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vissime et densiuscule calloso-aspera, margine dentata, dentibus 

 triangulari-subulatis brevissime ciliatis; pedunculus communis longius- 

 culus; fructus globosus, cerasiformis, 10 — 15-spermus; semina anguste 

 irregulariterque ovoidea, leviter compressa, margine obtuse 6-angu- 

 lata, utraque facie leviter verruculosa. 



Rami subfiliformes, elongati, sulcati, crassiusculi sparseque 

 asperati, leviter ramulosi. Petiolus gracilis, striatus, brevissime sub- 

 sparseque hirsutus, 2—3 cm longus. Folia membranacea. utrinque 

 brevissime hirsuta demum tenuissime denseque albo-punctata et scaber- 

 rima, 3—5 cm longa lataque, segmentis oblongis, apice acutis v. sub- 

 rotundatis et longe mucronatis, ad basin valde constrictis, margine 

 denticulatis v. acute crenulato-dentatis. Bractea laete viridis, sub- 

 sessilis, satis asymmetrica, 6 — 10 mm longa, 4 — 7 mm lata. Cirri 

 filiformes, breviusculi, sulcati, scabriusculi. Pedunculus communis 

 masculus capillaris, sulcatus, brevissime sparseque asperatus, 2—3 mm 

 longus, apice 4 — 8-florus; pedicelli erecto-patuli , basi subebracteolati, 

 4 — 8 mm longi. Calycis tubus 1,5 mm longus latusque; dentes subu- 

 lati, erecto-patuli, 0,5—1 mm longi. Petala 1,5—2 mm longa. Fructus 

 subsessilis, glaber, laevis, 1 — 1,5 cm crassus. Semina cinerea v. fus- 

 cescentia, margine obtusa v. truncata, 6 — 7 mm longa, 3,5—4 mm 

 lata, 1,5 mm crassa. 



Upingtonia (Schinz); Hereroland (Lüderitz). 



Cette espece nous parait differer suffisamment de ses congeneres 

 pour constituer une section generique speciale. Nous croyons donc 

 devoir diviser le genre Blastania comme suit: 



Sect. I. Eublastania. — Fructus 1 — 2-spermus, rarissime 3-sper- 

 mus. Semina majuscula, plus minusve concava, utraque facie laevia, 

 margine regulariter ovata v. oblonga. Bracteae stipuliformes longe 

 pectinato-ciliatae. — 1. B. Garcini Cogn. 1. c. 629. — 2. B. fimbri- 

 stipula Kotschy et Peyr. Cogn. 1. c. 628. 



Sect. II. Lüderitziana. — Fructus polyspermus. Semina parva, 

 plana, utraque facie verruculosa, margine angulata. Bracteae stipuli- 

 formes dentatae. 



— 3. B. Lüderitziana Cogn., supra. 



Corallocarpus Schinzii Cogn. 

 Folia longiuscule petiolata, utrinque praecipue subtus te- 

 nuissime denseque punctato-scabra ovato-cordata, basi profunde emar- 

 ginata, integra v. obscure trilobata, margine undulato-subcrenulata ; 

 pedunculus communis masculus gracilis, rectus, brevissime hirtellus, 

 petiolo brevior; flores feminei breviuscule pedunculati, solitarii v. gemi- 

 nati; fructus ovoideo-oblongus, apice non rostratus subrotundatus; 

 semina fuscescentia, ovoidea, ad basin compressa et leviter attenuata, 

 sublaevia, tenuiter marginata. 



