294 TETRADYNAMIA. SILIQUOSA. 
Pist. Germen heart-shaped. Style simple, very short, 
ermanent. Summit blunt. ec ines 
S. Vess. Pouch heart-shaped, bulging, turgid, 2-celled, 
notched at the end, furnished with a style, rough 
Valves bulging, blunt. 
SEEDS, about 4 in each cell. 
: VBERIS. Gertn. 141. 
Cat. Cup 4 leaves; leafits inversely egg-shaped, concave, — 
expanding, small, equal, deciduous. He 
Buoss. 4 petals, unequal. Petals inversely egg-shaped, — 
blunt, expangiing, the 2 outer ones much larger, equal, 
the 2 inner small, reflected ; claws oblong, upright. 
Stam. Filaments 6, awl-shaped, upright, the 2 later 
ones shortest. -Anthers roundish. age 
Pist. Germen roundish, compressed, Style simple, short. — 
Summit blunt. Sieg 
S. Vess. Pouch upright, nearly circular, compressed, 
notched at the end, encompassed by an acute border. 
Cells 2, Partition spear-shaped. Valves boat-shaped, 
Keeléd, compressed, iii 
SEEDS several, somewhat egg-shaped. 
SILIQUOSA. oa 
DENTWRIA, Tourn. 110. i eee 
Ca. Cup 4 leaves; leafits egg-oblo , approaching t0- 
wards the top, blunt, dscllipa She Dns 
Buoss. 4 petals, He a cross. Petals circular, blunt, 
shghtly notched at the end, flat, ending in claws 
as. as the cup. ae pnt Te 
Stam. Dias 6. awl-shaped, as long as the cup, 2of 
them shorter. Anthers heart-oblong, upright. 
Pist. Germen oblong, the le of the stamens. le, 
very short and thick. Swmmit blunt, notched at the ene 
S. Vess. Pod long, cylindrical ; cells 2. Valves 2, penis 
with a jerk, and the valves rolling back. Partiit” 
rather longer than the valves. oF a 
SEEDS many, somewhat egg-shaped, 
