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Cauus frutescens, teres, glaber , substriatus , scandens , ramo- 
sus. For alterna, stipulata ; petiolata, ovato oblongove seu el- 
liptico-lanceolata , acuminata , basi subacuta , crenato - serrata , 
glaberrima , acumine integro acutissimo sæpiüs falcato ; supe- 
riora sæpius gradatim minora : pedunculus circiter 3 1. longus, 
subtùs convexus, suprà canaliculatus, glaber. Srieurx parvæ, 
Janceolatæ , subulatæ , scariosæ , ferrugineæ. Frores axillares , so- 
litarii aut sæpiùs racemosi, resupinati. Raceur breves, vix 6-8 |. 
longi; bracteis minimis ovatis acutis ferrugineis obtecti ex quo- 
rum axillis pedunculi -nascuntur. Pepuncuius circiter 8 1. lon- 
gus, filiformis, glaber, pauld supra basin 2-bracteatus, paulo 
infra apicem articulatus , variè curvatus , primüum ascendens vel 
patulus, demüm reflexus, infra articulationem persistens. Carvx 
vix inæqualis; laciniis, lanceolato-linearibus, acuminatis, acutis, 
uninerviis , Ciliatis; 2 inferioribus ob calcar interpositum distan- 
tibus. Perara 5, valdè inæqualia , perigyna, persistentia : supe- 
riora 2, calyce vix longiora, lineari-elliptica , obtusa , tenuia, 
uninervia, glabra , imo apice reflexo ciliata : intermedia 2 , lineari- 
spathulata, obtusa, superioribus dupld longiora, cum inferiora 
subcoalita , apice crassiora, 5-nervia , marginibus vix tenuissimè 
ciliata : inferius unguiculatum , glabrum ; laminä rhombeo-rotun- 
datà, obtusissimà ; ungue canaliculato, à basi ad apicem attenuato, in 
calcar desinente petalo longius descendens obtusum intùs villosum. 
Sramina 5 , perigyna , inæqualia , persistentia : filamenta lobis an- 
theræ duplè breviora , complanata : antheræ complanatæ, lineari- 
ellipticæ, basi 2-lobæ, apice productæ in membranam semielliptico- 
orbicularem, basi afixæ , immobiles, 2-loculares, anticæ, basi coa- 
litæ : connectivum antherarum 2 inferiorum in appendicem basi pro- 
ductum ; appendicibus filiformibus, longissimis, flexuosis, in calcare 
reconditis , plüs minüsve coalitis. Srvrus figuram S referens, apice 
rotundatus , in membranulam anteriùs productus ligulæformem 
glandulà globosä terminatam , infra membranulam lateraliter trun- 
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