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DICOTYLEDONES 



ejus sinubiis aut summo lubo, pauUo infra sinus, inserta: lilamcnla 

 filiformia, bievia, perraro nuUa: antherae s-loculares, ereclae, in- 

 trorsae , saepe apiculatae : loculis ovalibus oblongisve , juxta longi- 

 Uidinem rima dehiscentibus. Ovarium 2-loculare. Ovula in loculis 

 bina, coUatcralia, erecta, anatropa, axi centrali, prope basim dis- 

 sepimenti , inserta. Styli 2, liberi , raro in unicum coalili: stigmata 

 linearia , lineari-clavata aut capitata. Fructus capsula subglobosa 

 obovatave, membranacea, 2-locularis, apice (in digynis) inter stylorum 

 originem, propter lamellas supernae dissepimenti axeos partis invicem 

 secedenles, oslio, bians, caetero vel prope basim circumscisse , vel 

 irregulariter ad ipsum apicem dehiscens. Semina in loculis, raro, 

 abortu, solitaria, saepc bina, erecta, nunc subglobosa, ventre trigona, 

 dorso convexa, nunc , rarius, compresso-subdiscoidea , rostrata aut 

 erostria , juniora viridia , matura olivacea , rufo-fusca aut helvola. 

 Integumentum seminum triplex, extimum membranaceum , tenue, tu- 

 bercidoso-punctatum, intermedio arcte adhaerens, mox squamelloso- 

 foveolatum aut reticulatum : intermedium demum subcoriaceum aut 

 corneum: inlimum pellucido-membranaceum, albumine, embryonem 

 fovenle, farctum. Albumen carnoso-mucilaginosum. Embryo acotyle- 

 doneus, filiformis, in spiram convolutus aut cochleatus: radicula in- 

 crassata, infera. — Ilcrbae longe filiformes aut funiculiformes, aphyllae, 

 raro sparsim squamuligerae, germinatione in terra primum radicantes, 

 moxque, emortua radicula, se se ad herbas aut frutices mvdtifariam 

 involventcs , iisdem ope papillarum (haustoria DG. Theor. elemt. ) 

 ccllulo-vascularium, scutellaeformium (Guett. Mem. adher. Cuscut. 

 in Ilist. acad. Paris (1748) p- 170) se conncctentes , succum haurientes 

 exitiumque affcrentes. 



Flores hermaphroditi, breviter pediccllati aut sessiles, bractca ad 

 basim stipati aut nudi, in glomerulos, spicas aut corymbulos laterales, 

 basi unibracteatos, dispositi: infimi, ad glomerulorum praesertim basim, 

 interdum abortivi bracteolasque squamaeformcs acmulantes. Corollae 

 albae, luteae aut roseae. 



