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Materiaes para a Flora Amazonica 
stipitatum, stipite dorso tubi disciferi adnato, lineare, 
stylo elongato stigmate capitato. 
Genus a Brownea bracteolis deficientibus peta- 
lisque rudimentariis differt. 
Browneopsis ucayalina Hub. n sp. (1506). Fig. 1. 
Arbor mediocris depressa, foliis simpliciter ab- 
rupte pinnatis, petiolo basi articulato foliolis in rha- 
chi terete trijugis vel saepius quadrijugis oppositis 
vel suboppositis oblongis (8 — 18 cm X 3-—5 em) 
basi rotundatis vel acutiusculis breviter articulato- 
petiolulatis, apice acuminatis subcoriaceis glabris su- 
pra mitidulis infra opacis nervo primario secunda- 
risque supra plus minus immersis subtus argute 
prominentibus, rete venulorum utroque latere pro- 
minulo. Inflorescentie ex trunco ramisque erumpen- 
tes subsessiles capitulate bracteis longitudine a basi 
valde accrescentibus, inferioribus brevissimis inter- 
mediisque maioribus latissime rotundatis coriaceis 
striatis, superioribus ovatis summis oblongis (4— 5 
cm longis) tenuioribus apice obtusis, omnibus extus 
minutissime fulvo-tomentellis, intimis solum glabres- 
centibus. Flores in axis extremitate fere globosa ses- 
siles dense capitulati bracteis propriis bracteolisque 
carentes. Calycis tubus discifer cylindricus vel plus 
minus obconicus (1 cm longus) pressione mutua 
saepe leviter tetragonus vel trigonus, segmenta (4) 
plus minus alte connata vel unum subliberum, basi 
in sicco saepe circumscissa, lineari-oblonga (2 em 
X 0.5 cm) apice rotundata ct margine ciliata extus 
brevissime sparseque puberula intus glabra, ochroleuca. 
Petala (3-—4) inaequalia, maiora circa 3 mm longa 
anguste linearia vel subulata. Stamina 12—15 fila- 
mentis 4 cm longis ad medium longitudinis in tubum 
supra fissum concrescentibus apice inflexis, antheris 
6—7 mm longis. Ovarii pars libera cum stipite 1,0 
cm longa extus ferrugineo-tomentella, stylus 3-3.5 
cm longus apice inflexus stigmate capitato. Legumen 
longius (3,5cm) stipitatum leviter falcatum (17—18 
