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rectangularibus, obtusis paullo breviora. Staminodia 0. ln flore 2 
ovarium glabrum, stylo subbreviore. Cupula plana, perianthii lobis per- 
sistentibus, auctis coronata. 
Frutex v. arbor ramulis apice minute piloso-tomentellis , glabratis fasco-cinereis 
deraum cinereis, subteretibus, gemmis cinereo-tomentellis, cortice esipido. Folia petiolis 
usque ad 7 mm longis, laminä sequente dilatatis, ecanaliculatis, sparsa, rigida, praeter 
costarum axillas subtus barbellatas et foveato-domatiatas subglabra, sabnitida, late et 
nonnunquam suborbicalari-elliptica v. obscore obovata, basi breviter acuminata, apice 
obtuse acuta v. acumine quasi mucronulato imposito obtusa, + 35 mm longa, 20 mm 
lata, penninervia , utrinque prominenti-reticulata , costis supra sulcato-immersis e nervo 
medio sub angulo 45 — 65° prodeuntibus, margine incurvato. Inflorescentia subpauci- 
flora, in ramulorum apice subcorymboso-panniculata, parce pilosa, folia subaequans, pedicellis 
1 — 3 mm longis, bracteolis subpersistentibus. Flores dioici, cT ignoti, $ parce pilosi, 
3 mm longi. Perianthii tubus nullus. Limbi segmenta late ovata, acuta. 
Filamenta (in flore 2) parce pilosa, antheris paullo breviora; seriei III. glandulis binis 
longe ab illorum basi remotis, majusculis, globosis, sessilibus aucta. Antherae rectan- 
gulares, apice obtusae. Staminodia abortiva. Ovarium glaberrimum, subglobosum, 
stylo subbreviore, percrasso, stigmate maximo, pulvinato-discoideo. Bacca ellipsoidea, 
25 mm longa, 11 mm diam., basin versus valde attenuata, apice discoideo-obtusa stylique 
rudimentis aucta, cupulae planae, perianthii lobis valde auctis, persistentibus coronatae, 
clavatim in pedicellnm solemniter incrassatum attenuatae insidens, tota exserta. Em- 
bryo cotyledonibus hemiellipsoideis , apice acutis, corculum haud longe includentibus. 
Plumula glabra radiculaque brevissima, obtusa. 
Hab. in B oliviae septentrionalis Andium nemoribus prope Sorata, regione temperaia: 
Mandon n. 1043. 
Floret Novembri. (Fl s. in herb. Boiss.-Barbey., Mus. Brit . , Candoll ., Goetting., 
Holm., Keic., Vindob.) 
Obs. In embryone unico plumulam monophyllam, anomalam vidi. 
104. Ocotea Langsdorffii Mez. Folia coriacea, glaberrima, lau- 
ceolata v. ovato-lanceolata, utrinque acuta v. apice obtusiuscule acuta, 
penninervia, utrinque prominenti-reticulata. Inflorescentia laxe pannicu- 
lata, glaberrima, foliis brevior. Flores dioici glaberrimi. Perianthii tubus 0. 
Filamenta glabra, antheris subrectangularibus, obtusis subduplo breviora. 
Staminodia 0. In flore 2 ovarium glabrum, stylo subaequilongo. 
Oreodaplme Langsdorffii Meissn. in DC. Prodr. XV, 1, p. 128 et 
in Mart. fi. Bros. V, 2, p. 225. 
Frutex 1 — 3 m altus (ex Riedel!) ramulis glaberrimis, plus minus glauco-pruinosis, 
subangulatis v. crassioribus teretibus, gemmis glaberrimis, cortice adstringente, esipido. 
Folia petiolis usque ad 20 mm longis, solemniter dilatatis, ecanaliculatis, sparsa, coriacea, 
glaberrima, lanceolata v. ovato-lanceolata, basi acuta, apice obtusiuspule acuta v. acuta, 
+ 80 mm longa, 1 5 mm lata, penninervia, utrinque elegantissime perlaxeque prominenti- 
reticulata, costis e nervo medio sub angulo 20 (ad basin) — 45° (apice) prodeuntibus, 
margine minute recurvo v. subplano. Inflorescentia pauciflora, laxe squarroseque 
