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Frutex paucipedalis scandens. Folia utplurimum 1-2" longa, 
3-6'" lata, exsiccatione tantnm margine revoluta, uninervia, reticu- 
lato-venulosa utrinque opaca, in petiolum bi- v. pauci-linearem 
decurrentia. Bracteol® fere V" longue, lanceolato- v. lineari- 
subulat®. Sepala linea paulo breviora. Petala 6-8 //; longa, superne 
circiter l-^" lata, spathulato-cuneata cuspidulata. Stamina demum 
reclinata. Filamenta basin versus paulo crassiora. Anthers 
Havas cordato-ovat® fere long® dorsifix® oscillatori®. Stylus 
\\-2 m longus. Stigma minutum emarginatum. Capsula 
longa, 3-5'" lata, satis compressa basi et apice obtusissima poly- 
sperma. Valv® extus semibifid®, intus longitudinaliter dehiscentes. 
Funiculi brevissimi. Semina 1-1 metientia, loculi latitudinem 
omnino explentia subrenato-orbiculata nitidula subtiliter punctu- 
lata. 
A Mariantho picto distinguimus speciem hancce novam foliis 
majoribus, bracteolarum forma et magnitudine, prassertim autem 
seminum facie. Ultima nota, qua ad Bursariam attingit, charac- 
terem section alem profert. 
Marianthus ringens. 
(Sect. Calopetalon.) Calopetalon ringens, J. Drumm. sec. Ilary. in Hook. 
Kew. Misc, vii. 52. 
Foliis magnis subcoriaceis lanceolatis v. lineari-lanceolatis v. 
linearibus primo ramulisque subsericeis demum glabris et margine 
recurvis, cyma longe pedunculata conferte multiflora, pedicellis 
subsericeis, sepalis lanceolatis longe acuminatis corolla multoties 
brevioribus, petalis glabris rubicundis acuminatis mox liberis, 
staminibus corolla parum brevioribus, filamentis lineari-spathulatis 
apice subulato- acuminatis , antheris fere oblongis, stylo diu persis- 
tente capsul® longitudinem fere asquante germineque glabris, 
capsula ovali obtusissima, seminibus angulato-ovatis fuscis. 
In locis arenosis ad flumen Chapman. J. Drummond. Prope 
flumen Greenough. Pemb. Walcott. Ad fluvium Murchison. 
A. Oldfield. 
Frutex volubilis pluriformis. Folia pleraque 2-3 // longa, 2-10'" 
lata, uninervia, reticulato-venosa. Bracte® et bracteol® l-l^'" 
long® sericeo-pilos® lineari-subulat®. Sepala in varietate parvi- 
flora tantum V" longa, in var. grandiflora saltern 2"' metientia. 
Petala 5 casu 6-7, longitudine inter -|-1" variantia, lineari-spathu- 
lata, superne saturatius inferne dilutius rubra. Filamenta plana 
uninervia apicem versus §-l /// lata. Anther® e basi cordata ob- 
long® §-l'" long®. Capsula bilocularis 3-4'" longa e chartaceo 
paulo indurans loculicide semibivalvis, dehiscentia stylum in divi- 
siones duas inferne dissiliens. Semina longa mutua pressione 
angulata nec autem complanata nitidula subtilissime reticulato- 
punctulata. 
