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4 alterna (exteriora) plerumque extrinsecus sub fauce tubi profundius (usquo ad medium) 

 abeuntia et sublongiora, omnia apice subito filiformi -contracta et antheram minutam 

 deformatam v. tuberculam gerentia v. acutiuscula plane ananthera, dentibus nonnullis 

 integris v. ineiso-dentatis inter staminodia interiora interjectis v. iis adnatis; anthera 

 fertilis glabra, junior oblonga 3 — 4 mm longa, in % alt. v. sub medio dorso affixa; 

 pollinis granula aquae immersa globuloso-tetragona, 61 — 64 microm. diametro. Gynae- 

 ceum totum in floribus hermaphroditis 4 — 5 cm longum arcuato-curvatum, a basi usque 

 ad Stigma (stylo interdum excepto) dense brevissimcque hirtellum; stipes parti i / x — 1 / 3 

 inferiori receptaculi antice adnatus fere 2 an longus; ovarium ipsum lineare 0,7 — 1 cm 

 longum, pluriovulatum ; Stylus 1,5 — 2,3 cm longus, in alabastro tortuosus; stigma depresse 

 capitatum coneavum, stylo duplo crassius. Gynaeceum in floribus maseulis 6 — 10 mm 

 longum, fertili contbrme, ovulis abortivis, v. abortivum aequicrassum , stylo perbrevi 

 acuminatum, stigraate et ovulis nullis. Legumina perparca, in racemo plerumque 

 solitaria 1,5 — 2,5 cm longe stipitata, linearia, ad basin saepius paullum angustata, recta 

 acuta basi styli persistente mucronata plana brunnescentia 8 — 12, raro — 14 cm longa, 

 interdum breviora, 1 — 1,4 cm lata, obsolete et brevissime pilosula v. glabrescentia, trans- 

 versim obsolete v. vix nervosa, dehiscentia. Semina in legumine 6 — 9, in minoribus 

 pauciora, funiculo brevissimo, sed latiusculo et incrassato semiovato, margine tantum 

 more calcareamenti semini affixo, ovalia v. subrhombea 6 — 8 mm longa, 4 — 6 mm lata, 

 2 — 2,5 mm crassa laevia nigrescentia, endospermio corneo juxta faeies cotyledonum satis 

 conspicuo; embryo forma seminis; cotyledones planae basi oblique cordatae, radicula 

 4-plo longiores. 



Habitat in Mexico prope Veracruz: Waicra n. 509, prope Passo- Majo: Wawra 

 n. 879, prope Papantla: Schiede n. 712, prope Cordoba: Bourgeau n. 2119, prope Atoyac: 

 Kerber n. 137, prope Tantoyuca prov. Huasteca: Ervendberg n. 144; in Yucatan prope 

 Campeche: de Chrismar; in G uatemala prope Pete'n: Bernoulli et Cario n. 1237, prope 

 Champerico: iidevi n. 1 140, 1187, in Nicaragua: Wright; in Jamaica: Bertero, 

 March n. 576, Alexander; in St. Domingo: C. Ehrenberg n. 75, Bertero, Mackenzie, 

 Prenleloup n. 138, prope Agua: Mob. Schoinburgk n. 50; in Cuba: Ramon de la 

 Sagra, Wright n. 2384. — Flor, totum per annum. — Vidi speeim. herb. Berol. et 

 Gotting, et plant, cult. 



Obs. L Species quoad characteres florales maxime constans, quoad foliorum 

 formam, magnitudinem, coalitionem formamque foliolorum, amplitudinem et altitudinem 

 anguli apicalis, non raro in iisdem speeiminibus, valde variabilis, sed talimodo, ut varie- 

 tates sisti non possint. 



Obs. II. B. lunaria Cav. Ic. V p. 4 t. 407 et B. subrotundifolia Cav. 1. c. t. 406 

 vix nisi foliorum forma et petalorum, praeeipue unguium pube a B. divaricata L. 

 discrepare videntur. 



2. Bauhinia pauletia Pers. (Sect. Pauletia), ramis juxta petio- 

 lorum iusertionem aculeos geminos subrectos gerentibus; Müs 9- v. 11- 

 uervibus, anibitu orbiculari - subquadratis , basi subcordatis v. fere trun- 

 catis, antice in \— f longit. sub angulo 50—70° excisis, lobis semiovatis 

 v. semiorbicularibus rotundatis ; floribus binatim suboppositifoliis, omnibus 

 in monoebasium terminale seeuudiflorum 10— 40-florum collectis; reeep- 

 taculo obovato-tubuloso ; calycis lobis 10 — 14 cm longis; petalis angustis- 

 sime linearibus h—S cm longis, 1-1,5 mm latis; staminibus 5 alterni- 



