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vissime setosis; foliis lanceolatis, breviter acuminatis, inferne leviter 
attenuatis, subtiliter remoteque setuloso-denticulatis, SPEM 
bracteis breviuscule denseque pectinato-ciliatis. 
Folia submembranacea, utrinque scabra, 1'/,-2*/, dm. longa, 3- 
6 em. lata, nervis lateralibus 1-2 em. supra basin limbi e medio orien- 
tibus. Paniculæ '/,-1 dm. longs. Bracteæ late suborbieulares, 4- 
8 mm. latze. Calycis tubus 4-4 */, mm. longus; lobi tenuiter membra- 
eei. peetinato-ciliati, 2 */,-3 mm. longi. Petala 5 mm. longa, vix 
1 mm. lata. Stylus 5-6 mm. longus. 
| In Brasiliz prov. Rio de Janeiro (Glaziou n. 3964 et 16002 c). 
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2. L. attenuata; ramis obtuse tetragonis, scaberrimis; foliis 
lanceolatis, obtusiusculis, inferne longe attenuatis, integerrimis et 
brevissime setuloso-eiliatis, insigniter 3-plinerviis ; bracteis brevissime 
ciliatis. 
Caulis ut videtur subsimplex. Folia submembranacea, etes 
Seaberrima, 2-3 dm. longa, 5-7 cm. lata, nervis lateralibus 5-6 cm. 
Supra basin limbi e medio orientibus. Paniculæ '/o-1 dm. longe. 
Braetez late obovatz, 6-8 mm. longs. Calycis tubus 5 mm. longus ; 
lobi tenuiter membranacei, vix ciliati, 3 mm. longi. Petala 5 mm. 
longa, l mm. lata. Stylus 8-9 mm. longus. 
In Brasiliz prov. Rio de Janeiro (Glaziou n. 16826). 
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| 2. Calycis dentes omnes subequales. 
|. 3. L. amplexicaulis (DC.! L c..153); foliis lanceolatis vel 
oblongo-lanceolatis, inferne non vel paulo attenuatis, 3-plinerviis ; 
bracteis late obcordato-suborbicularibus, basi subrotundatis; calyce 
breviter setoso, lobis interioribus ovato-triangularibus, acutis. — 
Cogn. 1. e. 79. — Leandra hispida Schr. et Mart.! ex DC. l. e. 
Frutex 1-2 m. altus, leviter ramosus. Folia submembranacea, 1 AT 
PA dm. longa, 5-9 cm. lata. Panieulze 1-1 */, dm. longae. Bracteæ 6- 
T mm. longz. Calycis tubus 5 mm. longus ; lobi 2 */, mm. longi. Petala 
Tosea, 4-5 mm. longa, 1-1'/, mm. lata. Stylus 7-10 mm. longus. 
Bacca subglobosa, 5 mm. crassa 
, In Brasiliæ prov. Minas Geraés (Martius, etc.), Rio de Janeiro 
(Glaziou n. 16825, de Saldanha, de Moura, etc.) et S. Paulo (Bowie 
et Cunningham). 
| 4. L. longistyla (Cogn. 1. e. TR foliis Aago- lancoplatis, 
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