80 



Urban : 



19. Piriqueta Odorata Urb., arbor rainis junioribus densissime 

 pulverulento-velutinis; foliis bre viter stipulatis, 8 — 10 cm longis, 3 — Acm 

 latis, glabris, basin versus loco crenarum callos glandulosos gerentibus; 

 bracteolis subfoliaceis, supra medium pedunculi obviis; calyce 44 — 50 mm 

 longo; filamentis stylisque inferne dense pubescentibus; ovario brevissime 

 velutino-tomentoso, ovulis plurimis. 



Erblichia odorata B. Seem.! Bot. Her. 130. 

 Icon: B. Seem. I. c. t. 27! 



Arbor 7 — 10 mm alta „ligno albido"; rami vetustiores glabrescentes v. glabri, 

 teretes, tenuiter et irregulariter striati, brunnei v. nigrescentes, hornotini angulati. 

 Stipulae juxta petioli basin prodeuntes, 1,5 — 2 mm longae, lanceolato-subulatae. 

 Folia 8 — 10 mm longe petiolata, elliptica v. ovato-lanceolata, basi plus minus cuneata, 

 apice acuminata, 2 l / 2 — 3-plo longiora quam latiora, fere usque ad basin crenato-dentata, 

 crenis postice sensim minoribus, sed evidentius apice glanduloso-incrassatis v. -emar- 

 ginatis, infimis ad calios glandulosos in paginam intrantes reductis, glabra v. ad nervum 

 medium obsolete pilosula, supra nitida. Flores verisimiliter monomorphi, remotiusculi; 

 pedunculi 2— 3 cm lODgi, 2 — 3 mm crassi, indumento ramorum; prophylla subopposita 

 v. alterna, 4 — 6 mm longe petiolata, lanceolata, cum petiolo 2— 3 cm longa, 3 — 5 mm 

 lata, basi stipulata, margine obsolete glanduloso-dentata, pilis brevibus et simplicibus 

 plus minus dense obsita; pedicelli 0,8 — 1,2 cm longi. Calyx extrinsecus pilis bre- 

 vissimis parce et obsolete puberulus, „coloratus" , sepalis 5 — 8 mm latis lanceolato- 

 linearibus, acuminatis et breviter (er. 1mm longe) mucronatis. Petala calycem fere 

 duplo superantia „flava odorata obovato-oblonga", 70 mm et ultra longa. Antherae 

 (ex icone) ovato-oblongae apiculatae. Stigmata apice dilatata, oblique desecta et fim- 

 briata. Ovarium ovale. Semina „ovato-oblonga, recta". 



Habitat in America centrali, in silvulis insularum Paredez ad oram Veraguas 

 australis i B.^ Seemann. 



IV. Mathurina Balf. fil 



Mathurina Balf . fil. in Linn. Soc. Journ. XV {1876) 159 et in Phil. 

 Trans, of the Roy. Soc. Lond. vol. 168 (1879) p. 342 (seors. imp. p. 41) 

 t. 21; Bat Flor. Maur. and Seych. 104. 



Sepala libera, supra insertionem filamentorum glandula subovali 

 apice truncata v. subemarginata crassa 5 mm longa exornata. Petala 

 commissuris sepalorum paullo supra eorum basin adnata, subhypogyna, 

 longitudine calycem aequantia, acuminata, basi vix unguiculata, nuda. 

 Filamenta subhypogyna, sepalis imis 1 — 1,5 mm longe adnata, superne 

 subulato-attenuata; antherae exsertae, basi eniarginatae, apice acutiusculae. 

 Styli supra basin arcuato-divergentes, superne iterum subineurvati, an- 

 theras longe superantes, apice dilatato obsolete lacero-fimbriati. Fructus 

 obovato-oblongus triqueter, 2 1 / 2 -plo longior quam crassior, ab apice ad 

 basin dehiscens, dorso laevis enervis. Semina numerosissima, multi- 

 seriata, recta subrectave, tenuiter reticulato-striata, areolis reticuli epo- 

 rosis, in hilum breviter conicum abeuntia, non abrupte contracta, sed 



