62 Mr Don on the Affinities of the Empettece. 



limbo obovato concavo erose crenulato, marcescentia. Stamina 

 totidem, iisdemque alterna, hypogyna, exserta, paululum inte- 

 rius seposita, pariter marcescentia : ^/«?wew/« longiuscula, an- 

 gustissima, compressa, glabra : antherce subrotundse, biloculares, 

 subdidymae, ad medium pelta? modo filamentis impositse : locu- 

 lis ventricosis, fere omnino solutis, rima longitudinal! exterius 

 dehiscentes. Ovarii rudimentum. 

 FcEM. — Calyx maris. Petala totidem, sed breviora et vix ungui- 

 culata. Staminum rudimentis raro uUis. Pistillum : ovarium 

 globosum, sessile, disco carnoso impositum, 3, 6, v. 9-loculare, 

 ovulis solitariis ; styli 3, brevissimi, in unum corpus triangulare 

 coaliti : stigmata radiato-multifida : loins 6 v. Q, patulis, basi di- 

 latatis, subtiis percurrenti-carinatis, supra sulco perangusto ex- 

 aratis, pruinosis, apice truncatis, emarginatis v. bicorniculatis. 

 Bacca sphserica, nunc depressa, apice leviter umbilicata, basi 

 calyce persistente cincta, 2, S, 6 v. 9-pyi'ena : caro parca : m- 

 r^noe testa ossea monospermse, erectae, collaterales, elliptico-tri- 

 gonae, compressiusculae, columellas demum evanescentis angu- 

 lis numero aequalibus per totam longitudinem adnatae, dorso 

 convexo sulcato, ad apicem puncto exiguo fere perviae. Se- 

 men ovoideum, cavitati pyrenae conformis, basi chalaza tuber- 

 culiformi atro-fusca instructum : testa simplici, membranacea, 

 spadicea, reticulato-vasculari, apice puncto notata : albumen co- 

 piosissimum, densum, carnosum, aqueo-pallidum, hinc facie pla- 

 niuscula, inde convexum. Emhryo teres, erectus, axilis, lacteus, 

 albuminis fere longitudine : cotyledones semicylindricae, obtusse, 

 arete applicatae : radicula infera, recta, cylindracea, obtusa, co- 

 tyledonibus fere triplo longior. 



Frutices (utriusque orbis zonis temperatis proprii) humillimi, sem^ 

 pervirentes, facie ericoided. Folia alterna, petiolo exigui complanato 

 suffulta, margine revoluta, integerrimn, exstipulata, Flores parvi, 

 axillares soUtariiy v. terminates glomerati. 



EMPETRUM. 



Empetri sp. Linn. Juss. 



Calyx 3-phyllus, coriaceus, basi squamis 6 imbricatis munitus. 

 Petala 3. Stamina 3. Stigma 6-9-fidum, Bacca depressa, 

 6-9-pyrena. 



Fruticuli (Europ. bor. et Magellan.) ramosissimi, procumhentes. 

 Folia alternay lineari-lingulata, obtusa, supra plana, subtiis cojivexa 

 et lined membranaced exarata, atro-viridia, nitida. Flores axil- 

 lares, \olitarii, sessiles, atro-sanguinei. Baccae nigrce v. rubrce. 



Hue E. nigrum, L. et E. rubrum, Vahl. 



