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elJipticum, cuspidato-mucronatura , saccato-concavum, 

 „ basi calcaralum, intus versus medium macula flava 

 „ notatum; calcari longo, tenui, cjlindraceo, obtuso , 

 „ uncinatim antice curvato. Foliola duo exteriora late- 

 „ ralia ( Caljx Linn. ) j minima, oblonga, acuminata, 

 „ viridia, apice sphacelata, plana, patenti-recurvata, 

 „ Praefloratio : foliolum inferius ( calcaratum ) amplec- 

 ), tens superiora , et haec plane involvunt petala, " 



Petala quatuor, hypogjna , interstitium pro quinto 

 „ superiora deficiente , subaequalia , unguiculata, paten- 

 „ tissima, caduca, ad ungues per paria connata , refe- 

 j, rentia duo lateralia bifida-, ungues lati j laminae orbi- 

 „ culatae, planiusculae, emarginato-bilobae. Praeflo- 

 „ ratio : laminae petalorum inferiorum marginibus inte-. 

 „ rioribus contiguis involuto-inflexis, exterioribus iami- 

 5, nas petalorum lateralium Involventibus , ex illis sinis- 

 „ trum petalorum est exterius. " 



„ Stamina 5, lijpogjna, longitudine ovarii, aequalia, 

 „ cum petalis alternantia, { inter stamina duo superiora 

 j, petalum nuUum ) marcescentia , tardius basi soluta , 

 „ superne cohaerentia pistilloque calyptrae instar insi- 

 35 dentia, demum decidua. Filamenta tenuia , semite- 

 „ retia^ viridia, glabra , superne dilalato- incrassata , 

 „ apice connata. Antherae ovalo ellipticae, apice rotun- 

 5, datae, albae, glabrae , margine cohaerentes, super- 

 j, ne liberae , biloculares ; connexivum majusculum, 

 „ cum filamenlo continuum; loculi intus secundum lon- 

 <p-385.) „ gitudinem dehiscentes. Pollen: granula mmutis- 

 ,, sima, elliptica oblonga, utrinque rotundata , albido- 



> CaeUrum crediderini opinionem meam adhuc confirmari bractcolt 

 » parva, ^uam vidi ad basim stpali a calcarato invoUiti." 



