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Ad hanc proxime acccdit species a Choisy proposita 

 (Mein. d. 1. soc. d'hist, nat. d. Paris I. p. 230. in noia). 



Moronohca gvancUßora Choisy 1. c. , florlbus sub- 

 corymbosis; alabasiro maximo (12 — 18 i. longo) ovalo- 

 conico; staminibus .... (numerus deest apud Choisy) in 

 3 fasciculos partilis spiralitcr pistillo circumvolutis, quod 

 codem modo spirallier sulcatum. 



Valde dislincta vcro apparet novam hujus gcncris 

 sectionem {Symphonia Lin.) constituens species, Aublelii 

 altera varietas: 



Moronohca glohuJifera N. (Moronobea coccinea Aubl. 

 t. 313. lilt. a — j incl., varietas in palustribus marilimis); 

 quam Symphoniam globullferam credimus (Linn. suppl. 

 p. 302.) a Dalbcrgio in Surinamo lectam, a Linnaeo ex- 

 acle descriplam, quac non minus Symphonia globulifera 

 Hb, W. n. 12298, specimina Hoffmannseggii comitis e Para 

 Brasiliae, et Cajcnnense Parisiis acccptum; floribus sub- 

 umbellatis, alabastro mediocri (subsemipolllcari) globoso 

 obtuso, staminibus 15 in urceolum rectum connatis, an- 

 iherifera parle in 5 fasciculos apice appendiculatos rectos 

 divisa, pistillo haud spiraliler striato. 



Ad hanc ducimns planlam a Lhotzkio lectam et trans- 

 missam, cui folia clliptlca basi acuta, apice elongalo- 

 acuminata, acumine obtuso, marginc Icviter revoluta et 

 nervo venas creberrimas connectcnte submarginali insi- 

 gnia, glnberrima superficlem intensius viridem, paginam in- 

 feram pallidiorcm ostendunt. Foliu maxima o^ p. longa, 

 \\ — li^ p. lata in petiolo 3-lineari. Flores terminales, 

 subumbcllati, subqu'ndcni, pedunculis insldentes nudis 

 6 — 8 lin. longls. Calyx 5-sepalus patcns, sepalis 2 ex- 

 terloribus sibi oppositis, omnibus subrotundo-ovatis, mar- 

 gine subhyalinis, brevibus vix 2 1. longis. Corolla 5-pe- 

 tala alabastrum formans globosum semper fere clausum 

 diamctro 6-liueari; pclala (coccinea s. pulchre rubra) 



