296 



Non Paullinia barbadensis „?" Schlechtendal et Chamisso in Linnaea VI (1831) p. 419, 



n. 1291, coli. Schiede et Deppe; cfr. P. fuscescens Kunth 



(c. obs. 4). 

 Non — Bentham Bot. Voy. Sulphur IV (1844) p. 76, n. 114, coli. 



Hinds; cfr. P. fuscescens Kunth. 

 Non — „?" Gray, Asa, Wilkes U. S. Explor. Exped. XV, Bot. I 



(1854) p. 249, n. 5 („Brazil, near Rio Janeiro"), quae 



Serjania clematidifolia Camb.! (Folium vidi, a cl. Gray a. 



1878 missum.) Cf. Radlk. üb. Sapindus in Sitzungsb. d. 



k. bayer. Akad., 1878, p. 224 annot.; Serj. Suppl. (1886) 



p. 52, 119. 

 Non — — 0. Kuntze Revis. Gen (1891) p, 144!; cfr. P. fuscesc. K., excl. 



var. ß barbata e Sabanilla in Columbia (sphalmate „Co- 



chinchina"), quae Serj. polyphylla Radlk., cf. infra obs. n. 1. 

 Perperam citatur Paullinia Seriana „Gaertner tab. 79" ad Urvill. Serian. Griseb., i.e. 



Urvill. ulmac. Kunth, in Grisebaeh Flora Brit. West Ind. 



Isl. (1859 — 64) p. 123, n. 4; cf. ITist. gen. in Radlk. Serj. 



p. 37 et infra obs. n. 1. 



Scandens, fruticosa, glabra; rami subteretes, glabriusculi; corpus lignosum simplex; 

 folia biteniata ; foliola ovalia, obtusa, basi augustata, terminalia saepius obovata, basi attenuata, 

 omnia sessilia, integerrima vel subrepando-crenata, coriaceo-chartacea, supra laevigata, 

 nitidissirna, subtus glabra, nee nisi in axillis nervorum interd-um barbato-pilosa, glandulis 

 microscopicis inclinatis saepius per paria approximatis obsita, impunetata, reti utriculorum 

 latieiferorum obscuro subtus instrueta, epidermide mucigera; rhachis (petiolus partialis iuter- 

 medius) marginata vel subalata; stipulae minimae; thyrsi solitarii, puberuli; flores parvi, 

 pulverulento-puberuli ; Capsula trialata, e late obovato elliptica vel suborbicularis, brevissime 

 vel vix brevissime stipitata, extus puberula, intus tomentella; semen (immaturum tantum 

 suppetebat) glabrum, arillo usque ad medium obtectum. 



Rami diametro 1 — 2 mm, lenticellis notati, cortice griseo-fusco. Folia 6 — 8 cm longa, 

 totidem lata; foliola superiora 3 — 5 cm longa, 1,3 — 2 cm lata, inferiora vix 1 -centimetralia. 

 sicca fusca vel plumbeo-nigra; petiolus communis circ. 1 — 2 cm longus, supra sulcatus, glaber, 

 rhachis nunc paullo longior, nunc brevior. Thyrsi 3 — 15 cm longi, peduneulati vel sessiles, 

 parum dense cincinnigeri; cincinni sessiles vel subsessiles, contracti; bracteae bracteolaeque 

 minimae; pedicelli 1 — 2 mm longi. Sepala duo exteriora duas interiorum tertias aequantia, 

 extus puberula, interiora late ovalia, circ. 2 mm longa. Petala ovalia; squamae duas peta- 

 lorum tertias aequantes, margine villosae, crista breviore emarginata appendiceque deflexa 

 barbata instruetae. Tori glandulae suborbiculares , glabrae. Staminum filamenta pilosa; 

 antherae glabrae. Germen densius laxiusve tomentellum. Capsula 1,4 — 1,7 cm longa, 

 1,2 — 1,5 cm lata, rubro-fusca. 



In Jamaica (nee in Barbados, quam insulam Jacquin in prooemio ad Enum. PI. 

 Carib. patriam esse judieavit et in plantae nomine perperam pronunciavit) : Sloane! (a. 1696; 

 Hb. Sloane in Mus. Brit. servat , Vol. IV, Fol. 103, cf. Lit.; an et Fol. 104? cf. obs. 1 ad 

 Pauli, jamaic, p. 202); Houston! (a. 1730, Hb. Banks, nunc Mus. Brit., speeim. fruet. juvenil.; 

 „Hb. Miller" in Hb. Banks); idem(?)! (speeim. a Jacquin descriptum originarium floribus 

 delapsis in Hb. Mygind, nunc Pestino servatum, nee non alterum in Hb. Jacquin, nunc Banks 

 translat ; cf. Lit. sub Jacq.); Shakespeare! (Hb. Banks; fruetus steriles a Gaertner sub nom. 

 „Pauli. Seriana" delin., cf. Lit.); Dr. W. Wright! (Hb. Banks, nunc Mus. Brit.; Hb. Forsyth, 

 nunc Benth.; ab eodem verosimiliter lectum in Hb. Prodr. DC, ex Hb. Forsyth, communicat, 

 cf. obs. 1, annot.; an et alterum speeimen? ab Aiton c. DC. commun.); Patrik Browne! 

 (Hb. Linne sub n..4 „Pauli, mexicana", a Smith nomine „Pauli, barbadensis?" insignit., fruetib. 



