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Tribe 3. Salsamineas. Leaves simple. Flowers irregiilan Sepals 

 usually coloured, the posticous spurred. Stamens 5, very short. Anthers 



lateral petals connate in pairs. Fruit capsular 8. Impatiens. 



Uteral petals free. Drupe fleshy 9. HyDROCERA. 



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. rerennial glandular herbs. Leaves stipulate, pinnatisect. Flowers regu- 

 jar, racemose or panicled. Sej)als 5, imbricate. Fetals 5, hypogyiious, 

 "noncate, alternating with 5 glands. Stamens 10, all bearing anthers, fila- 

 nients united into a ring at the base. Ovary deeply 5-lubed, 5-celled ; styles 

 ^tinct, arising from the bases of the lobes, connate into a cai»itate stigma; 

 ^ules solitary in the cells, pendulous from below the top of the cell. Ripe 

 ?m tf ^^P^^'J-^^^^o from a persistent 5-lobed axis, indehiscent, crustaceons, 

 wrinlcled. Seeds incurved on one side of the fleshy albumen ; embryo 

 wcued, cotyledons thick.— Distrib. Several species, natives of Asia, Siberia, 

 J^reece, the Altai Mountains, and Tibet. " 



loK* *' ^^*^***f ^^^^^>. ^ Spack. HI. PL Or. ii. 109 ; leaves pinnatisect 

 uoes pinnatifid, stipules adnate laciniate, bracts oblong or obovate lobed, 

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Qv**^^'^^^ ESTEux Tibet and Kunawar alt. 14-17,000 ft., JacquemovU &c. 

 of I ^^'^^'P^b^scent. ^Rootstocl's densely tuftetl, branched, tuberous, giving off crowns 

 fcmn, ^■^'*^ ^^*^*'* simple flowerinir stems a few inches high. Leava^ linear, with 

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elliutin nk] ^^' ^\^"^-' yellow ; pedicels equalling the calyx, 2-bractcolate. Sepah 



nearly orbicular. Filaments 'h^xry. Stt/Ies shndw. 



lobed leaflets: stem leaves small. Flowcra 



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8 bvr ^^*'*^**®- ^'^««"'?-s solitary or uinbelled. Sepal 

 b^arin ^^yj^ous, imbricate, alternate with 6 small glands Stamens 15, all 

 Oio ' ,? f ^^"ers, shortly monadelphous, 5 of them opposite tlie petals, 

 bran?! • ^^^^ 5-celled, beaked ; beak ending in the style, bearing 5 linear 

 ••^^ues inwardly stigmatose ; ovules 2, superposed in each cell. Capsule 



vliicli ^^^ ^°"^ ^^''^^^ ^f 5 1-seeded carpels ; carpels with 5 elastic tails 

 exalhn ^-^ bearded on the inner side, and separate from the beak. Seeds 

 Oistrt?"q"^' embryo incumbent on the convolutely folded cotyledons.— 

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ovate f.. ^®^eg:alensis, GuUl <L- Perr. Ft. Smegamh. 1 131 ; viscid, leaves 

 Setose rf ?u .*e' peduncles rarely 2-flowered, beak of carpels very long 

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