10-4 Frasera Walteri. 
orbiculata, convexo-protuberans et eleganter barbata in parte laciniarum me- 
dia. Stam. 4, corolla breviora eique alterna, filamenta subulata; anthere 
subovate-oblonge, inferne subsemibifide, demum reflexe. Pist. ovarium ob- 
longo-ovatum, compressum, sensim desinens in stylum ipsius circiter longitu- 
dine: stigmata 2, crassa, glandulosa, divergentia. Caps. majuscula, ovalis, 
yalde compressa, ambitu submarginata, subcartilaginea, rudimento styli mu- 
cronata; 1-locularis, margine 2-valvis. Semina pauca, (8-12) elliptica, plano- 
compressa, membranaceo-marginata; ad latera utriusque suture immediate 
longitudinaliter per marginem alterum ita adnexa, ut sibi invicem imbricatim 
incumbant. 
Obs. Genus gentianeum ; fructu fere Menyanruis Vymphoidis. 
| Mich. Flor. Boreali-Amer. p. 96. 
Calix deeply 4-parted. Corolia 4-parted, spreading ; segments oval, with a bearded 
orbicular gland in the middle of each. Capsule compressed, partly marginated, 
: i-celled. Seeds few, (8 to 12) imbricated, large, elliptic, with a membra- 
naceous margin. 
SYNONYMA. 
Frasera Carolinensis. Walter. 
Frasera officinalis. Bart. Fl. Virg. 
_ Frasera verticillata. Drake, and others. 
PHARM. 
Fraserz Walteri. Radix. he root. 
