062.  POLYANDRIA. MONOGYNIA.: 
S. Vess. Berry hard, egg-shaped, fleshy, rough, narrow 
at the neck, crowned at the top, with many cells, (10 
to 15,) filled with pulp. 
SEEDS many, roundish. 
Oss. The Nymphza /utea has a cup composed of 5 circular 
leafits, and the petals are smaller than in the other species. 
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TILIA. Tourn, 381. Gaertn. 113. 
Cat. Cup with 5 divisions, concave, coloured, almost as 
large as the blossom, deciduous. 
Bross. Petals 5, oblong, blunt, scolloped at theend. ~ 
Stam. Filaments many, (30 or more,) awl-shaped, as 
eae blossom. Anthers simple. — } SD 
Pist. roundish. Style thread-shaped, as long as 
the stamens. Swmmit with 5 blunt edges. 
S. Vess. Capsule like leather, globular, with 5 cells, and 
5 valves, opening at the base, Oe) AE 
SEEDs solitary, roundish. cee 
Ons, In general only 1 seed comes to perfection, and this 
_ pushes aside the others, which are barren, so that an incautious 
Ferg would be apt to pronounce, that the capsule has but 
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CIS’'TUS. Tourn. 136, & 198, Helianthemum:Garrtn. 16: 
Cav. Cup 5 leaves, permanent. Leafits circular, concave, 
2 of them smaller, placed below, but alternating with 
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Loss. Petals 5, circular, flat, expanding, very large. 
Stam. Filaments numerous, hain like, shore than the 
blossom. Anthers roundish, small. = 
Pist. Germen roundish, Style simple, as long as the sta- 
mens. Swmmits flat, circular. . ahr ¢ 
S. Vess. Capsule roundish, covered by the cup, 
SEEDs numerous, roundish, small. ‘ 
Oss, The essential character of the genus consis in the 
2 smaller and alternate leaves of the calyx. Some species have 
a capsjle of 1 cell and 3 valves, in others it has 5 oF 10 cells 
and as many valves as there are cells. Linw, jit 
