (ex germine) i-seriatis 8, sporophoro 

 parvo, globoso, centrali. 



Drupa globosa pollicaris, flavescens, glabra, (abortu-i- 

 spermaü) v. loculis i-spermisr 



Putamina á me examinata solida inveni, cellulis 3. v. 

 4.-seriatis internis, a larvis cynipis? repleta, (habitatis), unde 

 structuram internam veram et numerum seminum nondum 

 determinare potui, nullo vestigio loculorum naturalium v. 

 seminum relicto. 



Suffruticosus mediocrisis, ramis elongatis jam apice te- 

 retibus tomentosis, foliis brevissime petiolatis sub-membra- 

 naceis 4-pollicaribus lanceolatis obtusis, creberrime pelluci- 

 do-punctatÍ3, valde creberrime rugosis, supra subtilissime, 

 subtus in nervis densissime pubescentibus, costa supra to- 

 mentosa, margine revolutis. Reticulatio crebra impresso-pro- 

 niinula; nervis lateralibus crebis línea anastomotica prope 

 marginem valde sinuata. 



Paraguay in silvis ct silvaticis, raro Cordillera, 

 teinpore indeterviinato jloret. 



