(241) 175 



(flores non visi;) Capsula globosa, breviter stipitata, spinis rigidis laxius echinata, extus 

 intusque glabra; semen ultra duas tertias arillo dorso fisso obtectum, testa glabra spadiceo-rubra, 



Rami diametro 3 mm, cortice pallide subfusco. Folia 16 cm longa, totidem lata; foliola 

 9 — 12 cm longa, margine revoluta, sicca parum fuscescentia; petiolus communis 4 cm longus, 

 teres, supra leviter angusteque sulcatus; petioluli 2 — 4 mm longi. Thyrsi (fructiferi tantum 

 suppetebant) 30 cm longi, breviter pedunculati, rhachi diametro 2 — 8 mm, laxius cincinnigeri. 

 cincinnis sessilibus contractis; pedicelli (fructiferi) 3 — 4 mm longi. Capsula stipite circ. 3 mm 

 longo adjecto 2 — 3 cm longa, spinis 4 — 7 mm longis, pericarpio 4 — 5 mm crasso. Semen circ. 

 12 mm longum, .8 mm latum. 



In Peruvia orientali: Spruce n. 3883! (prope Yurimaguas, in ripis fluminum Huallagua 

 et Maraiion haud infrequens, m. Maj. 1855, fruct. ; Hb. Mus. Brit., Mart.). 



Sectio VII. Xyloptilon. 



69. Paullinia tiirbacensis Kunth. 



Paullinia turbacensis Kunth in Humb. Bonpl. K. Nov. Gen. et SiJ. V (1821) p. 89 (Ed. 



in 40 p. 114), n. 1!; Vol. VII (1825) Distrib. geograph., Flora 

 Novo-Granatens. p. 287 (Ed. in 4" p. 366). 



— — Kunth Synops. PI. Aequinoct. Orb. Nov. III (1824) p. 157, n. 1; 



IV (1825) Distrib. geogr., Flor. N.-Granat. p. 383. 



— — De Cand. Prodr. I (1824) p. 604, n. 1. 



— — Spreng. Syst. Veg. II (1825) p. 248, n. 4. 



— — Cambess. in Mem. Mus. d'Hist. nat. XVIII (1829) p. 23. 



— — Don General Syst. I (1831) p. 660, n. 1. 



— — Dietrich, Fr. G., Gartenlex. XXVI (s. Neuer Nachtrag VI, 1837) 



p. 431, n. 2. 



— — Dietrich, Dav., Synops. PI. II (1840) p. 1314, n. 4. 



— — Steudel Nomencl. Ed. II, II (1841) p. 278. 



— — Triana &Planch. Prodr. Flor. Novo-Granat., Ann. Scienc. nat., IV. Ser., 



XVIII (1862) p. 355, n. 11. 



— — Radlitofer in Monogr. Serj. (1874—75) p. 71 n. 39 etc. (v. indic). 

 Paullinia spec. Hemsley in Biolog. Centr.-Am., Bot. I (1879 — 81) p. 211, n. 19; „coli. 



Sutton Hayes n. 499"! 



— — Anales del Museo Nacional, Republica de Costa Rica. I (1888), Pars 2, p. 20 



(secundum Biolog. Centr.-Am. enumerata c. indicat. „Panama"). 



Scandens, fruticosa, glabra; rami subteretes, lenticellosi, glabri; folia ternata; foliola 

 lateralia oblongo-lanceolata, terminale majus ovatum , omnia apice acuminata, basi subacuta 

 vel terminale obtusum, supra medium remote et grosse serrato- vel repando-dentata, terminale 

 longe, lateralia breviter petiolulata, membranacea, nitidula, sicca viridia, subtus in axillis 

 nervorum barbata, glandulis microscopicis clavatis inclinatis obsita, punctis pellucidis minimis 

 crebris notata, nee nou reti utriculorum laticiferorum interrupto subtus instructa, epidermide 

 non mucigera; stipulae parvae, subulatae; thyrsi solitarii, puberuli, laxius cincinniferi; cincinni 

 subsessiles, pauUum elongati; flores pedicellati majores; sepala omnia libera; Capsula cuneata, 

 apiculata, trivalvis, valvis a lateribus compressis dorso carina longitudinali subalatis; seminis 

 testa pilosa (junioris abortivi glabra). 



