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Cauus frutescens, teres, glaber , substriatus , scandens , ramo- 
sus. For alterna, stipulata, petiolata, ovato oblongove seu el- 
liptico-lanceolata , acuminata , basi subacuta , crenato - serrata , 
glaberrima ; acumine integro acutissimo sæpiüs falcato ; supe- 
riora sæpius gradatim minora : pedunculus circiter 3 1. longus, 
subtüs convexus , suprà canaliculatus, glaber. Srirurz parvæ, 
Janceolatæ , subulatæ , scariosæ , ferrugineæ. Frores axillares , so- 
litarii aut sæpiüs racemosi, resupinati. Racemr breves, vix G-8 1]. 
longi; bracteis minimis ovatis acutis ferrugineis obtecti ex quo- 
rum axillis pedunculi nascuntur. Prenuncurus circiter 8 1. lon- 
gus, filiformis, glaber, pauld supra basin 2-bracteatus, paulo 
infra apicem articulatus, variè curvatus, primüm ascendens vel 
patulus, demüm reflexus, infra articulationem persistens. Carvx 
vix inæqualis; laciniis, lanceolato-linearibus, acuminatis, acutis, 
uninerviis , ciliatis; 2 inferioribus ob calcar interpositum distan- 
tibus. Perara 5, valdè inæqualia, perigyna, persistentia : supe- 
riora 2, calyce vix longiora, lineari-elliptica , obtusa , tenuia, 
uninervia, glabra , imo apice reflexo ciliata : intermedia 2 , lineari- 
spathulata, obtusa, superioribus dupld longiora, cum inferiora 
subcoalita , apice crassiora, 5-nervia , marginibus vix tenuissimè 
ciliata : inferius unguiculatum , glabrum ; laminâ rhombeo-rotun- 
datà, obtusissimä ; ungue canaliculato, à basi ad apicem attenuato, in 
calcar desinente petalo longius descendens obtusum intüs villosum. 
STamina 5, perigyna, inæqualia, persistentia : filamenta lobis an- 
theræ dupld breviora, complanata : antheræ complanatæ, lineari- 
ellipticæ, basi 2-lobæ, apice productæ in membranam semielliptico- 
orbicularem , basi affixæ , immobiles, 2-loculares, anticæ, basi coa- 
litæ: connectivum antherarum 2 inferiorum in appendicem basi pro- 
ductum ; appendicibus filiformibus, longissimis, flexuosis, in calcare 
reconditis , plus minüsve coalitis. Sryrus figuram S referens, apice 
rotundatus , in membranulam anteriüs productus ligulæformem 
glandulà globosä terminatam , infra membranulam lateraliter trun- 
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