998 OCTANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 
S. Vess. Capsule very long, cylindrical, scored with 4 
cells, and 4 valves. Partitions opposite the valves. 
_ SEEDs numerous, oblong, crowned with down. Receptacle 
very long, 4-cornered, loose, limber, coloured, con- 
nected with the partitions, containing the seeds in a 
double row. | as (Pet 
Oxs. In some species the stamens and pistils are upright, 
in others they lean to the lower side of the blossom. Linw. 
* OENO’THERA. Tourn. 156. Onagra. 
Car. Cup 1 leaf, superior, deciduous’ Tube cylindrical, 
upright, long, deciduous. Border 4-clefted ;. segments. 
ables Z, acute, rather bending outwards. =. 
Buoss.: Petals-4, inversely heart-shaped, flat, inserted into 
the divisions of the pa Sg as long as the segments of 
the calyx. 
Stam. Filaments 8, awl-shaped, bowed inwards, placed 
on the mouth of the calyx, shorter than the b 
Anthers oblong, fixed by the side. 3 
Pist. Germen cylindrical, beneath, Style thread-shaped, 
| be h ts seam Summit 4-clefted, thick, 
unt, bent rather angularly. a ls 
S. Vess. Capsule cylindrical, Ecornered, with 4 cells, 
and 4 valves, ; wee es 
Ps 
SEEDs many, angular, naked. Receptacle columnar, loose, 
= es : ; pe 0 y 
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stake DSS 
4-cornered,. 
A’CER. Tourn. 386. 
Hermaphrodite flowers. - 
Cau. Cup 1 leaf, with 5 clefts, acute, coloured, flat and ‘* 
" entire at the base, permanent. 
_ blunt, scarcely larger than the cup, expanding. 
Sram. Filaments 8, awl-shaped, short. Anthers 
Pollen cross-shaped. ) Gg £6) yi oo ten ‘ 
_ Pisr. Germen compressed; nearly buried. in a large Pé 
~ forated convex ‘receptacle, Style thread-shaped, C7 
Fhe longer. Summits 2, tapering to a point, 
der, bent back? ele Es SO a 
S, Vess. Capsules as many ‘as’ the summits, (2 or 33) f 
_ united‘at the ‘base, roundish, “compressed, each 
