DECAISSE. — StT. LES CH ARï AINTHÉKS. M ~ 



ftâmull teretes, cortice fuscescente rimoso vesliti, pleni,subnodoso-ar- 

 liculati,glabrescenles ; ramuli obscure angulati pube brevissima subintac- 

 lili fcrruginea dense vestiti. Folio approximala, opposita, patentia, petiolo 

 ferrugineo brevi supra sulcato interne parum tumido suflulta , ovata v. 

 ovato lancolata, breviter acurninata, basi obtusa v. subattenuala ubi très 

 longitudinales nervi supra tenues immersi infra prominentes ad apicem 

 evanidi sunt, multis u trinque venulis transversis laxe retieulatîs tenerrimis, 

 coriacea , supra siccando olivacea , subtus fuscescentia , utrinque opaca , 

 glabra Pedunculi terminales v. axillares, solitarii , subinde cymam tri- 

 floram efficientes, teretes, ferruginei, ad apicem et pedicellorum adexor- 

 tum artîculati, duabus bracteis sessilibus ovatis obtusis obscure 3-nerviis 

 concavis erectis alabastrum tegentibus. Alabastra longe acurninata, pul- 

 verulenta, fuscescentia. Calyx inferne subhemispharicus, ima basi trun- 

 cato-rotundatus, coriaceus, tuberculatus, tuberculis imbricatis gradalim 

 ad apicem tubi majoribus supremis subtriangularibus; limbus acumina- 

 tus et foliolis quatuor concretis calyptrae instar deciduus, coriaceus. Pe- 

 tala 4, aestivatione sinistrorsum torta, subsessilia, v. e lata basi truncata 

 sursum acurninata, obliqua, calyce breviora , in calyptram convoluta 

 hoc statu a calyce sececlentia, v. patula et citissime decidua, glabra. Stâ- 

 mina 8, petala adaequantia, œqualia, ante anthesin replicato-inflexa, post 

 corollae lapsum assurgentia; filamenta brevissima, e lata basi ad calycis 

 marginem internum inserta , ad médium geniculato-incurva , carnosa f 

 glabra ; antherae a latere compressa? , crassœ , leviter arcuatae , obtusae , 

 connectivo carnoso continuo longitrorsum adnata?, biloculares , loculis 

 rima longitudinali deliiscentibus, appositis, parallelis, basi et apice ob- 

 tusis. Stylus e centro ovarii assurgens, cylindraceus, brevis, crassus, sta- 

 mina superans , persistens , glaber; stigma terminale , oblongum , obtu- 

 sum, quadrisulcum , et androphorum Cucurbitacearum quorumdam re- 

 ferens, papillosum, longitrorsum stylo adnatum. Ovarium calyci adnalum, 

 dissepimentis quatuor completis longitudinalibus versus axem paulo 

 crassioribus quadriioculare, quovis loculamento inferne placentarium la- 

 térale pulvinatum carnosum ovulisinnumeris obsessum continente. Ovula 

 anatropa, subcuneata, erecta, funiculo brevi adnata, raphen obducente 

 callosa quasi immersa. Fructus et semina desiderantur. 



3. KlBESSIA CUPULARTS. 



( Due. in Deless. Icon. sélect., vol. V, t. 5.) 



K. ramulis glabris, calycis tubo tuberculis simplicibus onusto , 



limbo angulato obscure ft-gono obtuso. 



Pternandra echinata Jack. Wall. cai. herb. Ind. ? /|078 (herb. 

 Delessert). 



