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IV. Description of a new Genus o/'Linese. By Charles C. Babington, Esq., 



M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S. 



Read January 1 9th, 1841. 



A HE addition of a new genus to the small order Linece, and one which tends 

 to establish more fully the relationship of that family to Malvaceae, cannot 

 but be considered as an interesting circumstance. Our plant approaches 

 Malvaceae by its perfectly closed indehiscent single-seeded carpels, the coats 

 of which are peculiarly thick and hard ; and there is also an apparent ten- 

 dency to that imperfect gynobasic structure which exists in Malvaceae. It 

 differs from the usual structure of Linece by having petals which are imbri- 

 cated, not twisted, in aestivation, and not unguiculate, although slightly atte- 

 nuated below ; and by the remarkably thick coats of its one-seeded perfectly 

 closed carpels, which do not open even when the capsule falls to pieces for the 

 purpose of disseminating the seed. 



Cliococca. 



Char. Essent. Sepala 5, Integra. Petala 5, in aestivatione imbricata. Stamina 5. Cap- 

 sula 10-locularis; loculis clausis, indehiscentibus. 



Char. Gen. Sepala 5, rarissime 4, ad ^ partem coalita, integra, persistentia, in anthesi 

 erecto-patentia, per aestivationem imbricata, cum pedunculo continua, aequalia vel inae- 

 qualia, 2 exteriora. Petala 5, sepalis alterna, oblonga, vix basi attenuata nee unguicu- 

 lata, decidua, in aestivatione imbricata. Stamina 5, petalis alterna et breviora, aequa- 

 lia, angulis ovarii proniinentibus opposita ; filamenta subulata, basi ovata, in annulum 

 hypogynum connata, dentibus totidem brevibus interjectis; antherae cordato-ovatae, 

 biloculares. Ovarium angulis 5 rotundatis, basi et apice truncatum, apiculatum ; de- 

 cem-loculare, septis infra verticem desinentibus ; loculis uniovulatis, binis connexis. 

 Styli 5, staminibu^ breviores, angulis ovarii prominentibus alterni, omnino distincti, 

 filiformes ; stigmata capitata. Capsula subglobosa, basi et apice truncata, 10-locularis : 

 loculis distinctis, clausis, dorso sulcatis, binis intiis connexis, indehiscentibus, mono- 

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