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(lorsallbus eqnitanllbus, laterallbus semilectis semltegenll- 

 bus, antcriori intcrioriqiie teclo. Ilabilus Bignoniarum' 

 bi- et trifollalarum scandentium. 



Fiulex scandens, opposltlfoliiis, opposllionis lege ra- 

 rlssioie int'racta pseudo-opposilifolius. Kami lereles, striali, 

 grisei, saepe verrucosi, pubescenles, allero vel teitio anno 

 calvcscenics, ad nodos paululum dllatali et Rubiacearuni 

 nnore llnea iumida peliolos connccfcnle instrucli, quae ju- 

 niori aeialc iiberiori pube cancscit. Inlernodia subtripol- 

 licarla (sesqul- et qulnquepollices longa). Folia tcrnata 

 seu, quod idem est, conjugata cum cirrho intermedio. (In 

 unico specimine folIa ramorum basilaria simplicia, minora, 

 ovata, obtiisa, lamina basi in peliolum brevem decurrente.) 

 Planlanim scandentium more longius breviusque petiolata 

 occununt, peliolo polllcarl et tripollicari; foliolis longius 

 breviusque pcliolulalls, petlolls laleralium 3 — 9 lineas 

 longis, imparis semper longlori 6 — 15 lineas longo. Fo- 

 llola figura et niagnltudlne variabilia, ovata, ellipllca, lan- 

 ceola'a, basI acuta, apice longius (subcaudalo) breviusque 

 acuniinata, acumlne obluso aut acuto, saeplus mucronata; 

 nunc maxima semipedalia, laliludine plus tripollicari, nunc 

 minora, nunc angustissima 3< pol), longa, latiludine pol- 

 llcem vix exccdenle. Integerrinia sunt (unlus alteriusve 

 dentis rudiruenlum in unico specimine obscrvabatur), ilr- 

 mia, consislenlla laurina, utriiujuc reticulato « venosa, vc- 

 nis primarils ulrlnsecus 4 — 6; supra nilenlia, utrinque 

 glabra, pube niinorum per peliolum in costam mcdiam 

 iolii sublus parca decurrente, axillis venaruin barbalulis. 

 Panicula terminalis ibyrsoidea lolia h)nge superans, seml- 

 pedalis pedalisque, ramis opposilis, cynioso- ter qiialerque 

 dicliolomis, bracteolis angustis aculls caducls; ex toto cum 

 calicibus glanduloso-pubescens, corollis fere glabris. Calyx 

 plus semipolllcaris, corolla tertia clrcller calycis parte 

 eum superans, limbo expanso diamctro circitcr quadrili- 



