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Scandens, fruticosa, pubescens; rami juniores subteretes, pube vel tomento brevi induti, 

 adultiores glabrati; corpus lignosum simplex; folia biternata, interdum depauperata, 5-foliolato- 

 pinnata; foliola ovalia vel sublanceolata , apice basique obtusiuscula vel acuta, terminalia 

 latiora, subrhombea, basi longius breviusve attenuata vel cuneata, lateralia inferiora minora 

 ex ovato suborbicularia, omnia remotius serrato-dentata, dentibus acutis obtusisve conspicuis 

 raro subobsoletis, sessilia, subchartacea, supra praeter nervös puberulos glabra, subtus velutino- 

 tomentosa vel glabriuscula, glandulis microscopicis geniculatis supra subtusque obsita, im- 

 punctata,. reti utriculorum laticiferorum interrupto pellucido subtus instructa, epidermide 

 mucigera; rhachis (petiolus partialis intermedius) marginata vel subalata; stipulae parvae, 

 subulatae; thyrsi solitarii, laxius densiusve pubescentes; flores mediocres, puberuli; Capsula 

 trialata, latius obovata, basi in stipitem brevem abruptius contracta, alis basi angustatis, 

 extus pubescens vel glabrata, intus pube crispa induta; seraen breviter obovoideum, glabrum, 

 arillo fere ad medium obtectum. 



Rami diametro 2 — 4 mm. Folia 7 — 15 cm longa, fere totidem lata; foliola lateralia 

 superiora 3 — 5 cm longa, 1 — 2 cm lata, terminalia majora, lateralia inferiora saepius vix 1cm 

 longa et lata, sicca fusca vel fusco-viridia; petiolus communis 1 — 3 cm longus, supra sulcatus, 

 pubescens, rhachis plerumque paullo brevior; stipulae vix 2 mm longae. Thyrsi 5 — 15 cm 

 longi, brevius longiusve pedunculati, dense cincinnigeri; cincinni sessiles, contracti; bracteae 

 bracteolaeque subulatae, parvulae; pedicelli 1 mm vix superantes. Flores albi (Galeotti; 

 flavi, Linden). Sepala duo exteriora dimidiam interiorum partem vel duas tertias aequantia, 

 extus densius laxiusve pubescentia, interiora ovalia, petaloidea vel rigidiora, 2 — 3 mm longa. 

 Petala oblonga vel oblongo-ovalia, saepius obovata; squamae duas petalorum tertias vel petala 

 fere tota aequantes, latae, margine villosae, superiores crista brevi longioreve emarginata vel 

 integra glabra pilosave appendiceque deflexa barbata instructae. Tori glandulae suborbiculares, 

 puberulae. Staminum filamenta densius laxiusve pilosa; antherae glabrae. Gfermen pube 

 brevi vel tomento indutum. Capsula! — 1,5 cm longa, 1 — 1,2 cm lata, rubra (Splitgerber), 

 sicca nigro-fusca. Semen circ. 6 mm longum, 4 mm latum, spadiceo-nigrum. 



Formas 3 distinguere potueris, sed unam in alteram transientes, ideoque in sequente 

 speciminum enumeratione plerumque quoad extremas tantum indicatas, ubi specimina scribenti 

 mihi (vel notae) ad manus erant: 



Forma 1. velutina (eademque genuina; Pauli, fuscescens Kunth; Pauli, velutina DC; 

 Pauli, fusca Griseb.): Foliola subtus velutino-tomentosa; fructus densius laxiusve pubescens. 



Forma 2. intermedia (Pauli, curassavica L. apud Kunth): Folia subtus laxius pubes- 

 centia, inferiora saepius plus minus glabrescentia; fructus pubescens. 



Forma 3. glabrescens (Serjania pubescens, non Kunth, Seemann, forma glabrescens 

 Tr. & PI.; Pauli, fuscescens K., forma glabrescens Radlk. in Serj. Monogr. 1875, p. 56): Folia 

 subtus glabrescentia; fructus pubescens vel glabratus. 



In America tropica continentali a Novo-Granata et Ecuador ad Venezuelam 

 et Guianam batavam, inclusis insulis Novo-Granatae et Venezuelae proximis Taboga et 

 Trinidad, nee non in America centrali et in Mexico; praeterea, ut videtur, in Cuba: 

 In Novo-Granata: Houston(?)! (Carthagena ca. 1730; Hb. Cliffort n. 5, verosimiliter a Miller 

 commun., fruet., f. 3; Hb. Miller, resp. Banks, „P. curass." a Solander inscr., fruet. a 

 Schum. in tab. X f. 7 delin. et alterum ex Hb. Mill. speeimen, altero nomine non edendo a 

 Solander insignit.); idem?! (Hb. Linn. n. 5, „P. curass." f . 2 a Mill. ut videtur comm., a 

 Schum. in tab. XI f. 2 inscriptione „P. curass. L. Herb." indicata, cf. obs. n. 2); Bertero! 

 (S. Martha, a. 1821; , r P. tomentosa L., Balbis in coli. Berter." ed. Turczan. sub P. fuscesc. 

 — sphalm. „pubescens" — 1858, Hb. Taurin. etc.; cf. lit. et infra obs. n. 1; „P. velutina 

 DC." etc., in Ic. Deless. t. 37 delin., Hb. Prodr. DC, speeimen sub nom. „P. tomentosa L." 

 a Balbis communicat.; cf. lit. et infra obs. n. 1, f. 1); Billberg n. 89! (Carthagena, ca. 1825; 



