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16. biscopodiam Hocasr.!"— Flores parvi; calyce brevi, 5-den- 
lato, haud v. vix aucto. Corollæ suburceolatæ lobi 5, valvati v. leviter 
induplicati. Stamina 5, ad medium tubum inserta inclusa; filamentis 
brevibus; antheris oblongis, imo connectivo dorso insertis, 2-rimosis. 
Germen 2-loculare, basi in discum 5-sulcum incrassatum. Stylus apice 
- Sligmatoso subpeltatus. Fructus seminaque Solani. — Fructus glaber 
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v. puberulus; foliis integris; floribus® ad axillas v. ad nodos ramorum 
cymosis. (Africa trop.) 
17. Nothocestrum À. GRAY.*—Flores plerumque 4-meri; recepta- 
culo superne planiusculo. Calyce tubulosus v. ovoideus, superne 
inæqui-2-5-dentatus, valvatus. Corolla hypocraterimorpha ;  tubo 
brevi; limbi lobis induplicato-valvatis, membranaceo-plicatis, demum 
patentibus. Stamina ad medium tubum inter ea glanduloso-incras- 
Satum affixa ; filamentis brevissimis; antheris basifixis elongatis, 
apiculatis v. muticis, introrsum 2-rimosis. Discus annularis. Germen 
2-loculare; ovulis paucis, septo insertis; stylo brevi, apice crassiore 
2-lobato v. 2-lamellato. Bacca globosa v. ovoidea, calyce inclusa. 
Semina pauca rugulosa ; embryone valde curvato; cotyledonibus semi- 
terelibus. — Arbores v. frutices; foliis alternis integris; floribus ad 
axillas v. nodos vetustos solitariis v. cymosis, plus minus longe 
pedicellatis, (1ns. Sandwic. °) 
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18. Brachistus Miers®. — Flores fere Solani (v. Bassovie); calycis 
late campanulati dentibus 5-10, nunc 0. Corollæ tubus late campa- 
nulatus v. late infundibularis; limbo 5-angulato plicato, late ad 
medium v. plerumque breviter 5-lobo. Slamina 5, ad imum tubum 
affixa ; antheris filamento æquilongis v. longioribus. Cætera Bassoviæ 
(y. Sarache). — Arbores, frutices v. suffrutices, glabri v. indumento 
vario; foliis integris; foribus solitariis v. sæpius 2-0, stipitalis. 
(America centr. et trop.®) 
+ In Flora (1844), 22. — Dux., in y — Sicklera SENDTN., in di (1846), 194 (nec 
pre .. É HR B. H., Gen., I, 178). — Fregirardia Dux., in DC. Prodr., XUI, 
P- 
2. mais crebris. 1. Corolla nunc inter staminum bas 
3. Spec, 1. D. penninervium HOCHST. de er ge en nunc rarius circa styli Suis 
4. In Proc. Amer. Acad., VI, 48. — B. H.,  promin 
Gen., 1, 894, n. 16. 8. "RS as 10. Dun,, Solan. Syn., i,n. 4 
> ut aiunt, 4. (Witheringia). — L Ebb., Chlor, ancin., 11, 100 
6. In Ann. Nat. Hist., ser, x IE, ae rs (Fregirardia). — MSL., Bot. centr.-amer.. 
11,6, L. 36, 37. — B, IL. Gen., il, 892, 11, 423. — WaLe., url 1, 161. 
