CHORISIA. 2 q/J 



Fructus i- 3 5-aut io-loculare, i-polyspermus, capsularis aut indehis- 



cens. 



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^ Semina intcnlum lana vel pulpa obvoluta, endospermio destituta , in 



Cheirostemone (inde minime c tribu excluclendo) endospermio carnoso 



instructa. 



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Cotyledones corrugatas aut convolutae, in Cheirostemone plantc. 



Arbores, nonnunquam frutices. Pubes stellulata. Folia alterna, simplicia, 

 sacpe lobata, autdigitata. Stipulee petiolares geminae.Inflorescentia axillaris, 

 lerminalis et oppositifolia. Florcs plerumquc inaximi, speciosi. 



Bombaceae, quae, praetcrgencrasubsequentia, complectunturOchromam, 

 Adansoniam et fbrsan Guararibeam ' , Helicteri aflinem, constituunt tribum 

 (autfamiliam?) valde naturalem. nunc vero, incompleta cognitione com- 

 plurium huc relatorum generum, vix characteribus perspicuis circum- 

 scribendam. A Malvaceis , quibus proximae, distinguuntur pnesertim tubo 

 stamineo 5-muItidiviso, nec non facie peculiari; cum Biiltneriaceis, qua- 

 in diversis sectionibus diversum offerunt habitum, minime confundendse 

 sunt ob anthcras unilocularcs. 



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Characteh differentialis. 



Calyx campanulatus, basi tribracteatus, limbo 3-5-lobus, persistens. 

 Petala quinque, aequalia, elongata, patcniia. Tunus stamineus duplex; 

 mterior tenuis, elongatus, teres, apice antherifer; exterior brevis, interiori 



1 QtAiuitiBEA Auhl. (Myrodia Swartz.) CALYXtuhuloso-clavatus, persistCIU, in Q. gnyanne iu i apice bilobus, Iobis 2-3-dentatis- 



in Q. turbinata (Myrodia turbinata Sw.) irregulariter dcntatus. Prafloralio valvata. Petala 5, hypogyua, liucari-Iigulata aut 



spathulata, aqualia, calycc longiora, basim versus tubo stamiueo adnata, ante apertioncm floris marginibus incumbcntia. Stamina 



hypogyna; tubus stanjincus tcres, apiccin vcrsus antherircr; iu Q. turbinata apicc quinqucdentatus. Anthcne 28-3o, dorso affua- , 



unilocularcs, cxtcrnc rinia vcl sulco longitudinali dchisccntcs; in Q. guyannensi lincares, apici tuhi divcrsa altitudinc insidentcsj 



suhverticillatic; in Q. turbinata suhcllipticac, in apice tubi capitato- couglonicrata?. Ovaricm in Q. ru^i/m/aabbrcWalo-ovatum, 



apicc m rtylum deiinens , 'i-loculare; loculis l-sperrais, geminato-approxiniatU; disscpimento incompleto?. Ovulum lcnticularc ' 



pcudulum. Srrun 1 , filiformis; in Q. guyannensi supra uiedium lubo staniineo adkacrcm. Stigma in hac capitatum, bi-trilobum 

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