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bifaria, magnitudine pro setate et statione plus minus umbrosa perquam discre-
pantia, 3 ad 10 poll, longa, i-plus 3 poll, lata, oblonga, plerumque longissime
et obtusiuscule acuminata, basi obtusiuscula vel obtusa et inaequaliter subcor-
data, ad externum baseos latus paullo longius protracta, plana, coriacea,
rigidiuscula, supra secus longitudinem costae pube demum prorsus evanida
yestita, ceterum glabra yixque nitentia, yenis simplicissimis immersis in pagina
inferiore canescente-yiridi subreticulatis et pariter ac costa eleyatis tomento-
sisque.
Pedtjnculi axillares, solitarii, s-f unc. longi, cernui, teretes, sursum quidpiam
crassiores, inf erne prope basin bracteolis aliquot minutis obtusis stipati, etbaud
secus, atque hae et calyx extra, fusco-subsericei.Zacmzb? profunde tripartiti
oyatae, obtusiusculae, patentes, persistentes. Petala crassa, albentiayel luteola,
intus conyexiuscula, extra concayiuscula ac subsericea, yix acuta : externa tria
magis patentia ovata; interiora parum longiora, sed angustiora, oblonga, breyi
post anthesin incuryata, demum patentia.
Stamina extrinsecus in toro elevato crasso cylindraceo-hemispkaerico dense
congesta, lineari-clayata, subcomplanata, latere interno costa arguta yersus
connexivum dilatatum oblique truncatum ambitu angulatum escendente,.extrinsecus
anthera didyma fere usque ad basin staminis pertingente (cujus loculi
externi internis paullo magis elongati sunt), glabra, inferiora breyiora, quam
superiora ovariis magis approximata.
Ovaria numerosisissima, oblonga, subtrigona, sericea, unilocularia, ovulis 2
oyalibus parietinis (quorum unum assurgens, alterum dependens). Stigmata
sessilia, crassissima, subglobosa vel obconica, extra plerumque magis incrassata,
confertim puberula, admodum glutinosa, omnia in discum plano-convexum ag-
glutinata, ab apice ovarii articulatim sese solventia.
Carpella 20-3o, abortu pauciora, circa torum globosum umbellata, magnitudine
pisi majoris, superne mucrone parvo compresso apiculata, in medio quan-
doque subconstricta, e rubicundo atro-purpurea, subbaccata, indehiscentia, pube
fugaci obducta, pedicellis spoil, longis vel paullo brevioribus, tetragonis, intus
sulco obsoleto mucronem yersus erepente exaratis. Pericarpium tenue, prope-
modum exsuccum, aromaticum, intus subsucculentum et dulciusculum.
Semina semirotunda, absque receptaculo suturae pericarpii intern as ope papillae
umbilicalis affixa, horizontaba, vel, ubi unicum adest, yersus pericarpii fundum
suboblique adhaerentia, ad marginem sulco capillari inscripta, palbde cinnamea,
foveolata. Testa spongioso-membranacea, laxiuscula, semen undique obvestiens,
at tunicae internae teneriori spadiceae processibus numerosis subulatis in albumen
sese insinuanti arctissime cohaerens. Albumen albidum, corneum, fissuris fere
centro tenus penetrantibus.
E X P L IC A T IO TABULARUM.
TAB. XXXIII.
Ramus floridus fructumque ferens.
POLTALTHIA sub cop, da t a .
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