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plerumque manifesta vol maxima, sessilia vol unguiculata (praecipue Lager stroemia), raro minuta 

 (Cupheae spe<., Ad en aria, JPoodfordia etc.), calyci inter lobos vel paullo inferius (Lafoensia) 

 inserla, tot quot sepala, raro pauciora ventralibus deficientibus (Cuphea) vel nomuillis inordinate 

 obsoletis (Ammanuia, Peplis), interdtini nulla (Cuphea, Ammanuia, Didiplis, Rofala); si adsnnt, 

 per aestivationem iiiflexa et plerumque valde corrugata ant minora plana, irregulariter iinbricata 

 vel distantia, teneia, pennivenia, raro nninervia, sub anthesi pleriimqiie patentia, cadtica seu 

 fugacissima, raro dintissime persistcntia (Cupheae spec., Rofala), Stamina calycis tnbo semper 

 infra petala all ins profuiidiusve, raro ipsi fere calycis basi (Pleurophora , liotalae spec, Physo- 

 calymma) inserta, ejnsdem nervis continna, 1 — 200 atque etiam plura, saltern sepalis numero 

 aeqnalia vel dnpla, raro paiiciora (RotalaJ, interdum rripla vel quadrupla (Diplusodon) vel niiiiie- 

 rosissima (Lager stroemia), binis ternis pluribusve mine sepalo nunc, petalo qnovis oppositis, 

 uniseriata -vel, dnin sepalorum numero dnpla, interdum biseriata episepalis paullo altins insertis, 

 ant alterne valde inaequalia episepalis longioribus sunt; cum sepalorum numero aeqnalia, ant 

 episepala (Ammanuia), aut epipetala sunt (Cupheae spec, Pleurophora); filamenta filiformia 

 vel subulata, inclusa vel valde exscrta, per aestivationem erecta vel in flex a, raro in spiralem 

 calyci adpressam contorta (Lafoensia) , rarissime nonnulla subobsoleta sterilia (Ammanuia); 

 anther ae dorso, rarissime basi (Pleurophora, Dodecas) affixae, rotundatae vel ellipticac, raro 

 lineares (Lafoensia), saepius post antbesin plus minus revolutae, biloculares, introrsae, margine 

 vel facie interiori longitudinaliter debiscentes. Ovarium liberum, sessile, rarius slipiti brevi in- 

 sidens, rarissime calycis ventri paullo supra basin aUixum (Pleurophora), aequale, vel obliquum 

 (Pleurophora, Cuphea), membranaceuni, basi interdum glandula dorsali (Cuphea) vel cupuliformi 

 ovariique siipitem cingeiitc (Lythrum etc) munitum, complete vel dissepimentis supra placentam 

 interruptis incomplete 2 — 6-loculare; loculamenta in floribus isomcris nunc epipetala nunc epi- 

 sepala; placentae dissepimeiito medio vel loculorum angulo centrali adnatae, interdum dissepi- 

 mentis mox obliterans tanquam placentam unicam basilarem brevissimam, semiglobosam vel 

 disciformem efformantes (Lafoensia, Physocalymma) , quae placenta insuper subbipartita semi- 

 septorum semilunarium basin conncctit in Diplusodonfe ; loculamenta raro inaequalia (Cuphea), 

 ventrali interdum angustissimo vacuoque (Pleurophora); rarissime ovarium uniloculaie placenta 

 parietali (Cryptotheca) ; ovula plerumque numerosa, raro pauca vel paucissima ( — 3 vel 2 in 

 Cuphea), ascendent ia vel bori?;ontalia, anatropa. Stylus terminalis vel ovario suboblique in- 

 sidens, tiliformis, ovario plerumque paullo brevior vel duplo — quadruplo longior, raro longissi- 

 mus (ad 14 cm. in Lafoensia), interdum siiIjiiiiIIiis (Ammanuia, Rofala etc.), plerumque per- 

 sistens; stigma punctiforme vel capitatum, interdum crassissimum (Lythrum) , raro plus minus 

 ma ni Teste bilobum (Adenaria, Cupheae spec). Fkuctus complete vel incomplete 2 — 6-locularis 

 aut dissepimentis obliterans unilocularis, membranaceus, eartilagineus, coiiaceus, corticosus, 

 calyce absconditus vel interne cinctus, rarissime demum niidus (Lafoensia), nunc loculicide, 

 nunc septicide valvis raro plus minus bilobis (Lythrum) , nunc valvis irregular ibus (JSesaea), 

 nunc circumscisse (Pemphis), nunc irregulariter subcircumscisse (Ammanuia) dehiscens, nunc 

 indebiscens (Peplis, Adenaria, Dodecas etc); placentae septorum dum adsunt angulis centrali bus 

 adnatae vel in columnam centralem persistentem liberam, cylindrical!! vel obscure 3 — 4-gonam 

 coalitae, quae coluinna in Cuphea fllis duobus (dissepimentorum rudimentis) cum styli basi con- 

 tinna, Semina plurima vel paucissima (ad 3 — 2 in Cuphea), forma diversa; testa coriacea inter- 

 dum undique in alam aequalem (Cupheae spec, Lafoensia, Diplusodon, Physocalymma), vel hinc 

 tantum in alam obliqiuin producta ( Lager stroemia), vel apice breviter appendiculata (Dodecas) 

 crassissimeve spongiosa (Lawsonia, Pemphis); semina si complanata sunt, faciem alteram raphe 

 percuri it. Embryo exalbuminosus rectus. ; cotyledoxes planae, rarissime singular! modo plicatae, 

 nempe margine altero versus dorsum, altero versus vent rem reflexae ( Lagers froemia), saepissime 



