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supremis coalilis (elramera, supra basin circumscissa, 

 emarada, persistens, œstivatione imbricala, tubo lu- 

 buloso vel campanuiato plus minus arcuato, Jimbo 

 subregulari vel saepissime bilabialo, labiis inœqualibus, 

 supenore îiitegro galealo vel plus minus emarginalo 

 bilobo, inferiore trifido, ad faucem sœpissime bipli- 

 calo bigibboso, plicaturis glabris villosisve. Slamina 4, 

 didynama, tubo corollae inserla. Antherâe biloculares, 

 persistenles, loculis basi sœpius calcarato-cuspidalis 

 rima longitudinali vel poro obJongo basi dehiscentibns. 

 Ovarium liberum, disco carnoso unilalerali sœpius ob- 

 solelo aul in glandulam anticam produclo cinctum, 

 uniloculare, placentis parietalibus utroque Jatere ova- 

 ni geminis distinclis aut geminatira coalilis, vel pla- 

 cenlis duabus e pariele porrectis late bilobis. Placen- 

 ta; erga axim infloreseenliœ latérales. Ovula plurima, 

 rarissime pauca, anatropa, funiculis brevibus vel in- 

 terdum longiuseubs. Slylas terminalis, simplex, per- 

 sistens vel diciduus, apice inllexus vel rarissime re- 

 clus. Sligma magnum, capitato-bilobum, lobis placen- 

 tis superpositia aut autice et postice sitis, nunc ob- 

 scure medio sulcaiis, rarius subcîavaluin indivisum. 

 Capsula unilocularis, apice vel juxta totam longitudi- 

 nem bivalvis, nunc valvis erga inflorescentiam latera- 

 libus apice et basi cohaerentibus antice et postice in 

 média parte longitudinis aperta, valvis medio vel sœ- 

 pius juxta médium placentas solitarias vel geminas, 

 filiformes vel dilatatas gerentibus. Sembla plurima aut 

 rarius pauca, minima subglobosa, oblonga aut pyri- 

 formia; testa crassiuscula fungosa, scrobiculata vel 

 interdum tuberculata; raphe et chalaza obsolelis; en- 



