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("ula, simplici seric, instar anniili c^^lindrici, adnalac, lincari-oldonf^ao, 

 rectae, extrorsae, bilocnlares, locnlis parallelis, riinn lonyilndinali 

 dehiscenfibns. - Foeni. Calix maiis: tnbo, infcrnc, ovario connato: 

 snpra ovarium, lamcllis inter cjus parietcs ct stylnm cohnnnarem 

 centralem projeCtis , tri-pluri-ccilari : glandnla, in singulis cellis , 

 slvli basi adnala: lindjo, pariter ac in marc, prorundc .i-8-lobo. 

 Ovarium globoso-cllipticum, i-loculare, succo viscoso raretum. Pla- 

 centae O-i/j, ex ovarii vertice ad ejus fere basim perlingcntes, sin- 

 gulac, cx angusta e parietibus origine, utrinqne abeuntes in la- 

 mcllam membranaceam , tenuem, planam, ovarii ipsius parietibus 

 adpressam, non baercntcm. Ovula lamellac cuiquc placcnlariae in- 

 sidcntia, plurima, ovalia, pcrcxigua , orthotropa. Styhis terminalis, 

 cohnnnaris, crassns, tubi calicini faucem snpcrans: stigmate subglo- 

 boso, stelIato-6-i 4-costato, papillnlis obsito. Fructus, bacca subglo- 

 bosa, flore marcescente coronata, sncco, mox concrcto, farcta , i- 

 locularis, indebisccns aut irregulariter rumpens, polysperma. Se- 

 mina albuminosa: integumento duplici, membranaceo, extimo opaco. 

 Embryo, c ccllnlis homogencis, subglobosus. — Herbae speciosae. 

 Caules carnosi, squamis imbricalis, coloratis^ omnino obsiti. Flores 

 crasse breviterqnc stipitati, ochroleuci, lutei aut lubentes, singuli, 

 circa summos cauies, ad squamarum superiorum axiiias, bracteoia 

 saepe, utrinquc, ad basim, stipati. 



1074. CYTINDS HYPOCISTIS 



C. monoicus-, calicis iimbo 3-5-lobo; stigmate steilato-^-S-costato. 



Cydnus Hypocistis Lin>.. Syst. nat. (ed. 12.) 2. p. 602. Fasan. Osserv. in Att. 

 Accad. R. nap. (1788) i. p. 236. Salis-Marschl. Aufzahl. der in Korsik in 

 Bot. zeit. (i834) p- 8. VVebb et Berthel. Phyt canar. (sect. 3.) p. 429. Desf.! 

 Fl. atl. ■?.. p. 326. C. KocH Beitr. Fl. orient. in Linn. journ. (iS^g) 22. p. 619. 

 SiBTH. et Sm. FI. graec. Prod. 2. p. 224* et Fl. graec. 10. p. 29. Margot et 

 Reut. F1. Zant. p. 8i. Chaub. et Bory Exped. Mor. p. 267. Guss. Fl. sic. Syn. 

 1. p. 619. Tenor. Fl. neap. Syll. p- 478- et F!. nap. 5. p. 271. Sebast. etMAUR. 

 Fl. rom. Prod. p. 332. Moris et De-Not. F1. Caprar. p. 1 17. Savi F1. pis. j. 

 p. 442. Savi Petr. F1. gorgon. p. 32. De-Not. Repert. Fl. hgust. p. 358 

 All. F1. ped. 2. p. 21 4- {etsi specimma, nostratis plantae, in Herbario niUla). 

 rol. III. 56* 



