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fuperioris calycis et petalum interme- 

 dium e regione ipfius folioli fuperioris 

 prodeunt. 

 Staminum membrana a petalis ad infe- 

 riorem Germinis partem extenditur. 



S5. CISSUS. Amomlt acad. 4.^. 889. n, 1039. 



Vidi tres fpecies Americanas, amicilTime in 

 omnibus partibus floris et frudus confen- 

 tientes, quafque proximas et vix diftin- 

 guendas efle autumo, licet Charaderi 

 Cifll. 1. c. non refpondeant. Praeterea 

 Bacca gaudent monofperma, qua carent 

 Hedera et Vitis, vixque crediderim Dn. 

 MiTCHELiuM, has nieas npmine Helicis 

 intellexifTe. 

 En Charaderem fpeclerum Americanarum. 

 Cal. margo breviffimus exftans 1. patulus^ 

 iubinteger, obfoletiflime quadridentatus, 

 mediurn Germinis cingens. 

 PoR. Petahz quatuor, oblongo-ovata, mini- 

 ma, convexa, craffiufculis, lateribus incur- 

 yisj diftinda, eredta. 



l^e^arium : margo acutus, brevifiimus, 

 corcnans vel cingens Germen intra fla- 

 mina, obiolete quadrangulus, qua- 

 drifariam (pro ftaminibus) obfolete 



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