204 PENTANDRIA. TKIGYNlAi 



293. STAPHYLEA. L. 



Calix 5-parted, coloured. Petals 5, inserted 

 upon the margin of a pentanglar glandulous 

 disk. Capsules 2 or 3; inflated, growing toge- 

 ther. JW5 about 2, globose with a cicatrice. 



Small trees, with opposite stipulated leaves; which are 

 ternate or unequally pinnated, each leaflet furnished with 

 a stipule; flowers racemose, terminal. 



Sfectes. 1. S. trifoUa. Obs. Filaments of the stami- 

 na pubescent. Ger.n S-celled, cells many-seeded, but by 

 abortion perfecting cnly 2 or 3 seeds. 



Ot tills genus there is 1 species in the West Indies,! 

 in the Andes of Peru, and 1 in Eurupe. 



294. TURNERA. L, 



Calix 5-cleff, funnel form, usually bibracteate 

 at the base. Petals 5, ungiiiculate, inserted 

 upon the calix. tSligmata many-cleft. Capsule 

 1 -celled, 3-valvcd. 



Suftruticose or lierbaceous; leaves alternate, petiole in 

 some species bij^landulous; flowers axillary or seated 

 upon the petiole, solitary; in 2 species the flowers are 

 racemose. 



Species. 1. T. ciatoides. Near Savannah in Georg-ia? 

 l?ursh. 



'I'his genus, except the above species, is exclusively 

 confined to tropical America. 



£95. SAROTHRA. Lamarck, 



Calix 5-parted, connivent. Petals 5, linear- 

 oblong. Capsule obhmg, acute, coloured, 1- 

 celled, 3-valved, margin of the valves semini- 

 ferous. 



A small plant with the inflorescence of an Hypencmn, 

 much branched, branches erect and subtrlchotomous; 

 leaves scarcely visible, linear; flowers solitary, axillary 

 and terminal, sessile. — Peculiar to North America. 



Species. l.S. Ili/pericoides. {Hypericum Sarothva.M\ch. 

 and Pursli, 2. p. 378.) The stamina vary from 5 to 6. 

 As this plant is closely allied to Ili/periaim, and scarcely 

 in any respect like a Gentian, 1 see no reason why it 



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