216 METYER Botanique. 
basi plus minus attenuata, 3 poil. longa, 15 lin. lata; — vel ovato-elliptica, 
basi subrotundata, 2!/, poll. longa, 1*/, poll. lata; — vel, in var. 6, illis 
C. circinnatae subsimilia, ovato-suborbiculata, 2*/, poll. longa, 2°/, poll. 
lata; — interdum oblonga, basi valde attenuata, 2%/, poll. longa, vix { poil. 
lata : — rarius obovato-elliptica, apice latiora, rotundata et abrupte bre- 
viterque acutata, basi attenuata, 2°/, poll longa, apice 1°/, poll. lata: in- 
terdum occurrunt folia maxima, late ovata, basi rotundata, # poll. longa, 
basi 3 poll. lata; — folia omnia subtus sunt pallide viridia (non glauca et 
non vel obsoletissime tuberculata), setis simplicibus (rarissime bipartitis) 
tuberculato-scabris curvatis atque patulis plus minus hirta, nervis latera- 
libus utrinque #, rarissime 5 notata. Cyma (interdum subpaniculata) de- 
pressa, setulis patulis hirsutiuscula. Calycis dentes late ovati, cuspidati, 
disco depresso longiores. Stylus 2 lin. longus, longitudinaliter (in sicco) 
angulato-striatus, apice semper clavato-incrassatus, parte incrassata laevi 
(non striata). Drupa sanguinea, globosa. Nux majuscula, globosa, non 
costata. 
Hab. (& et &) praesertim in Europa media, Germania! frequens, Gallia 
(pr. Dole! , Italia superiore (Bertol.), in regno Neapolitano? (Ten.), Gott- 
landia! (latifolia); — in Imperio Ruthenico occurrit imprimis in regione 
temperata, in insula Osilia! (latifolia), Curonia, Livonia! (Segewold! Ko- 
kenhusen! latifolia), prov. Pskow! Lithuania (Vilna!) Volhynia! Podolia, 
Kiew, Ucrania! Cherson, Poltawa! Jekaterinoslaw! Kursk! Voronesch! ad 
Tanain (Güldenst.), Viatka, ad fl. Kama (Falk), prope Archangel! (Bo- 
huslaw). 
10. Cornus excelsa Humb., Bonpl, Kunth., 
(Nov. gen. et sp. pl. ed. in fol. IT p. 335.) 
CG. folüis oppositis late ovatis ovato-ellipticis ovato-oblongis vel oblongis acu- 
minatis basi rotundatis vel acutatis, subtus laevibus concoloribus setis 
