10 ^... 1 RANUNCULACEJE. [ Helleborea. 
pinnatisecta e gemma terminali squamosa primo vere erumpentia. Flores parvi, atropur- 
purei, sepe polygami. Stamina brevia. 
Species uniea, Boreali-Amerieana. DC. Prod. i. 66. Walp. Ann. ii. 14. T Gray, Gen. Ill. t. M. 
Tarsus V. PuEoNIEX. j 
30. Peeonia, Linn. Gen. 678.—Sepala 5, herbacea, persistentia, Petala 5—10, conspicua, 
lata, efoveolata. Carpella 2-5, multiovulata, disco carnoso cincta, maturitate coriacea, : 
follieulatim dehiscentia. Semina magna, albumine carnoso.—llerb» caudice radiciformi 
perennes, y. caulis ramosus plus minus lignosus. Folia alterna, ampla, pinnatim dissecta 
v. decomposita. Flores speciosi, purpurei, albi v. rubri. 
Species apud auctores presertim hortulanos sat numerose, verisimiliter ad 4 v. 5 reducend:; 2 
(v. 3)in Europa v. Asia temperata, tertia in America boreali-oceidentali ereseunt; quarta Chinensis 
(sect. Movrax, DC., gen. Lindl.), a exteris paullulum differt caule frutescente et disco magis Eos 
—JQ. Prod. i. 60. Walp. Rep.i. 61; ii. 746; v. 7: 4mm.i.14; ii. 14; iv. 31.  Reichh. Ic. Fl. 
Germ. iv. £. 122 ad 128. 
Ongpo Il. DILLENIACEZ. 
Endl. Gen. 839; Lindl. Veg. Kingd. 423. 
Sepala 5, rarius 3-4 v. oo, valde imbricata, persistentia. Petala D v. pauciora, valde im- 
bricata, scepe corrugata, decidua. Stamina oo, rarius definita, 10 y. pauciora, hypogyna (in 
Crossosomate perigyna), libera v. basi varie coalita. 4mZhere innate, loculis rimis laterali- 
bus v. introrsum v. poris apicalibus dehiscentibus. —Gynecium liberum, e carpellis 1—o dis- 
tinctis v. rarius in centro floris cohzrentibus compositum.  Ovula 1l-co, anatropa, a basi 
erecta v. angulo interiori biseriatim affixa et ascendentia, raphe ventrali. /Styi discreti, 
terminales v. subdorsales, divergentes, stigmate simplici terminati. Carpella nunc intus v. 
dorso dehiscentia, nune crustacea v. baccata et indehiscentia. Semina l v. pauca, crassa, 
arillata (excepta JD:Ulenia), testa crustacea, raphe brevi. .4/bumen carnosum. Embryo 
minutus, hilo proximus. 
Arbores, frutices, nune scandentes, v. rarius herb:ze suffruticesve. Folia alterna, integra 
v. dentata, rarissime pinnatifida v. trifida. Stipule v. O v. petioli adnatse alzformes et cito 
decidus. Inflorescentia varia. Flores ssepius lutei v. albi, hermaphroditi v. polygami, 
rarius dioici. 
Species ad 180, plereque inter tropieos utriusque orbis v. in Australia vigentes, perpaues in 
America boreali v. Asia orientali extratropica repertze. 
Dilleniaceze Zanunculaceis proxime differunt (paucis exceptis) habitu, calyce persistente, seminibus 
arillatis ; a Magnoliaceis imprimis petalis 1-serialibus distinguuntur; cum Zernsíraiaceis, a quibus 
longius recedunt gynecio apocarpo seminibus aliisque notis, arcte tamen connex: sunt per Dil- 
leniam et Actinidiam. 
FORMJE ABNORMES. 
Caulis herbaceus est in Acroéremate, Hibbertiisque perpaucis. 
Folia pinnatifida in Acrotremate, opposita in Hibbertiis Madagascariensibus. 
Stamina definita in Pachynemate et Adrastea, pauca in Hibberiiis nonnullis, alte —€ in 
Candollea, perigyna in Crossosomate. Anthers dorso affixz in Crossosomate. 
Carpella intus plus minus eoalita v. cohzerentia in Curatella, Acrotremate, Dillenia, Reifferschiedia, 
Hibbertiisque nonnullis. 
Semina exarillata in Dillenia. 
CONSPECTUS GENERUM. 
"Tribus I. Delimeee. Staminum filamenta apice plus minus dilatata. Antherz podoes loculis 
divergentibus v. rarius parallelis. Folia parallele pennivenia, sepe scabra. 
l. EurPEDOcrza. Sepala oo, imbrieata. Panicula terminalis.— Zrasilia. 
