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* SCHWEIGGERIA pauciflora. 
Few-flowered Prong-violet. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. VioLAcEz. 
SCHWEIGGERLIA. Spreng. Calyx profunde quinquepartitus, laciniis 
valde inzequalibus, tribus posticis multo majoribus, hastato-cordatis, in pe- 
dunculum subdecurrentibus, duobus anticis minimis, angustis. Corolle pe- 
tala 5, imo calyci inserta, valde inzequalia, persistentia, antica lateralibus 
breviora, posticum maximum, basi calcaratum. Stamina 5, subperigyna, pe- 
talis alterna, ineequalia; filamenta brevissima, anthere introrse, biloculares, 
complanatze, adnatz, apice in appendicem membranaceum producte, loculis 
longitudinaliter dehiscentibus, duarum anticarum connectivis in appendices 
subulatas, liberas, intra calcar reconditas productis. | Ovarium subglobosum, 
uniloculare, placentis parietalibus tribus. Ovula plurima, anatropa. Stylus 
terminalis, clavato-dilatatus, incurvus, apice trilobus, lobis intus stigmatosis. 
Capsula ovata, perigonio et genitalibus emarcidis tecta, unilocularis, trivalvis, 
valvis medio seminiferis. Semina plurima, ovato-subglobosa, testa erustacea, 
thaphe lineari elevata, ab umbilico prope basim sublaterali minute caruncu- 
lato ad chalazam terminalem producta. Embryo in axi albuminis carnosi or- 
thotropus, ejusdem longitudine, radicula umbilico proxima, centrifuga.—— 
Frutices brasiliensis; foliis alternis, ovatis v. lanceolatis, denticulatis, stipulis 
lateralibus, geminis, minutis, pedunculis axillaribus, solitartis, unifloris, superne 
bibracteatis, supra bracteas articulatis. Endlicher genera, no. 5044. 
S. paueiflora; foliis e basi longé attenuata obovatis spathulatis obtusis cre- 
nato-serratis, pedunculis axillaribus (labello lineis duabus elevatis glan- 
dulosis). Martius nov. gen. § sp. pl. 1. p. 23; sub Glossarrhene. 
Glossarhen pauciflorus. DeCand. prodr. 1. 291. 
Frutex parvus, erectus, glaber ; ramulis compressis, lined elevatd alatd a 
basi foliorum utrinque decurrente. Folia oblonga v. obovata, in petiolum an- 
gustata, crenaturis glandulosis ; utrinque stipuld squamaformi, stipata. Pedi- 
celli axillares, pubescentes, bracteolati, nunc bracteolarum loco Soliosi ; brac- 
teolis basi et apice utrinque glandulosis. Sepala 5, basi haud producta ; 
quorum dorsale ovatum undulatum, pallide virens, anterioribus omnino albis 
paulo majore; duo interiora minima, alba, apice tridentata ; dente intermedio 
elongato glanduloso. Petalorum alborum inferius maximum, calearatum, cune- 
atum, bilobum, lineis duabus elevatis glandulosis luteis pone basim. Stamina 
sessilia, libera; antherarum appendice terminali rotundatd, membranaced, an- 
teriorum dorsali filiformi apice involutd. Stigmatis trilobi laciniis lateralibus 
lanceolatis ascendentibus, intermedid obsoletd dentiformi. ; 
* So named after Professor Schweigger, one of the authors of a Flora 
of Erlangen. 
