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Hans Walter. — Phvtolaccaceae. 



pubescentes vel glabri, breves, zfr 1,8 mm longi; bracteae bracteolaeque subulatae, 

 db 0,8 mm longae; tepala obovato-elliptica , apice rotundata, alba, ± 3,5 mm longa 

 et d= 2 mm lata; in floribus masculis stamina ± 14; filamenta dz 1,2 mm longa; 

 antherae =t 1,5 mm longae; in floribus femineis ovarium conico-oblongum, ±: 3 mm 

 longum et zb 1,8 mm latum; Stigmata 2, linearia, filiformia, vix papillata, ± 3 mm 

 longa. Fructus baccatus, nigro-semipellucidus, semine nigro, subgloboso, zb 3 mm longo. 

 Paraguay: Am Rande des Gehölzes in der Pirayu-bi-Ebene (Balansa n. 228 1!), 

 Guarapi (Balansa n. 3221!), Villa occidental, im Wald (Lorentz n. 130!), Goncepcion 

 (Hassler n, 7274!). — Blüht August, Dezember, Januar — Herb. Berlin, DC, Delessert. 



22. PhaulothamnUS A. Gray. 



Phaulothamnus*) A. Gray in Proc. Amer. Aead. XX. (1885) 293; Heimerl in Engl, 

 u. Prantl, Pflzfam. HI. Ib. (1889) 8. 



Flores dioici, racemosi. Perianthium herbaceum florum terminalium 5-, ceterorum 

 4-partitum; tepala libera, elhptica, apice rotundata, paullo nervosa, persistentia, in fructu 



Fig. 42. Phaidothamnus spinescens A. Gray. A Habitus fruticis (5- B Habitus fruticis Q 

 G Flos (5. D Stamen. E Flos <^. F Ovarium. O Ovulum longitudine sectum. 



*) "The name [cpavXos, B^üfxvos) indicates Ihat this is an uncomely shrub, ill to handle" 



