minutissime viscido-pubescens. Calyx pallide viridi-purpurascens, margine tori inCcrtus, 3 poUices longus vei plus, crcdus, tubulosus, 5-angulus latcribus concaviuiculis, fob floreicentia per angulos dnos vel tres breviter & inseqnaliter fiflus, poflea fruftu intumefctnte laepe profuiulius ufque ad bafin : lacinias ereflac, femilanceolats, integerrims:, acuminnlatas : minute vifcidulo-pu- befcens potiflimum iiitus, extus nonnihil lucidus, perfirtens. Corolla margine tori inferta, 7-8-pollices longa : Tubus pallide viridi-flavus, calyce parum brevior, verfus latus ejus inferius de- clinatus, inferne vix 3 lineas diametro, fuperne {"enfim dilatatus, 5-gonus, ad infertionem filamcntorum extus deprefliufculus : Lim- bus maxima parte albidus, tube multo longior; inferne infundi- buliformis ; mox admodum vcntricofus fauce circiter 1 pollices diametro ; dein recurvus ore fummo 4f pollices diametro, breviter 5-fidus ; per indivifam partem obfolete lo-angulus, angulis 5 ab inferioribus tubi continuatis intufque Vitta oblcure purpurea colo- ratis, 5 ab infertione filamentorum enatis multo tenuioribus in- tufque Vitta obfoletiffima. vel nulla; Lacinias extus Isete purpu- rafcentulae interftitiis bafi minute fuborbicularibus, exquilitiffime ciliatae; i extima, lemiorbicularis, repaiidula, plana; 3 interiores majores latere aitero quod sftivatione includitur dilatato incifo- crenato crilpoque ; i intima, maxima, femiorbicularis, tota ele- gantiffime crilpo-crenulata: inferne extus glabra, casterum lasvis, coriacea, decidua. Filciviifita 5, pallidiffime viridi-flava bafibus obfcure purpureis, ore tubi inferta, decurrentia, limbo circiter dimidio breviora, deorfum fecunda, incurva, approximata, fubu- lata, glabra. Anihcrce pallidiffime viridi-flavas lateribus purpureis, bafi infertas ibidemque breviter 2-fidaj, filamentis longe breviores,. creftiE, nonnihil lunulatas, 4-angulae, mucronulats, 2-locuIares: Valvx 4, 2 anteriores paulo anguftiores et rediores : lateraliter dehifcentesi poft anthefin obfcure purpureas, paulo minores, in^e-
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