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profunde sinualo - 51obata. Semina matura desiderantur. 

 Flores permulli abortiunt, grossificantur germina pauca. 



3. Palicüiiea tctraphylla N. 



E Brasilia tropica inisit Sellowius. fr. 



Rami telragoni, oblusanguli, laeves, alropurpurascen- 

 les. Folia vertieillato-qualema, brevitcr petiolata, ovato- 

 vel lanceolato-oblonga, in petiolum attenuata, apice acu- 

 minata acuta, lOpollicaria, 4 pollices lata, petiolo \ — f 

 poll. longo; firmia, nee lamen coriacea, plana, reticulato- 

 venosa, venis primariis obliquis subarcuatis utrinsecus 

 15 — IS; supra glabra, nervo venisque impressis; sublus 

 dense hirlo-pubescentia, imprimis in nervo venisque pro- 

 minentibus. Peliolus supra planus, subtus teres. Pubes- 

 cenlia per lalera petioli ad inlerpetiolarem nodi faciem 

 decurrit. Stipula bidentala vcl potius bifida, laciniis lineari- 

 lanceolalis acutis tenuissime ciliatis, sinu nunc acuto, 

 nunc latiori sublruncalo disjunetis. Panicula terminalis 

 pyramidala ampla ; pedunculus 7 pollices longus , teres, 

 angulatus sulcatusque, rariter pubescens; ipsa panicula se- 

 mipedalis, diamclro ad basin 4 — 5 pollicari, densius hirto- 

 pubescens. Rami allerni, sparsi, patentes, subdivaricati, 

 angulati, compressi, in raebidem sursum et deorsum de- 

 currentes, nulla suflulti bractea, sed allius bractea instrueti 

 lineari-lanceolala, acuta, rariter pubescente et ciliata, erecla, 

 quae in inferioribus ad semipollicem usque elongatur; ra- 

 muli pedicellique bracteis similibus multo minoribus inor- 

 dinate adspersi. Calyx hirto- pubescens; germen turbina- 

 tum, dentibus calycinis 5 ipso vix brevioribus ovato-lan- 

 ceolatis acutis coronatum; neclarium epigynum crassum 

 pyramidatum dentibus calycinis vix brevius. Corolla gla- 

 bra, tubulosa, 5 lineas longa, basi gibba, limbo brevi 

 5fido, laciniis ovatis oblusiusculis apice exlus pilis brevi- 

 bus raris subbarbatis. Cingulum in inferiori tubo villorum 

 albidorum, uniseriatorum, in fasciculos 5 penicillatorum. 

 4r Bd. ls Heft. 2 



