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DRAWING 44 REVERSO.

Artist: A. Poiret. Del.

Notes by Charles Gaudichaud Beaupré.

THYMELEAE. Jussieu.

Dais, L.

DAIS COCCINEA. Pl. 44.

D. foliis oppositis, elliptico-oblongis, acutis, basi rotundatis, reticulato-venosis, nervo venisque primariis subtùs prominentibus, membranaceis, glabris, suprà nitidis, subtùs pallidioribus ; floribus glabris, decandris, coccineis ; fructibus 1-2- locularibus. 1-2-spermis.

In insulis Moluccis. (Rawak).

MOLUCAS ISLANDS.

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