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I V. TALAUMA JUSS. 
PorvawNpnn, Polygynia Lixx. Syst. Sex. 
Juss. Gen. Pl. p. 381. — Dr Cawp. tegn. Peg. Syst. IVat. I, 
p. 460. — Exusp. Prodr. Syst. Vat. I, p. 891. — Auc. pE Sr.-Hir. 
Flor. Bras. merid. IL, p. 25.— Bruwz zn Batav. F'erhand. IX, 
p. 145. 
Blumia NEES AB ESENB. Zn Flora 1825, p. 152. 
Magnolice nonnull. spec. AUCT. 
CHARACTER ESSENTIALIS : 
PETALA 9-15, ordine ternario serialia. 
S'TAMINA numerosa, antheris anticis. 
OvanrA. plura, coadunata, biovulata. 
FnucrUs coadunatione unicus, strobiliformis, lignosus, irregula- 
riter dehiscens, seminibus 1-2 pendulis in foveolis receptaculi 
centralis cylindraceo-elongati dehiscentià liberi. 
CHARACTER NATURALIS : 
SPATHA, prout in Micheliis Magnolisque plerisque, florem ante 
anthesin obvolvens, mox decidua. 
PETALA 9-15, in series 5-5 alternantes digesta : exterzora calycina 
colore et substantià tenuiore ab internis discrepantia, sepe 
reflexa citiusque decidua; nteriora obtusiora, crassa, concava, 
campanulatim conniventia et decidua. 
STAMINA numerosa, in tori elevatione circulari super petalis con- 
fertissima, petalis longe breviora, linearia, planiuscula, glabra. 
Filamenta vix manifesta, antheris fere totam staminum longi- 
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