114 GENRES SAUVAGESIA 
glandulis rotundis, medio depressis, fulvis. SriPuzx geminæ , bre- 
ves, angustissimæ, plumoso-ciliatæ , fuscæ, persistentes. Paxicuzx 
terminales (forsitan abortione gemmæ superioris ), graciles, pauci- 
floræ, plus minüsve divaricatæ : pedunculus 1 ;-2 : pol. longus, 
rectissimus, filiformis, glaber, rubellus vel atropurpureus : rami 
capillares, rectissimi, glabri, atropurpurei vel rubelli, bracteä 
suffulti minutà , subulatä, substipulatä, scariosà : pedicelli uniflori, 
2-5 1. longi , capillares , ramis cæterùm conformes. Carvx 5-partitus, 
submembranaceus, glaber; divisuris, ovato-lanceolatis , acutis. Co- 
ROLLA INTERIOR, 5-petala, hypogyna, patentissima, glabra; petalis 
cum laciniis calycinis alternantibus, iisdemque 3-plè longioribus, 
ovato-lanceolatis, acutissimis, integerrimis, roseis. CoROLLA EXTERIOR 
exteriore brevior, ovato-conica, acutiuscula, apice angusto 5-dentata, 
supernè 5-sulcata, glabra, rubra, cum staminibus pistilloque gy- 
nophoro brevi crassoque insidens. Sramma 5, brevia , petalis exterio- 
ribus opposita, glabra, imæ corollæ interiori basi adhærentia : 
filamenta brevissima : antheræ basi affixæ , immobiles, posticæ , latè 
ellipticæ , acuminatæ, complanatæ, submembranaceæ, rufæ , 2-lo- 
culares, lateraliter longitrorsusque dehiscentes. Sryzus gracilis, 
glaber, primum äinclusus, post anthesin.exsertus, persistens. Sriema 
terminale, vix manifestum. Ovarum glabrum, ovatumn. Capsura ca- 
lyce laciniisque corollæ interioris discissæ et staminibus persis- 
tentibus vestita, ovato-oblonga, acuminata, 3-loba , glabra , usquè 
ad medium 5-valvis ; valvulis extùs medio costatis, intüs ultra me- 
dium nudis, basi introflexione usquè ad centrum productà, disse- 
pimenta 5 incompleta totidemque loculamenta efformantibus ; disse- 
pimentis breviter apice sublunulatim truncato seminiferis nec 
-dehiscentià solubilibus. Semina 2-seriata. 
Var. B. glanduloso-pubescens ; ramis glanduloso-pubescentibus ; 
foliis minoribus; stipulis subsimplicibus. 
Crescit in montibus aridis arenosisve prope Ztanbè et Tapanhoa- 
canga, in provincià Minas-Geraes ; alt. circiter 2000 ped. Floret 
Novembre — Aprili. 
