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tiolos aequantes V. dimidio superantes. Flores (/minimi, globosi 

 pedicello bibracleolato, medio subarliculato, inferné puberulo, 

 calyce 5-partilo, lobis imbricativis, obtusis, glabris margine ci- 

 liatis, petalis o imbiicalivis, glabris, albo-virescentibus, slamini- 

 bus 10 glabris, filamentis subulatis disco inserlis, ovarii rudi- 

 mento parum perspicuo. Flores $ desiderati. Drupa pisiformis 

 globosa, glaberrima, albo-rosea, pericarpio tenuichartaceo facile 

 secedente, putamine osseo. 



Hab. Vulgata in sylvis subvirgineis per provinciam Argenliniae 

 «Misswnesy> totam, nec non per fini timas paraguayenses ubi 

 «Chichita» V. «MoUe» vocatus, Apr. &Maj. 1883, leg. Cl. Carolus 

 í'. Gülich. 



ubs. Frutex seu arbuscula 2-6-metralis et ultra, coma ampia sub- 

 globosa, dense ramosus, ramis modicissime divaricato-patenti- 

 bus; ramuli subpatentes ad terlium inferum saepius nudi, parce 

 cicatricosi, caeterum densiuscule fulioso-comati, teretes, recti v. 

 vix flexuosi, in juventute et in parte foliosa fere semper dense 

 moUiterque fulvo-tomentosi, basin versus glabrescentes v. gla-. 

 brati, cortice fusco v. sordide subrubescente, longitudinaliter 

 plus minusve dense (in sicco, an semper?) sulcato-striatulo, 

 parcissime ac minute hinc inde albo-lenticellato tecli, ligno albo 

 non V. vix aromático, canale medullari albo-farcto gracillimo 

 percurso. Folia imparipimata (6-15" [saepius 8-10"] long.), lon- 

 giuscule petiolata (1,3-3" long.), 3-4-juga, rarissime 2-6, foliolis 

 sessilibus oppositis, ómnibus in eodem folio subaequalibus v. 

 inferis parce atque gradatim decrescentibus, supremo saepius 

 quoque subaequali non v. rarius paulo majore v. minore, ellip- 

 tico-lanceolatis v. obovato-ellipticis (rarius subspalhulatis), (2-4" 

 [saepius 3-3,5"] long. = 1-1,5" lat.), deorsum attenualo-cunea- 

 tis (supremo saepe longius et ad tertium inferum subabrupto 

 coarctato), non v. vix inaequilateralibus, sursum attenuato-acu- 

 tatis ( praecipue in planta cf el in foliis junioribus), non rarius, 

 (in foliis basalibus ramulorum) obtusissime rotundatis, ápice 

 plus minusve apiculato-submucronulatis, margine dimidio in- 

 fero integerrimo, dimidio supero utrinque 3-6 plus minusve va- 

 lide dentato, strictissime ac parcissime subrevoluto, primo mol- 

 liter membranáceo -subcrassiusculis, dein subcoriaciusculis, 

 semper opacis et omnino eglandulosis, in prima juventute dense 

 fulvo-velutinis, dein per aetatem utrinque minutissime laxissi- 

 raeque puberulis (pilis simplicibus, rectis corpusculis minutis- 



