j88 leguminoss. 



iDin. longi, peilicello crasso 1-2 mm. longo lomenloso-ferrugineo, basi dila- 

 lato, bracteaqiie minulissima acuta dimitlio brevioie demum caduca stipalo 

 suiFulti, patentes vel subrecto-patentes. Calyces cyathiformes 3 mm. longilii- 

 dine non excedenlcs, brevi.ssime el pariter 5-dentati, coriaceJ, ulraque facie 

 feiTugineo-tomenlosi, extus tandem subglabrali, denlibus acutiiisculissinu- 

 bus obtusis latis discretis. Corolla glaberrimacalyce plus quam duplo longior 

 tandem païens. Petala 5 œqualia obovata basi truncata apice obtuso concava 

 aeslivalione imbricati (uno tantum plane e.vteriore), imo calyci inserla vel 

 etiam subhypogyna, calycinis denlibus alterna et ulrinque glabra. Stamina 

 5 ferlilia pelalis opposila el minora, filamentis crassis exlus planis intus sub- 

 3-quelris el interdum piiosis, apice atlenualis, rectis (etiam in alabastro); 

 anlheris iisdem sublongioribus dorso inferiore aflixis introrsis, linearibus 

 acutis coriaceis, basi retusis, 2-!obis, iobis deorsum distantibus introrsis, 

 e basi ad summum deliiscentihus. Stamina abnormia 5 pelalis alterna glabra 

 e massula clavata difFormi crassa in filamentum 3-alalum ima basi tares, 

 durum, abeunle constant; in alabastro apice per paria connivent anlherasque 

 fertiles superferuntur. Ovariumiiberum lineare in stipilem brevem desinens 

 hispido-lomentosum rufuni i-loculare lo-ovulatum, parielibus crassissimis 

 duris. Stylus brevis glaber, stigmate perforato minulo integro subcartila- 

 gineo terminalus vix incurvus et 1 mm. excedens. Ovula elliptico-rotunda 

 distanlia, ideoque quasi simplici série ad suturam superiorem (se. petalo ex- 

 temo adversam) addicta. 



Nascitur in prov. Rio-Negro Brasilia. (Herb. Mus. Par. ex heib. Lusit.) 



$ III. Phaneropsia'. 



Calyx sericeo-lomenlosus, cylindricus, lubulosus, 5-dentaUis, denlibus 

 brevissimis oblusiusculis, sinubus subaculis; petala obovata acuta, antice 

 rufo-sei'icea, calyce breviore inclusa; stamina ananlhera longiora ; ovariuni 

 sericeo-pilosum rufum. — Flores sessiles spicato-corymbosi; folia abrupte 

 simpliciter pinnata. — An genus proprium? 



• <IiiivEi)oç coiispiciciidus, //b; -^eU mica ; staminodia sc'ilicft talytis in ore nuda collecta 

 parvulas refeiunt micas. 



