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EXÜC110RUA GRANDIFLORA Lindi., Gard, Cliro ii. 1858, p. !)25. — I k n tli . e t Hook., Gen. p la n i. 1. p a rs 1!, p. 01-2
Heriiic([ llu r t. E r a n o . 1867, p. 2.50, tal). 8. — B a d i. I l i s l . tie s pi. !, p. -178.
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A m ELANCUIKU IIACKMÜSA R . FoiT. Mss.
Frutex cultus 2-3 metralis et ultra, ramosus, caule coriice cinerascentc ili laiuellas
tenues annuas diviso vestito; ramis patentibusv. diflusis, cortice tenui cinereo tectis, novellis
herbaceis glabris.
Foliis alternis, simiilicibus, tenuibus, pctiolalis, oblongis v. oblongo-Ianceolatis, basi et
apice obtusis v. in petioluni attenuatis, integris v. paucidentatis, et sæpe mucronatis, supra
viridibus, subtus glaucescenlibus; stipulis minutis adpressis, apiculatis, caducis.
Floi'ibuspolygaino-dioicis aul polygamo-nionoicis, ad aiucem ramulorum in racemos siiii-
plieesmultilloros dispositis v. inlerdumgeminis, bracteis minutis, caducis, stipalis; calycino
tubo turbinato, v. ad medium constricto, disco glanduloso crassiusculo inlrorsum vestilo basi
bibractcolalo, laciniis 4-5, suborbicularibus, submembranaceis, margine denliculalis, albidis;
petalis 5, rarius 4, 1 cent, diametr., suborbicularibus, lircviler unguiculalis, calycis fauci
insertis, patulis, albis, tubo insertis ; staminibus 15, summo caiycis tcrnatim pctalis oppositis,
lilamcntis subulatis, incurvatis, antlieris globosis, inlrorsum birimosis; carpellis in floribus
masculis nullis v. abbrevialis, in femincis vero 5, coadunatis, calycem superantibus, glabris,
slylis brevibus, erectis, apice in stigmata subglobosa incrassatis ; ovulis 2 , geminis,
pendulis.
Fruclibus ossco-lignosis, pentagonis, carpidiis compressis, loculis bipartitis, secus al:e
apiccm intra dehiscentibus, 1-2 spermis.
Seminibus compressis alalisque, pendulis, cmbryono cxalbuniinoso, cotyledonibus
planis, radicula supera.
Hab. in China boreale ; 11. Fortune Mss.