i164 Profefor AVELLAR BROTERO’s Account of ibe 
| Perichetium et calypira in utrifque Goulet, nulla. TT 
Flores mafcult ad ramorum apices. plurimi, ad. viginti fex et. m, 
inferne pauculi inter foemineos. nonnullos, feu interdu m cum ipfis 
_alternantes, fuperioribus precociores. Anthera axillaris, feflilis, 
folitaria, obtuía, ex reniformi-cordata, primüm ex pallido-viridis, 
` feu fubrufa, demum faturate teftacea, piftilli germine valde minor, 
. unilocularis, bivalvis, (ut in Callitriche vernà) calore, non vero . 
. humiditate verticaliter dehifcens ;. valvulis zequalibus, ovato-fub- 
- cordatis, elaftice pollen ad latera vibrantibus, diaphanis, valde po- . 
rofs: grana pollinis numerofiffima, ad tercenta, fubzequalia, fub- 
- globofa, acutiufcula, lutefcentia, colore cer, folida, minime ne- 
que ficcitate neque in- aqua dehifcentia, elaftice defilientia, ad can- _ 
delz flammam a me applicata non inflammabilia.. pni 
Flores feminei: ad ramorum extremorum inferiora, aut interdum f ub 
eorum bifurcationibus permulti, fed mafculis ra numero mi- 
nores, folitarii, axillares, feffiles. Germen ovatum, fubtriangulum, 
`  obtufum, | zve, nitidum, pedicello. capillari minimo > vig confpicuo 
. adhzrens, foffulis nonnullis, punétifque tuberculofis minimis, fuc- 
. culentis, vagis inftru&um. Stylus ñullus. Stigma: rima, feu ful- 
-cus profundus in germinis bafi, qua folio incumbit, utrinque ad 
. latus pedicelli, liquore unétuofo diutiffime perfufus, indies largior, 
.perfiftens. Ovula etfi grandefa&a adultaque. sd atallo — 
| quod feró demum in vitellum. folidum convertitur. . : 
tula {ubfeffilis, pedicello minimo: capillari, non in hakor centro, 
| fed hinc verfus folium fito, impofita, trigona, feu conico-tricocca, 
obtufa, bafi hinc verfus folium emarginata, ex pallido-viridis, uni- 
locularis, quadrivalvis, elaftice per futuram finüs inter femen fupe- 
rius et aliud oppofitum rachi incumbens lateraliter dehifcens : 
valvule diaphanz, bafi coalite, (ad. microfcopium porofe, papil- 
^ bofe) due majores concavo-convexz, margine revolüto, ovate, 
LAE O , 'obtufz, 
