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Tiliacearum et Rosacearum genera Juss. 





Calyx 4-5-phjllus aut profunde 4-7-partitus, coloratus, persistens aut 

 cleciduus. Pracfloratio imbricativa ; valvata in Abatia; subvalvata iri 

 Patrisia. 



Corolla scepissimc nulla. Petala quinquc, foliolis caljcinis simillima, 

 in Bixa Orellana Linn. ct Lsctia completa Jaccj. 



Stamina numero indeterminata ; in generibus disco destitutis, sub ovario 

 inserta aut fundo caljcis discoideo imposita; in Patrisia sub disco, et in 

 Ludia ccntro ipsius disci inserta. Filamenta libera; in Abatia : exteriora 

 antheris destituta. Anther^: biloculares. 



Ovarium superum, sessile, uniloculare. Ovula 6 aut plura, placentis 

 1-7 parietalibus imposita. Stylus 1, indivisus aut 2-4-fidus. 



Discus saepius nullus, nisi fundum discoideum calycis (in Prockia, 

 Banara et Bixa) pro eo sumas. Patrisia et Ludia disco manifesto instructse. 

 Uiscus in bac magnus, orbicularis, fundo caljcis adnatus., centro sta- 

 minifer, margine undulato-crenatus; in illa urceolatus et basi exteriore 



staminifer. 



Fructus capsularis vel baccatus, unilocularis, polyspermus. Placentse 



parietales 1-7. 



Semina ssepe membrana carnosa (arillo?) involuta '. 



Integumentum duplex; exterius in Bixa et Ludia crassum et corneum, 

 in Prockia crustaceum et fragile; interius membranaceum, chalaza 

 notatum. 



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1 Scmina Banarx, LaHix, Abatix ct Patrisix a me haud visaj ea Ludix et Prockia;, qua: examinavi, noncluin satis matura. 





