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GALIPEA* odoratíssima. 
Sweet-scented Galipea. 
MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Diosmex R. Brown. (Introduction to the natural system 
of Botany, p. 131.) 
GALIPEA Aubl.— Calyx brevis, cupuleeformis seu turbinato-campanu- 
latus, 5-dentatus seu 5-fidus, sepiüs 5-gonus. Petala 5, rarissime 4, hypo- 
gyna, linearia, subineequalia, apice patentia, villosa seu pubescentia, inferiüs 
coalita seu adglutinata, vel rariüs conniventia in tubum sepiüs 5-gonum, 
corollamque monopetalam campanulatam referentia. Stamina sæpiùs 5, 
raro 6, 7, 8 s. 4, petalis plus minusve adheerentia vel adglutinata, quandoque 
omnia fertilia, seepiüs 2-4 castrata : filamenta seepiús complanata barbataque : 
anthere lineares, 2-loculares, oblonge, longitrorsüm interne dehiscentes. 
Nectarium cupuleforme, glabrum, ovaria cingens. Ovaria 5, rarissimé 4, 
3-gona, seep gynophoro brevissimo interposito basi hinc affixa, omnind 
libera vel angulo centrali plus minusve coheerentia, 1-locularia, 2-sperma : 
ovulum superius ascendens, inferius suspensum, utrumque angulo interno 
affixum. Styli 5, rard plane distincti aut omnino coaliti, seepiús basi liberi, 
moxque in unum coaliti. Stigmata 5, completa, vel rariüs unum 5-partitum. 
Cocca 1-2, ceteris abortivis, angulo centrali 2-valvia ; endocarpio crustaceo, 
separabili, itemque 2-valvi. Semen abortione unicum. Integumentum co- 
riaceum ; umbilicus marginalis. Perispermum nullum. Embryo curvatus : 
cotyledones magne, corrugate, infra collum 2-auriculatee, uná exteriore 
alterum involvente valde corrugatum ; radiculee auriculis longitudine : radi- 
cula brevis, teres, obtusa, in-cotyledonem interiorem medium incurva, cum 
eüdem involuta, umbilicumque attingens. (Fructum in G. heterophylla et 
G. Fontanesianá, semen in G. Fontanesianá observavi.) —— Frutices vel 
rariàs arbores. Folia exstipulata, alterna, punctato-pellucida, rarissime 
punctis glandulosis exterioribus conspersa, ternata, rariüs quaternata seu qur- 
nata, sepe simplicia, petiolo tunc infra apicem incrassato-geniculato. Flores 
axillares vel extra-axillares, rariüsve terminales, sepiàs racemos, rarissime 
corymbosi vel panieulati. Preefloratio quincuncialis (Dec.). Auguste de 
St. Hilaire, Histoire des plantes les plus remarquables du Brésil, p. 130. 
G. odoratissima ; foliis obovatis utrinque obtusis brevé petiolatis, spicis bre- 
vissimis axillaribus multifloris subsessilibus, staminibus quinque omnibus 
fertilibus. 
* Aublet, with whom this name originated, does not explain its 
meaning. 
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