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indumento, braciels et corollarum graclliorum slruclur.i 

 inlcrna facllc dignotu. 



Cestuum cafyciiii/m lllM\. Nov. gen. III. p. 45, llb.W. 

 n. 4461. 



Frullccm lianc lO-pcdalcm, corolla pallidc viridcm in 

 Brasilia Icgit Sellow. 



Cestuum braclcatiim Link cl Otto Abbild. I. p. 11. t. 6. 



In Brasilia circa Rio Janeiro alibique Icgil Sellow. t>. 



Variabilcm vidimus raccmoruni longitudincm scnipcr 

 tarnen folla liaud superanlium. Afllnis specics est Ccstrum 

 pcliolare IIBK. (vcnosum IIb. \V. n. 4438) integumenlo 

 pilorum, raceinisquc spiciformibus mullo brcvioribus di- 

 stinctuni. 



Cestkuai nmlcium n. sp. glaberrimum, foliis lanceo- 

 latis utrinquc aculis, lucidulis, petiolatls, racemis subspi- 

 catis brevibus bractcalis, bracleis \ — \ floris acquanlibus; 

 calycis glabri dcnlibus aculis apice ciliolulalis , coroUis 

 lubuloso-infundlbullformibus fauce Icviter ampliatis glabris, 

 calycc scxics longioribus, limbi laciniis ovalis acullusculis; 

 filamcnlis supcriori liibo inscrLis, loco inscrlionis fasciculalo- 

 villosis et Iiinc dcorsuin reverso-pilosis. 



In Brasilia Icgit Sellow. t/. 



Glal)crrinium lacve; rami Icrclcs juniores vlridos, 

 adiilli cortice cincrascenli-albido lacvi induli. Folia sparsa, 

 pctiolata lanceolata ulrinque acuta , ulrinque concolora et 

 lucidula, sublus nervo venisquc priiuariis utrinsccus S — 10 

 promincntibus, margincque subrevolulo, niaxiina 5 fcrc pull, 

 longa 15 — 16 lin. lala, picrumque paullo miiiora. Peliolus 

 semipollicaris. Slipulac spuriac parvae subrcniformes. 

 Gemmae glabrac. Ilaccmi subspicali brcvcs pauciflori 

 bracIcaLi. Bachis glabra vix unquain pollicari.s, floribus 

 paucis hubscssilibus sessilibusve versus aplcem conlerlis. 

 Bracleac sub quovis llore, ovalo-lanceolalac, obtusiusculac 

 : sessiles 



