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PLANTAE 



AMERICANAE. 



Seäto i ; ma. 



GENERA NOVA. 



* TR1ÄNDRIA. 



MONOGYNIA. 



53. COM ME LINA? Wachendorfia 



Authoris. 



Planta debilis, annua, digitali-fpithamalis, glabra, 

 fimpiex, interdum e bafi rainofa. 



Folia ovata £ ovato - lanceolata, bafi cordata, fefiilia, 

 fuperiora in ramis fterilibus conferta etimbricata 

 in rofam patentem j in frudificantibus vero omnia 

 alterna, remotaj bafi vaginantia: vagifHila in- 

 tegra ftriata. 



Florcs pauci 2-6, feffiles, ex axillis fokorüm con- 

 ferti, bradeolis fpathtilatis linearis acutis diflin- 

 &i (hinc habitus fere Gommelinae, cui affine ge- 

 nus efi). 



Ne&ario omnino caret. Corollae color aqueus. 

 Cal. Perianthium triphyllum, eredhim : foliolis 



lineari-fubulatis , dorfo-carinatis, perfiftentibuf, 



marcefcentibus* 

 Cor. Petalattiz, linearis, acuta, membranacea, 



calycis longitudine, eredla, apice patula. 

 St am. Filament* tria, capillaria, coroüa duplo 



longiora, ere<äa. Anthrax fubrotundae. 



