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metüientes, in lobulos 5— 7 partiti palmato - divergentes lineares brevi 
cuspide terminatos fulvos, plumulis albidis mollter-pennatos. Petala 
erecto - patula, obovato- cuneata, concava, apice inciso - acute - dentata, 
reliquo margine integerrima, extus velutina, rubentia, nervis subde- 
cem (in sicco saltem) fulvis lineata, lobos calycis aequantia, vel supe- 
rantia. Staminodia staminaque super faucis marginem haud connata, 
libera. Staminodia glabra, lineari- subulata, inferne resinoso-punctata, 
apice aristaeformi stamina excedentia. Z'lamenta capillaria, aequalia, 
sub anthesi introrsum nutantia. ;ntherae connecüvo simplici dorso 
adnatae, depresso-globosae, fuscae, bilocellares, locellis rima pori- 
formi laterali dehiscentibus. | Qvaréum tubum calycis inferius semire- 
plens.  Qvula 10, in placenta basifixa discoidea peripherice inserta, 
contigua, obliqua, anatropa, raphe centrum spectante. Stylus subu- 
lato-filiformis, arcuatus, vix exsertus vel inclusus, sub stigmate minute 
capitato plumoso - barbatus. 
Subgenus II. Catocalypta. (10—13.) 
Calycis tubus absconditus intra involucrum, confectum e squa- 
mulis 9, a margine exteriore loborum limbi reclinatis, contiguis, circa 
basin tubi margine patelliformi pedunculi complexis, exinde sursum 
replicatis, multifidis, lobulis vero arcte compactis indumentum squa- 
mularum mentientibus. Connectivum profusum in laminam anthe- 
ram pro maxima parte obducentem, nec nisi eius frontem, ubi locelli 
poro dehiscunt, liberum relinquentem. — Stylus inclusus vel breviter 
exsertus, barbatus vel glaber; stigma capitatum. — Flores pro genere 
magni, flavidi, corymbosi. 
40. Nerticordia ZRuegelià Ezmdl. 
V. corymbo simplici, tubo calycis subturbinato inferne hispidulo 
appendiculis loborum capillari-bipinnatifidis reversis coma quasi in- 
duto, lobis mulüfidis, lobulis capillari- pinnatifidis bipinnatifidisque, 
