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27. BiGN'ONiA V'Ualha N. FoHolIs ovalis subcordalis 

 acumlnatis, acumine brevi obluso. sublus lantum lenuissime 

 lepidolis; calyce subtruncato vel subquinqiiecrenalo et 

 denllculato; stylo basi piloso. 



a. Aequinoctialis. Ex loto villosulo-pubescens; foliis 

 saepc cordalo-late ovalis liliaeformlbus. (Iluic inßmae in- 

 florescenllae pcdunculi nonnunqnam cymosi). 



ß. Eairatropica. Glabrescens, pellolls foliolisque 

 vlllosulo-cillatis; foliis saepe anguste ovalis, basi Iruncatis 

 vel rotundalls. (Racemus.) 



Calyce, pube, foliis siipra non lepidolis, florlbus lon- 

 gius pedunculatls, peduncuils inferiorlbus nonnunquam 

 cymosis a superlorl diversa. Pill vero hls trlbns Bignoniis 

 pariter sunt simplices et arllculati, at dolichoidi longiores 

 rlgldiores siibselosl; j)haseoIoidi lenuller et adpresse pubcs- 

 cenli breviores ot molliores, Vitalhae longiores molllores 

 subvUIosi, apicibus varielafls « canescenllbus. Hulc rami 

 inprlnils denslori subvlllosa pube niolllter dense vesliti, 

 quae per peliolos costam venasquc inferam invadlt follo- 

 runn paglnam; margo clllatus; supera pa^lna juniori sal- 

 tem slatu pllis sparsls rarlter pubescens. Varlet. |3 vesli- 

 gia hujus ejusdem pubescenllae vel villosilatls fert, cujus 

 rainull pllls sparsls raris observanlur instructi. Inflorescen- 

 tia in varietale a ex lolo breviori et adpressiori tomenlo 

 vestlta; in var. /3 calyces tantum et pedicelli a bracteolis 

 suis sursum, rachlde ramlsque (peduncuUs nempe ad bra- 

 cteolas usque) rarlter pilosis. Frulex scandens ramosissimus. 

 Intcrnodla basllarla ramorunr» abbrevlala; nodl approximati 

 2 — 3 foliis inslrucli mlnorlbus inperfecle evolulis, foliolis 

 oblusioribus, basi acutiorlbus, subobovalis. Gemmae 

 axillares foliola prinmm dua ovala s. obovala explicautes 

 slipulas saepe simulant. Foliis rite evolulis peliolus com- 

 munis subsesqnipoUlcarls (in unico speciniine blpolh'caris); 

 parliales foliorum conjugatorum seu folloli tmparis sub- 



