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bala;^ filamenta filiformla glabra; anihcrae blloculares, lo- 

 culls saglttalo-dlscretls, mox sursum llexls ereclis, intus 

 dchlscenlibus, marginlbus tenuUer membranacels barbato- 

 ciliatis. Discus bypogynus carnosus. Gcrinen tercs, ulrln- 

 que sulcafum, glabrum, biloculare, multloyulafum; ovulis 

 anguHs pnrielis et clisäeplmenli al'fixis; tumescens tetrago- 

 num evasit. Stylus germini conlinuus, sursun» attenuatus, 

 filiformis, glaber, stamlna superans. Stigma bilamellatum, 

 lamellis lanceolalis. Capsula (ante maluritalem fiuclus 

 scrutata ) tetraquelra , lelraptera , glabra , purpiireo - fusca, 

 circiter oclopollicaris, mucrone semipollicari valitlo telra- 

 gono aptcro lerminala, faciebus ires circiter linras Jalis, 

 duobus (dorsalibus valvarum) intra alas convexis, alternis 

 (quibus margines valvarum conveniunt) concavis; alis 

 crasse membranacels subcoriaceis, rcpandis, corpore latio- 

 libus, quinque circiter lineas lalis, venis tenuibus crebris 

 patulis patenlibusque pennatim nolalis. Interna fabrica ut 

 in Blgnonia^ bivalvis, valvis coriaceis, exlus convexis, in- 

 tus concavis, a basi nervo pcrsisicnte debiscentibus. DIs- 

 iscpimenlum parallelum, -planum, coriaceum, cras>sum, (an 

 i :lcmum sub niaturilate fructus cxsiccatum lenulusque?), 

 itriiique ulrinsecns juxla marginem simplici serie semlni- 

 ferum. Semina comnianala, alata, transversa, allilndiiic 

 iua laliludinem dissepimenli aequanlia. 



E Brasilia plnrlbns locis Iccinm misit Sellowius. 



Fo/iix siiprndccompositis, 

 11. BiGNONiA ietraquefra N. Scandens, pilis ramosis 

 in siccis rufescentibus) subtomentoso-pubescens; ramis 

 'jelraquelris ncrvoso-striolalis, angulis ncrvoso-marginatis, 

 "oliis conjugalls subcirrbosls, pinnis biternalis, pinnulis 

 , joliolisque lermlnalibus majoribus magis elongalis; l'oliolis 

 I petiolatis integerrimis clliplicis obovalisque breviter obtuse 

 I Jicuminaiis submucronulatis, supra (pube rariori breviori) 

 j [lilidulis; cyma paucitlora lerminali sessili (foliis sacpius 



