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mox clausâ. Ovarrumoblongum, glabrum, 2-loculare , polyspermum: 
ovula in quovis loculamento placentæ affixa proeminenti. CapsuLa 
ovata , compressiuscula, 2-sulcata, glabra, 2-valvis, polysperma; 
valvulis dissepimentis parallelis, 2-partitis ; placentis dehiscentiä 
septicidà à marginibus angustis dissepimenti solutis, timque mas- 
sulam oblongam in centro capsulæ efformantibus. Sema minutis— 
’ sima, oblongo-cylindrica , angulata , subpunctata , rufa. INTEGUMEN- 
Tum submembranaceum. PerisPERMUM carnosum. Emsryo rectus, in 
semine axilis : radicula obtusa : cotyledones radiculä breviores. 
Crescit in pascuis humidis vel paludosis propè præcipitem aquæ 
lapsum fluminis Uruguay dictum Salto grande rivulumque Gara- 
puità, in provincià Rio grande do Sul, haud longè à finibus provin- 
ciæ Missionum. Floret Januario. 
2. STEMODIA GRATIOLÆFOLIA. + 
S. foliis oppositis, sessilibus, linearibus, acutis, obsoletissimè 
dentatis, glabris; floribus paniculatis, subsessilibus, in axillis 
bractearum subsolitariis; calyce glabriusculo. 
Cauuis herbaceus, 6-14 pollicaris, erectus, apice ramosus, basi 
stolonifer, 4-gonus, glaber : rami breves , 4-goni : stolonæ graciles, 
reptantes, 3-7-pollicares, punctis exterioribus glandulosis conspersi 
lutescentibus. Forra caulina opposita, sessilia, circiter 18 1. longa, 
2 |. lata, linearia, acuta, obsoletissimè dentata ( J’eronicæ scutel- 
latæ), punctis glandulosis conspersa , glabra ; stolonum erecta , se- 
cunda ,'circiter 6 1. longa, 1 + lata, lineari-oblonga , falcata , sub- 
integerrima , glabra. Panicura terminalis, subcoarctata (si mavis, 
racemi in apice caulis axillares , simplices) : paniculæ rami oppositi, 
erectiusculi, distantes , simplices, bi vel trifidi, 4-goni, graciles, 
glabri, enati ex axillis bractearum 2, oppositarum, caulinarum, 
foliüis conformium , infrà flores insuper onusti bracteis quibusdam 
oppositis, foliis consimilibus sed multo minoribus (folia ramea). 
Frores in paniculæ ramis spicati, remotiusculi, oppositi, sessiles 
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