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SCHWEIGGERIA pauciflora. 



Few-flowered Prong-violet. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 

 Nat. ord. Violace^e. 



SCHWEIGGERIA. Spreny. Calyx profunde quinquepartitus, laciniis 

 valde inEequalibus, tribus posticis multo majoribus, hastato-cordatis, in pe- 

 dunculum subdecurrentibus, duobus anticis minimis, angustis. Corolla pe- 

 tala 5, imo calyci inserta, valde insequaha, persistentia, antica lateralibus 

 breviora, posticum maximum, basi calcaratum. Stamina 5, subperigyna, pe- 

 talis alterna, insequalia; filament a brevissima, antherce introrsee, biloculares, 

 complanatse, adnatae, apice in appendicem membranaceum productee, loculis 

 longitudinaliter dehiscentibus, duarum anticarum connectivis in appendices 

 subulatas, liberas, intra calcar reconditas productis. Ovarium subglobosum, 

 uniloculare, placentis parietalibus tribus. Ovula plurima, anatropa. Stylus 

 terminals, clavato-dilatatus, incurvus, apice trilobus, lobis intus stigmatosis. 

 Capsula ovata, perigonio et genitalibus emarcidis tecta, unilocularis, trivalvis, 

 valvis medio seminiferis. Semina plurima, ovato-subglobosa, testa Crustacea, 

 rhaphe lineari elevata, ab umbilico prope basim sublaterali minute caruncu- 

 lato ad chalazam terminalem producta. Embryo in axi albuminis carnosi or- 



tbotropus, ejusdem longitudine, radicnla umbilico proximo, centrifuga.- 



Frutices brasiliensis ; foliis alternis, ovatis v. lanceolatis, dentiadatis, stipulis 

 lateralibus, geminis, minutis, pedunculis axillaribus, solitariis, unifioris, superne 

 bibracteatis, supra bracteas articulatis. Endlicher genera, no. 5044. 



S. paucifiora ; foliis e basi longe attenuate obovatis spathulatis obtusis cre- 

 nato-serratis, pedunculis axillaribus (labello lineis duabus elevatis glan- 

 dulosis). Martius nov. gen. ^ sp. pi. 1. p. 23 ; sub Glossarrhene. 



Glossarben pauciflorus. DeCand. prodr. I. 291. 



Frutex parvus, erectus, glaber ; ramulis compressis, lined elevata alatd a 

 basifoliorum utrinque decurrente. Folia oblonga v. obovata, in petiolum an- 

 gustata, crenaturis glandulosis ; utrinque stipidd squamceformi, stipata. Pedi- 

 celli axillares, pubescentes, bracteolati, nunc bracteolarum loco foliosi ; brac- 

 teolis basi et apice utrinque glandulosis. Sepala 5, basi haud producta ; 

 quorum dorsale ovatum undulatum, pallide virens, anterioribus omnino albis 

 paulo majore; duo interior a minima, alba, apice tridentata ; dente intermedio 

 elongato glanduloso. Petalorum alborum inferius maximum, calcaratum, cune- 

 atum, bilobum, lineis duabus elevatis glandulosis luteis pone basim. Stamina 

 sessilia, libera ; antherarum appendice terminali rotundatd, membranaced, an- 

 teriorum dorsali filiformi apice involutd. Stigmatis trilobi laciniis lateralibus 

 lanceolatis ascendentibus, intermedia obsoletd dentiformi. 



* So named after Professor Schweigger, one of the authors of a Flora 

 of Erlangen. 



