118 BoONGARD Botanique. 
Folia alterna, breviter petiolata, basi rotundata 1. subcordata, ovato-oblonga, 
supra glaberrima, nitida, (sicca nigricantia), subtus fusco-pubescentia, glan- 
dulis copiosis flavo-nitentibus adspersa, 9-nervia ; nervis prominulis venis- 
que transversis anastomosantibus, 2 — 4 pollices longa, sesqui-pollicem 
circiter lata, superiora sensim minora, suprema minima, ultra medium (2) 
bipartita, lobis ovalibus, acutis, subparallelis, mucrone rigidulo inter 
fissuram. 
Petioli breves, vix 3 lin. longi, semiteretes, supra canaliculati, fusco-pubescentes. 
Stipulae geminae, minutae, acutae. 
Racemi terminales et axillares, paucifloni, floribus geminis, subsessilibus. 
Bracteae lanceolatae, minutae, vix linea longiores. 
Alabastra clavata, fusco-velutina, glandulis copiosis adspersa. 
Calyx tubulosus, tubo circiter 4 lineas longo, limbo 5-partito, laciniis linearibus, 
intus glabris, saepius in lobulos duos concretis. 
Pelala 5, summo calycis tubo inserta, linearia, lanceolata, acuta, acuminata, 
nervulo longitudinali notata, margine leviter uudulata, (non, uti ex icone 
videtur, serrulata), venulosa, fere pollicaria, alba. 
Slamina 10, alterna minora, omnia fertilia, ibidem inserta, pollice breviora. Æi/a- 
menta subulata, glabra. Autherae lineares, basi emarginatae, dorso supra 
basin affixae, biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. 
Orarium stipitatum, lineare-compressum, fusco-hirsutum glandulisque adspersum, 
abiens in sy/um longum qui shigmale obliquo, bilobo, infundibuliformi 
terminatur. 
Frutez 3 — 4-pedalis. 
Haëb. in campis siccis Brasiliae. For. Octobri. 
