560 IIOTANIQÜE. PLANTES VASCULAIRES. 
pendices, son sligmale très petit, tridenté et non pelté, son ovaire 
à trois loges l’en distinguent sufGsamment. 
PACHYANTHUS CUBENSIS , Nob, 
P. ramulis ferrugineo-tomentosisj foliis ovalibus, coriaceis, in- 
tegris, apice basique obtusis, breviler petiolatis, trinerviis, su- 
perne glabris nitidisque , subtus ferrugineo-tomentosis ; cjma 
terminali, ferrugineo-tomentosa j pedunculis trichotomis, pauci- 
florisj petalis incuinbentibus, obtusissimis, subemarginato-apicu- 
latis; filamentis glabris. 
Crescit in insula Pinorum. 
Descriptio. 
Frutex ramï teretes, cortice griseo, tomentoso tecti : 
ramuli ferrugineo-tomentosi, pilis stellatis. 
Folia in parte ramorum superiori approximata, opposita, bre- 
viter petiolata, ovalia, margine integra, apice basique obtusa, 
superne glaberrima et lucida, subtus ferrugineo-toinentosa, pilis 
stellatis, 3-nervia, 2 ad 2 1/2 pollices longa, pollicem aut sesqui- 
pollicem lata : petiolus 3-5 lineas longus, semiteres, superne vix 
canaliculatus , ferrugineo-tomentosus. 
Flores in cyma terminali, pauciflora, trichotoma dispositi; flo- 
ribus magnis, ebracteatis (sive bracteis minimis, inconspicuis), 
sæpius undecim; pedunculis tribus, apice trifloris, et floribus 
duobus in axilla pedunculorum sessilibus. 
Calyx lurbinato-campanulatus , basi cumovario coalitus, fer- 
rugineo-tomentosus : limbus supra ovarium prominulus, tubu- 
losus, 6 fidus, lobis latissimis, obtusis, vix apiculatis et margine 
subciliatis. 
Petala 6, erecta, margine valde incumbentia, unguiculata, car- 
nosa, laie obcordata et in medio subapiculata , margine tenui , 
membranacea, undulata ; unguc lato crassissimo. 
Stainina 12, œqualia, corollain vix æquanlia. Fiîamenta erecta, 
crassa , subcomplanata , apice attenuata et acuta, paulo infra 
apicem subgeniculala, glaberrima. Antheræ oblongæ, a lalere 
compressæ, paulo supra basin poslico affixæ, obtusæ, basi sub- 
