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conjunctus; exteriores extrinsecus ramulos irregulares edentes, pars superior alarum 
atque margo lata sine nervatura ; alæ quam corolla breviores. Corolla petalis 3 ope 
tubi staminalis leviter coalita. Petala superiora triangularia ; apice lata, basi cuneata, 
basi tantum leviter cum tubo staminali connata, quam carina breviora, nervo fla- 
bellate ramoso. Carina triloba, cucullata, unguiculo brevi, leviter cum tubo staminali 
connata, ecristata, læte rosea. Antheræ oblongæ; filamenta longissima. Ovarium 
scutellatum quam stylus mutoties brevius. Stylus apice in stigma superius redupli- 
catus. Capsula obcordata, profunde et late emarginata, ei capsulæ Bursæ Pastoris 
haud dissimilis, alis longior et latior, pedicello brevior, patens vel vix pendula, 
pedicello recto, patente, nec curvato. Semina cylindrica, pilis sublongis hirsuta, 
carunculata. Caruncula carinata semiorbicularis, duobus appendicibus helicoideis 
munita, semini superposita nec in eo equitans. 
Schimper : It. Abyss. Sect. IT, n° 1188, sect. III, 1650. Prope Gafta (1188) ; 
prope Djeladjeranne Abyssiniæ. 
Obs. Hujus subsectionis esse appareat P. hyssopifolia Boj. et forsan P. linifloræ 
maxime affinis (XII Rapp. annuel. Soc. d’hist. nat. île Maurice, 1842) vid. sub 
addend. 
P. quineensis Willdn. 
Spec. III, p. 882 ; DC. prodr. I; Oliver, fl. trop. Afr. I, p. 332. Ramosus, 
ramis tenuibus, glabris; folia angustissima, linearia, acicularia, filiformia, 
erecta ; racemi terminales, tenuissimi, laxiflori eis P. niloticæ simillimi, bracteæ 
caducæ ; pedicelli filiformes flore subbreviores, patuli; flores parvi ad 4-5 mm. 
longi; sepala margine ciliata, duo anteriora connata; alæ obtusæ, oblonge obo- 
vatæ subfalcatæ apice rotundatæ, nervis anastomosantibus; crista plurifida, lobis 
linearibus di vel tri-4 fidis, summæ carinæ adpresso-curvata, petala triangularia ; 
antheræ normales 8 ; stigma ut in fig. delineavi (143 b.) ovarium scutellatum ; alæ 
demum caducæ ergo fructus subnudus, emarginatus, obovatus. 
Hab. Guineam ubi legit Thonning (v. s. in Hb. prop. Willd. et in Hb. Copenh.). 
