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90 FRIES, ENTWURF EINER MONOGRAPHIE DER GATTUNGEN WISSADULA UND PSEUDABUTILON. | 
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Verbreitungsgebiet, das, im mittleren Mexiko belegen, mit keinem der nahestehenden | 
Arten zusammentfällt. | 
Species a me non vise vel nondum satis note. 
Wissadula Balanse HaAssr. 
HaAssLErR in Bull. de PHerb. Boissier. Sér. II: 7. p. 458 (1907); non E. G. 
BAKER! -” 
Herba 0,4-—0,8 m. alta; caulis vulgo virgatus vel pauciramosus, strictus, teres, 
basi cire. 3 mm. crassus, lepidibus incanis pulverulento-tomentellus, apicem vers | 
et in ramulis pilis stellatis flavicantibus, pilis glanduliferis longioribus sparsis in 
mixtis, dense vestitus. Internodia usque ad 6 cm. longa, ad apicem ramorum sen 
decrescentia. HStipulsa lineari-lanceolate, acute, 4—6 mm. longe et 1—1,25 mm. lat 
nervo mediano subtus paulo prominente percurse, pilis stellatis hirsutulae. Petioli 
foliorum inferiorum 8—9 cm. longi, a basi ad apicem ramorum decrescentes et 
foliis summis vix 3 mm. attingentes, patentes, teretes, in foliis inferioribus et media 
ad 1,5 mm. crassi, indumento pulverulento-tomentoso incano vestiti, apice leviter 
dilatati, basi tractu 3—5 mm. longo, abrupte longitudinaliter plicato contracti et vi 
"/2 diametrum partis superioris metientes. Laminzge membranacexr virides subtusque 
paulo pallidiores, cordato-ovatae, late ovate vel superne ovato-lanceolate, basi corda 
vel subceordatze, apice acute vel acuminate, pilis stellatis minutis supra sparse, subtus 
paulo densius vestite, margine irregulariter crenate (crenis obtuse rotundatis, 3—5 
mm. latis et 1—1,5 mm. altis), 7-nervie, nervis supra leviter, subtus manifeste prom 
nentibus; lamine maxime 9 cm. longe et 6,5 cm. late, in foliis superioribus n 
nores. Flores axillares, ramulo accessorio florifero comitati, vel ad apicem caulis 
paniculam parvam plus minus foliosam formantes; pedunculi 0,5—4,5 cm. longi, 
flexuosi, graciles, pilis stellatis fulvis, glanduliferis longioribus intermixtis, dense 
hirsutuli. — Calyx turbinato-campanulatus, c. 5 mm. altus, extus pilis fulvis de: 
glanduliferis intermixtis, hispidulus, in lobos 5 late-triangulares acutos ad '/s div 
Petala late obovata, leviter inzequilatera, apice obtuse rotundata, basi paulo angustata, 
8 mm. longa et ad 5 mm. lata, intus glabra, marginibus basalibus piloso-ciliat 
extus pilis brevibus sparsis vestita. Tubus stamineus conicus, 4 mm. longus, pilis 
brevibus patulis hispidulus; filamenta c. 1 mm. longa. Ovarium ovali-cylindrieum, 
basi glabrum, 5-merum, c. 1,5 mm. altum; dissepimenta apice aristiforme elonga 
ovula in loculis 3; styli 5, circ. 4 mm. longi, ad ?/+ longitudinis coaliti, pars libe 
tubum stamineum paulo superans; stigmata capitellata. Carpidia membranac 
oblongo-rotundato-subtrigona, in acumen aristiforme longiusculum producta, del 
hispido-tomentosula, semen evolutum unicum includentia. d 
Paraguay centralis: pr. San Bernardino, in prediis incultis [HASSLER 390; 
herb. Hassler. et Mus. Brit.]. 
