1070 DICOTYLEDONEA. BLAKEA. - 
25 et 63. — Valdesia Ruiz et Pav. Prodr. 67 (1794), Syst. I, 121. 
— Pvxidanthus Naud. l. c. 150 (1852). — Amaraboya J. Linden 
Illustr. Hort. XXXIV, 15, tab. IV (1887). 
Flores 6-meri. Calycis 4-bracteati tubus late campanulatus vel 
hemisphaericus; limbus simplex, brevis vel elongatus, sæpe dilatatus, 
6-lobus, persistens. Petala oblonga vel obovata, glaberrima. Sta- 
mina 12, :equalia, filamentis erassiusculis, glabris ; antheræ subhori- 
zontales vel pendula, crassæ, breves, a latere compresse, apice 
obtuse et minute biporosge, connectivo crassissimo infra loculos non 
producto antice inappendieulato postice in calcar conicum obtusum 
vel acutum producto. Ovarium turbinatum, plus minusve adhzerens, 
vertice lato depresso, centro conico producto, 4-6-loculare, loculis 
multiovulatis; stylus graeilis vel erassus, basi conicus, stigmate trun- 
catulo elavato vel capitellato. Bacca carnosa. Semina ovoidea vel 
pyramidata. 
Arbuscul: et frutices erecti vel scandentes, glabri pubescentes vel 
subsetosi, in Amerieze meridionali et Antillis indigeni, ramulis sæ- 
pius teretibus. Folia petiolata vel subsessilia, magna, eoriacea, ovata 
vel oblonga, acuminata, subintegerrima, 3-5-nervia, venulis transver- 
sis parallelis ereberrimis. Flores majusculi vel ampli, axillares, solita- 
rii vel rarius fascieulati, breviter vel longius pedicellati, rosei purpu- 
rei vel albi, bracteis 4 rarissime 6 subcoriaceis per paria oppositis 
 S&epissime liberis involuerati. 
Sect. I. EUBLAKEA, Triana, lc. 148. — Alabastra bracteis 
4 per paria oppositis liberis vel rarius connatis involucrata. — 
Spec. 1-25. 
I. Rami teretiusculi vel obscure tetragoni. — Spec. 1-21. 
A. Folia petiolata; flores axillares, solitarii vel fasciculati. — Spec. 1-20. 
1. Bractee omnino libere. — Spec. 1-16. 
a. Bracteæ omnes calyei longiores. — Spec. 1-13. 
l'. Folia 3-5-plinervia. — Spec. 1-7. 
a. Rami juniores setis squamulosis elongatis densiuseule hirsuti. 
1. B. repens (Don, l.c. 325); foliis pergamentaceis, elliptico" 
