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Ca/yx campanulatus, 5-fidus rariiis 5-ph^llus^ aequalis. 

 Corolla basi tubulosa^ supern^ ampliata, campanulafa : Km- 



bus 5-Iobus, subbilabiatus : loins rotundafis^ in sestivatione 



imbricatis. - r 



Stamina 4, didynama, quorum 2 in Didymocarpo sterilia : 



filamenta glabra, fornicata: anthers nudx, biloculares. 

 Ovarium ensirorme. Stylus filitbrmis. Stigma iDdivisum^ 



clavatum. 

 . Capsula siliquosa, compressa, bivalvis, 4-locularis: valvis 

 ^ .primim per totam loogitudinem discedentibus.^ Dissepi- 



mentum duplex^ membranaceum, seminiferum, valvulos 



constituens, fardli!ls ad commissuras dorsales v. marginales 



Solutun*. '>itni;;"-':if. IL <■-'■:■ ■ ■ ,. -:■_■■ :., / - 



Semina numerosissima, minuta, pendula, nuda s. rarii^ cau- 

 data: testa duplex; carfmor crassiuscula ; interior mem- 

 branacea, diaphana : albumen nullum. Emhyo inversus^ 

 rectus, lacteus : cotyledones breves, semiteretes, crassae : 

 radicula supera, cylindracea, crassa, cotyledonibus dupio 

 longior, oblusa. Nob, in loc. cit. 7. p. 83. (character plu- 

 rimum reCormatus). 

 Herbae (Ind, Orient,) per ermes^ tei^restres^ acaules rariiis cau- 

 • lescenteSj v, Frniices parasitici, foliis oppositis integerrimis 

 coriaceis glabris : in Herbis, foMsL plerumgue radicalia, cor- 

 data^ cretuita V, seri'atay hirsuta ; tn Caulescentibus tema, 

 Flores itmbellati^ purpurei, rosei v, rubri ; in Herbis, um- 

 bellae dichotom^j basi involucro et involucello diphyllo mu- 

 nitcB. Nob. in loc, cit. p. 84. 

 Obs. Ordo a nobis, in loco supr^ citato, jamdudum statuit, 

 ^A a Bignoniaceis facile distinguendus est: stigraatc indiviso, 

 capsulae structure, seminibus minutis (non compresso- 

 alatis), pendulis, embryone inverso, cotyledonibus semite- 

 ^ retibus radicula dnplo breyioribus; atque i^ Scrophnlari- 

 - nis verts difiert seminibus pendulis albnmine destitutis, 

 radiculd. superb, capsulae structure ac dehiscenti^. Nu- 

 perii^s Gulielmus Jack, vir clarissimns, nunc eheu ! mortc 

 abreptus^ qui dum vivens, summo cum ardore, Florae 

 Snmatranae divitia perlustrabat, plures plantas ad banc 

 familiam pertinentes in Parte priore Tom. X7F. Act, 

 Soc, Linn, sub noinine Cyrtandracearum egit Nomcn 

 Cjrtandracearum yix retinendum, quod Cyrtandra Forst.y 

 nt patet specimen autopsiae, in Herb, sua, nunc in Mus. 

 Lamb, assenrato, semina faabet erecta albumine copioso 

 instructa, baccam subrotundam corticatam, bilocularcm, 

 intilks pnlposam, septum camosnm seminiferum crassum^ 



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