POLYANDRIA. DIGYNIA. _263 
DIGYNIA. 
POTE/RIUM. Tourn. 68, Pimpinella. Gertn. 32. 
Male flowers forming a spike. 
Cat. Cup 4 leaves. Leajits egg-shaped, coloured, shedding. 
Buoss, with 4 divisions, roar egg-shaped, concave, 
- © expanding, permanent. cabs 
Sram. Filaments many, (30 to 50,) hair-like, very long, 
limber. Anthers roundish, double. => > 
Female flowers, above the male, on the same spike. 
Car. Cup as above. ah OF: 
- thick, hard, and closed.» ~ 
SEEDS 2. ~ 
Ons. P. Sanguisorba bears a berry which is ‘angular and 
juiceless, its seeds are 4-cornered, tapering to a pomt at each 
end. The male flowers produce 2 fecble pistils. Linn. and 
the calyx has 2, 3, or 4 leaves. (Reich.) 
TRIGYNIA. 
DELPHIN’IUM. Tourn. 241. Gertn. 65. 
Car. Cup none. i, ote te 
Bross, Petals 5, unequal, placed in a circle, the upper- 
‘most before blunter than the rest, behind extended into 
a straight, tubular, long, blunt horn, the other egg- 
spear-shaped, expanding, nearly equal. 
‘Nectary cloven, its front standing in the upper part 
of the circle of the petals, and its hinder part inclosed 
by the tube of the uppermost petal. 
Sram. Filaments many, (15 to 30,) awl-shaped, broadest 
at the base, very small, leaning towards the uppermost 
petal. Anthersupright, small. 7 
Pst. Germens 8 or 1, egg-shaped, ending in styles as long 
as the stamens. Swmmits simple, reflected. 
S. Vess. Capsules 3 or 1, egg-awl- haped, straight, with 
1 valve, opening inwards, =~ 
SEEDs many, angular. 
