ORDO MYRSINEAE. 



Myrsineae R. Brown Prodr. Nov. Holland. 532. (a. 1810.J. Alph. DC. in Transact. Soc. 

 Linn. Lond. XVII. 95. Endl. Gen. PI. 734. excl. Leonia. Meisn. Gen. 252. (161.^ Aug. de St. 

 Hilaire stir les Myrsinees, les Sapotees et les embryons paralleles au plan de Vombilic, in Ann. 

 des Sc. not. 2. se'r. V. 193. sqq. — Sapotis affinia genera Juss. Gen. 252. — Ophiosperma 

 Vent. Hort. Cels. 86. (a. 1800.^; nomen hand omnibus ordinis generibus adoptatum a It. 

 Brown non admissum. — Ardisiaceae Juss. Ann. de Museum XV. 350. (a. 1810.J Bartl. Ord. 

 nat. 163. — Myrsinaceae Lindl. Nat. Syst. II. 224. Vegetable Kingdom 3. edit. 647. — Myr- 

 sineaceae Alph. DC. Prodr. VIII. 75., adjectis Aegicerearum et Theophrastearum ordinibus 



Candolleanis. 



DlCOTYLEDONEAE ALTERNIFOLIAE EXSTIPULATAE D1CHLAMYDEAE REGULARES , SYMPETALAE 

 VEL DIALYPETALAE, ISOSTEMONES ; STAMIMRUS OPPOSITIPETALIS , CUM VEL ABSQUE ANDROECEO 

 STERILI, POLLIKE LAEVI , OVARIO SUPERO RARO 1NFERO UMLOCULARI , PLACENTA CENTRALI, OVULIS 



1 PLURIM1S , CAMPYLOTROPO - TURBINATIS , SPERMODERMIDE RESINOSA , ALBUMINE EMBRYONEM 



QUOAD SEMEN TRANSVERSUM INCLUDENTE, IN UNICO GENERE DEFlCIENTE. 



Flores regulares herrnaphrodki vel polygamo-dioici, pentatneri vel tetra- aut hexameri. 

 Calyx 4 — 6-fidus aut -partitus, segmentis ciliolatis vel marginibus extcnuatis, praefloratione 

 sinistrorsis vel quincuncialibus aut valvatis, persisteniibus aut serins deciduis. Corolla utplu- 

 rimam monopetala, rotata, campanulata vel tubulosa, cum calyce plerumque punctis lineolisve 

 resinoso-glandulosis notata, segmentis 4 — 6, raro 4 — 5-petaIa , praefloratione sinistrorsa aut 

 quincunciali. Appendices vel stamina sterilia nulla, aut staminum numero iisque alterna. 

 Stamina petalis opposita, filamentis brevibus cum petalis connatis, antheris erectis basi 

 emarginatis, bilocularibus , loculis rima longitudinali, raro apicc apcrtis, indivisis aut septulis 

 transverse superpositis multilocellatis, polline laevi ellipsoideo aut subgloboso. Ovarium libe- 

 rum, raro calycis tubo adnatum, glabrum, uniloculars , placenta centrali libera breviter stipi- 

 tata, peraro fere obsoleta. Ovula 1 — plurima, sub am lies i placentae ah col is immersa vel ex- 

 serta, campylotropa aut subanatropa, pleraque saepe sterilia, fertilia vulgo peltato-turbinata. 

 Stylus centralis, stigmate simplici acuto vel capitato aut sublobato, lobulis calycis segmentis 

 oppositis. Fructus : drupa aut bacca globosa endocarpio cartilagineo vel ligneo, mesocarpio car- 

 noso vel sicciore tenui, indehiscens, vel (raro) drupa follicularis denium irregulariter rumpens. 

 Semen unicum e basi concava globosum placentae strato extimo crassiore vel tenuissimo indu- 

 siatum vel placentae stipite in funiculi speciem excrescente sustentum, aut semina phira turbinata 



Myrsin. *• 



