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primis basin versiis angustala, infinia aciita, rcliqua breviter acuminata, margine ob- 

 solete crenulata, circiter ^ unciani longa, 1 linea vix latiora, sparsa , densissima, 

 sessilia , erccto - patentia, utiinque concolora , glaucescentia, glaberriraa, glandulis 

 niinimis pellucido - punctata. Stipulae nullae. Corvmbi (cyniae) in caulibus termi- 

 iiales, pauciflori, subramosi , bractcati , pedunculati. Pedunculi pedicellique teretes , 

 glabri vel vix pubcruli , erecto- patcntcs. Dractcae bracteolaeque solitariac, sparsae, 

 lineari-subulatae , pedunculis pedicellisque breviores, acuminatae , integerrimae, sub- 

 ciliolatac. Florcs parvi , bcrmapbroditi, complcti , hitei vcl alhi. Periantbium hypo- 

 g^num , 5-partitum, minutum, pcrsistens : partitiones ovatae, acutac, ciliatac, paten- 

 tissimae. Corolla 5-petaIa, h>[)ogyna, ad basin gjnophori inserta, rcgularis, peri- 

 gonio multiplo longior, decidua: pctala oblongo-elliptica vcl oblonga, vix unguicu- 

 lata, acutiuscula, integeriima, pellucidc glanduloso- punctata , plana , glaberrima, pa- 

 tentia. Stamina 10, cum petalis inserta, libera , erccta, petalis subaequalia , decidua: 

 filamenta basi valde dilatata in laminam ovatam , eglandulosam , dorso glabram, intus 

 margineque puberulam , sensim angustatam in apicem lamina lcngiorem , subulalum , 

 glabrum: antherae ovales, biloculares , supra basin affixae , introrsae, rimis 2 lon- 

 gitudinalibus dehiscentes, apice glandula minima, immersa. Ovarium solitarium, glo- 

 bosum, obtuse 5~lobum, liberum, gynophoro insertum, plerumque 3-rarius 4-io- 

 culare, glaberrimum, cglandulosum (V) , laeve: stylus intra ovarii lobos inscrtus. so- 

 litarius, filiformls, incurvus, eglandulosus, glaberrimus, deciduus: stigma terminale, 

 paullum incrassatum. G}nophorum latum, ovarii basin cingens, perianthio brevius, 

 integrum. Capsula tricocca, triloba, trilocularis, glabcrrima, scrobiculata, (glandu- 

 lis?} pellucido-punctata: cocca monosperma, apice valvis 2 elastice dehiscentia: epi- 

 carpium tenue, herbaceum , exsuccum: endocarpium chartaceum, elasticum, demum ab 

 epicarpio secedens. Semina angulo interiori coccorum inserta, a latere parun» com- 

 pressa, reniformia, sinu umbilicata, glaberrima, eglandulosa, rugulosa, albuminosa. 

 Embryo in dorso seminis, longitudinalis, homotropus, dicotyledoneus. 



Dclineavi ad specimina sicca , selengensia, a cl. Turczaninovio mecum commu- 

 nicata. — a. flos, m. auct. ; — b. stamen , m. auct. ; — c. anthera, m. auct. ; — 

 d. e. perianthia , m. auct. ; — f. pistillum, m. auct. ; — g. semcn, m. auct. ; — h. 

 idem transverse sectum , m. auct. ; — i. idem longitudinaliter sectum, m. auct.; — 

 A". capsula dehissa, m. auct. ; — /. petalum, m. auct. 



