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GALIPEA* odoratissima. 

 Sweet-seen ted GaUpea. 



MONADELPIIIA PENTANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. DiosME.T- R. Brown. {Introduction to the nntural system 

 of Botanij, p. 131.) 



GALIPEA Aubl. — Cahjx brevis, cupulsofonnis seu turliinato-campanii- 

 latns, 5-dent;itiis seu .';-tidtis, stepiiis 5-g^onus. Pctala .'3, rarissinii!; 4, liypo- 

 gvna, linearia, suliiivjcqualia, apice patentia, villosa sen pubcscentia, inferius 

 coalita seu aclijhitinata, vel rarius conuivcntia in tubum s;rpiiis /)-p;orMini, 

 corollamque monopetalam canipanulatani reterentia. Stamina sa>pins 5, 

 raru G, 7, 8 s. 4,petalis pUis niiinisve adhuMcntia vel ad;jlutinata, quandoqiie 

 omnia feitilia, S8epiiis2-4 castrata : lilamenta sjEpiiiscompIanata biirl)ataquc : 

 anthei-ge lineares, 2-loculares, oblongoe, longitrorsiim interne deliiscenles. 

 Nectarium cupulfpforme, glabnim, ovaria ciiigens, Ovaria 5, rarissim^ 4, 

 3-o;ona, soepc^ gvnophoro brevissimo interposito basi hinc affixa, omnin6 

 libera vel angulo centrali phis niiuusve cohurentia, 1-locularia, 2-spcrma : 

 ovulum superius ascendens, inferius susj)ensiim, utrumque angulo interno 

 aflfixum. Slyli 5, raro plane distincti aut omnino coaliti, soppius basi liberi, 

 nioxque in unum coaliti. Stigmata 5, completa, vel rarius ununi ^-partitum. 

 Cocca 1-2, carteris abortivis, angulo centrab 2-valvia ; endocarpio crustareo, 

 separabili, itemque 2-valvi. Semen abortione unicum. Integumentum co- 

 riaceum ; umbilicus marginalis. Perispermum r\u\\\\m. Embryo corvaUis : 

 cotyledoncs magnae, coirugatcc, infra collum 2-auriculatoc, una exteriore 

 alterum involvente valde corrugatum ; radicular auriculis longitudine : radi- 

 cula brevis, teres, obtusa, in cotyiedonem interiorem niediimi incurva, cum 

 eadem involuta, umbilicumque attingens. {Fructum in G. heterophylla et 



G. Fontanesiana, semen in G. Fontanesiana obscrvavi.) Fruiices vel 



rariiis arbores. Folia exstipulatay alternu, punctato-pcllucida, rarissinid 

 pu7tctis glandidosis extcriorifjus conspersa, ternafa, rarius qnaternata scit qui- 

 nata, scepc simplicia, petiolo tunc infra apicem incrassato-geniculalo. Flores 

 axillares vel extra-axillarcs, rariinvc tcrinijtales, scepiiis raccmosi, rarissinid 

 corymhosi vel paniculuti. Pra>floratio quincnncinlis (Dec). Augiiste de 

 St. Hilaire, Histoire des plantes les plus rcmarquablcs du Bresil, p. 130. 



G. odoratissima ; foliis obovatis utrinijue obtusis brev^ petiolatis, spicis bre- 

 vissimis axillaribus multifloris subsessilibus, staminibus quinque omnibus 

 fertibbus. 



* Aiiblet, with whom this name originated, does not explain its 

 meaning. 



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