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Fnitcx scandeos. Rami vetusü tereles tubcrciilato-no> 

 dosi c\i\ere\, Juniores compresso - terotcs, glabri, iiasceiites 

 ut et petioli pedimciili bracteae et caljx jiiniora pilis bre- 

 vissimis patulis siib microscopio distiuctis instrocti. Folia 

 opposila binata, siiperiora cirrhifera. Petiolus teretiusculus 

 1 — 2 ceut. longus patiilus; jjetioluli petiolo 1/2 breviores 

 1/2 — 1 Cent, loiigi. Foliola lato-elliptica vel subobovato- 

 elliptica acurainata: aciimiue lineari- ianceolato mucronuiato, 

 majora iuaeqnilatera , basi subatteiiuata aeqnalia vel leviter 

 ioiieqnalia, 5 — 9, rarissimc 11 ceiit. longa, 2Y2 — ^Va» 

 rarins 5 Jata, membranaceo-coriacea, utrinque glabra, snpra 

 atro-viridia nitida nervo medio impresso, siibtns pallidiora, 

 nervo medio prominente (in sicco fnsco ) nlrinque 5 — 6-ve- 

 nuloso-costato, costulis patulis. Cirrhi in snmmis foliis 

 obvii versus apicera trifidi, teuues, raraulis apice incurvulis. 

 — Cymulae axillares, inferiores 3 — 5-(Iorae, suramae saepe 

 uniflorae, iraa basi bracteis elliptico - lanceolatis oppositis 

 minntissirae pubernlis stipatae, tenuissime pubernlae, raox 

 dichotomae, mox axi contracto fasciculato - subumbellatae, 

 yedicellis ^/^ — 1 V2 ceut. longis fiiiformibus, bracteolis li- 

 neari -lanceolatis deciduis. Calya: coloratus, in sicco ni- 

 grescens et submerabranaceus, virginalis ellipticus utrinque 

 obtusus, centimetro paullo longior, ex ore oblique inaequa- 

 liter 3-dentalo usque ad 1/3 long, venire fissus, sub anthesi 

 e basi tumido-truncata subconicus, 1^/2 — ^ cent. longns, 

 ad V2 ^'*' fissus, ore hiante, dorso convexus, raaguitudine 

 autcm non in oranibus Horibus aequalis; dejloratus persistens 

 tumidus, dorso adhuc convexior, in Universum magis ovams, 

 apice dontato leviter incurvo, 2 cent. lougus. Corolla in 

 vivo ex d. Pocke flava, in sicco violacea, 6^/2 cent. prope- 

 moduro longa, glabra, inferue ad 1/5 ''* '^^si longitudinis cj- 

 lindriea, ibique leviter constricta, indcqnc infundibuliformis, 

 limbo bilabiato erocto - patulo , labio supcriore bilobo , lobis 



