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benti-lomentosus aut puberulus. Flores dioici : raasculi race- 
mosi, racerao axillari, ramoso, foliis breviori j pedicellis gracili- 
bus pubescentibus apice iocrassatis. 
Caljx quadrisepalus, païens, slellatus^ sepalis basi inter se sub- 
coalitis, oblongis ovalibus, acutis, margine membranaceis, externe 
pilosis, facie interna glabriusculis. 
Disons cupulæforrais (corolla monopelala auctorum) calyce 
multo brevior, ereclus, crassiusculus, margine truncalus, subsi- 
nuosus, amplior. 
Stamina4, monadelpha : androphorum crassum planum, cen- 
trum disci , florisqne occupans, breve, apice Iruncatum, disci 
altitudinem vix superans. Antheræ quatuor sessiles,margini trun- 
caturæ androphori affixæ, transverse ovatæ, sulco transversali 
quo dehiscunt, uniloculares, notalæ. 
Flores feminei in racemum simplicem dispositi : racemo axiliari 
aut paulisper supraaxillari, solilario, folio breviori, floribus, brac- 
teis intermixtis : bracteæ subcordatæ basi petiolatæ, apice ob- 
tuso apiculatæ, pubenli-tomentosæ, ex axilla singularum brac- 
tarum nascuntur flores 4-6, gracili pedunculo villoso suffultij 
fasciculali. 
Squamula calycina unica laleralis, pistillo bine applicata, sub- 
concava et vix hujus dimidiarn lateralem partem obtegens, externe 
pubescens, subobtusa , crassiuscula , marginibus membranacea 
tenuior, caduca. 
Squamula corollina, squamulæ calycinæ opposita, multo minor, 
obtusiuscula suberassa, glabra, caduca. 
Pistillum, parlim nudum, constans ovario ovoideo subincurvo, 
hirsutissimo uniloculari, uniovulato, ovulo subtransversali, stylo 
brevissimo vix ab apice ovarii multum incurvi dislincto glabro ; et 
stigmate terminali irifido crassiusculo. 
Fruclus pisi minimi magnitudine, cornpressus, suborbicularis, 
rugosus, pilosusque, apice, a maxima incurvatione ad basin verso, 
et cum ipsa pericarpii basi coalilo. Pericarpium tenue subcarno- 
sum.Nuxin orbem incurva subossea , unilocularis, monosperma, 
externe rugosula, et margine quasi obsolète crenata. 
Semen teres curvatum, hippocrepicum media ejus curvatura 
alfixum. 
Kpispermium tenue, membranaceurn. 
Fiidospermium carnosum, parcum. 
lanbryo in ceiilro endospermii teres, fere ejusdern lorigitudine, 
