FLANTAE AMERICA N AE. 283 



fuperioris calycis et petalum interme- 

 dium e regione ipfius folioli fuperioris 

 prodeunt, 



Staminum membrana a petalls ad infe- 

 riorem Germinis partem extenditur. 



£5. CISSUS. Amotnit acad. 4. p. 889. n, 1039. 



Vidi tres fpecies Americanas, amicifllme in 

 omnibus partibus floris et fru&us confen- 

 tientes, quafque proximas et vix diftinr 

 , guendas effe autumo, licet Characteri 

 Cifli. I. c. non refpondeant. Praeterea 

 Bacca gaudent monofperma, qua carent 

 Hedera et Vitis, vixque crediderim Dn. 

 Mitchelium, has meas nomine Helicis 

 intellexifTe. 



En Characterem fpecierum Americanarum. 

 Cal. margo breviffimus exftans 1. patulus, 

 fubinteger, obfoletiflime quadridentatus, 

 medium Germinis cingens. 

 Cor. Petala quatuor, oblqngo-ovata, mini- 

 ma, convexa, crafliufculis, lateribqs incur- 

 vis ; diftincta, erecta. 



Neffarium : margo acutus, brevifilmus., 

 coronans vel cingens Germen intra fta~ 

 mina, obfolete quadrangulus, qua- 

 dqfariam (pro ftaminibus) obfolete 



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