PENTANDRIA-DIGYNIA . 417 



TROCHISCANTHES . 



Koch.Umb.p.iO^.fig.gS.yet Syn.Fl.Germ. et Helv.i. 

 p. 207. De Cand. Prodr. 4. p. i54. 

 Sniyrnii spec. yi/l. Fl. Ped. 2.. p. 21.' 

 Ligustici spec. Vill. Dauph. %. p. 608. 



Umbella composita , pauciradiata , patens . Involu- 

 crum nullum , aut monophylluni , lineare , vel 

 lanceolato-lineare , umbella brevius . UmbeIIul?e 

 pauciflorse , patentes , floribus internis plerisque 

 sterilibus . Involucella mono-diphylla , lauceola- 

 to-Iinearia , umbellula breviora . Margo calycina- 

 lis liber e lacinulis quinque , exiguis , lanceola- 

 to-Iinearibus , incurvulis . Petala gequalia , obcor- 

 data,Ionge unguiculata,ligula apicillari inflexa. 

 Stamina coroUa bieviora , antheris subrotundis . 

 Receptaculum floris latum , convexulum , ora re- 

 panda. Stili in anthesi brevissimi , erecti, in fru- 

 etu qnoque breves, stilopodium conicum, vix ele- 

 vatum subffiquantes , divaricati , aut recurvati . Sti- 

 gmata capitellata . Diachenium ovato-oblongum , 

 e latere commissurali paulo compressum , minu- 

 te granulatum , utrinque quinquecostatum , co- 

 stis sequalibus , acutis , alaeformibus , carina sca- 

 bridis , lateralibus marginalibus . Paries pericar- 

 picus adhaerens semini . Valleculae tti-quadrivitta- 

 t<e . Facies commissuralis sex-octovittata . Semen 

 subseniiteres . Carpophorum tenue, filiforme , de- 

 mum bipartitum , lilierum . 



Habitus. Planta perennis . Caulis procerus, gracilis, 

 erectus, striatus , superne subnudus , ramosissimus, 

 ramis brevibus , alternis , oppositis , verticillatis- 

 que . Folia ima subtriternata , foliolis grandibus , 

 ovato-oblongis , acuminatis , serratis , subinde bi- 

 -trilobatis ; reliqua vaginae subaphyllse. Petala al- 

 bo-viridula . 



I. TnocHiSGANTHES nodiflorus . 



Flor. Itah T. II L . 27 



