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nusve abrupte (saepe recurvato-) acuminatis, sparse pellucido- 
punctatis; paniculis ex axillis foliorum novellorum iisque 
brevioribus; germine pilis adpressis dense villso, 2-I0- 
culari. 
Descriptio: Rami teretes glabrati, novelli internodiis 
compressis pilis adpressis hirti. Folia annua, rarius biennia, 
opposita, petiolata petiolo semitereti, supra canaliculato, 
pilis adpressis hirto (c. 5 mm. lg.), lamina papyracea, sparse 
pellucido-punctata, elliptico-oblonga (c. 2,7—8 ctm. lg. et 
c. 1,2—3 ctm. It.), basi obtusa vel acuta, apice plus mi- 
nusve abrupte acuminata, acumine obtuso saepe plus mi- 
nusve recurvato, supra glabra vel novella pilis adpressis 
sparsissimis parce pilosa, nervo medio impresso in novellis 
pilis adpressis piloso, venis lateralibus utroque latere cir¬ 
citer 16—18 patenti-patentissimissis cum nervo marginali 
interna (exteriore margini proxima minus conspicua) venu¬ 
lisque reticulatis interjectis elevatis, subtus multo pallidiora 
paene glabra vel pilis adpressis sparsissimis pilosa, nervo 
medio prominente, pilis adpressis piloso, venis lateralibus, 
marginalibus venulisque interjectis minus elevatis. Inflore¬ 
scendae ex axillis foliorum novellorum, folio fulcrante bre¬ 
viores, pedunculatae pedunculo tereti-applanato pilis ad¬ 
pressis piloso (c. 1,5 ctm., rarissime 7 mm. lg.), compositae: 
primi ordinis racemiformes flore terminali, secundi ordinis 
(paria 3 — 5) pseudodichasia vel dichasia triflora vel su¬ 
perne dichasia biflora vel saepe uniflora vel rarius omnia 
uniflora, pedunculis applanatis pilis adpressis pilosis (in¬ 
fimis c. 6 mm. lg., supremis 1 — i 1 /, mm. lg.), tertii ordinis 
dichasia uniflora pedunculis applanatis pilis adpressis pilosis 
(c. 1—2 mm. lg.). Bracteae bracteolaeque delapsae. Ala¬ 
bastra globoso-turbinata (c. 3 mm. lg.). Flores sessiles. 
Sepala a basi latissime cuneata late rotundato-triangularia, 
exteriora apice plus minusve apiculata, utroque latere pilis 
adpressis parce pilosa. Petala late ovalia vel obovata 
inaequalia (c. 5 mm. lg. et 2Y 2 — 3 3 / 4 mm. It.), concava huc 
illuc praesertim apice irregulariter dentata, extrorsum pilis 
adpressis pilosa, introrsum glabra. Stamina plurima (c. 6 mm. 
