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paris sacpc ininore, nonnunquani niinimo, slipulaeformi, pcliolata 

 V. sessilia, simplicia, integra, integerrinia v. serrata, basi plerurn- 

 que inaequilatera, e.\stipulata. Flores perfecti, irregulares, cy- 

 mosi, racemosi v. interdum spicati, quandoque fasciculati, nudi v. 

 bibracteolati. Calyx persistens liber v. cum germine plus niinus 

 connatus, limbi quinquepartiti lobis inaequalibus. Corolla re- 

 ceptaculo v. annulo carnoso intra germen et calycis tubum ad- 

 natum protruso inserta, gamopetala, tubulosa, infundibuliformis, 

 campanulata v. ringens, plus minus obliqua, basi saepissime po- 

 slice gibba, fauce aperta v. constricta, limbo antice producliore, 

 quinquefido, bilabiato, labio superiore bi- inferiore trilobo, lobis 

 aestivatione imbricatis. Stamina corollae tubo inserta, inclus.l v. 

 exserta, quinto postico anantbero v. penitus suppresso quatuor 

 didynama, v. anticis aut lateralibus sterilibus nonnisi duo. Fila- 

 menta filiformia v. complanata, e basi latiore scnsim angustata, 

 recta v. arcuata aut nonnunqnam implexa. Antherac sacpissime 

 inter se cohaerentes, biloculares, v. loculis confluentibus, aut 

 alterius loculi nonnunquam demissius inserti abortu uniloculares, 

 terminales v. in connectivo interdum bicruri sublaterales, longi- 

 tudinaliter dehiscentes. Germen liberum v, inferne cum calycis 

 tubo connatum, rarius omnino inferuro, disco interrupto sive in- 

 tegro, nonnunquam unilaterali cinctum v. coronatum, rarissimc 

 disco destitutum, diphyllum, uniloculare; trophospermiis parieta- 

 libus duobus, oppositis, dextrum et sinistrum ab axi floris latus 

 occupantibus, nunc in pariete sessilibus bilobis, carnosis, nunc 

 e lamella parietali porrectis, in laminam latam axim attingentem, 

 Tindique gemraulis onustam, v. in axi nudam, ad margines revo- 

 lutos, cavitatera in loculos quatuor spurios particntes gemmuli- 

 feram expansis. Gemmulae plurimae, in funiculis brevibus v. 

 longiusculis anatropae. Styliis filiformis, simplex; stigma capila- 

 tum, concavum v. bilobum. Fructus nunc baccatus, trophosper- 

 miis duohus parietalibus pulposis, nunc capsularis, ovatus v. sub^ 

 globosus aut siliquaeformis, bivalvis, valvis rectis v. tandcm 

 spiraliter conlortis, trophospermiis adnatis v. tandem solutis, 

 capsulam interiorera duplicem mentientibus, rarissime circumscis- 

 sus. Semina plurima, minima, e funiculis brevibus v. longiusculis 

 pendula s. porrecta, interdum funiculo piliformi et chalaza in pi- 

 lum desinente utrinque aristata. E?tibryo exalbuminosus, v. iri axi 

 albuminis plus minus copiosi orthotropus, cotyledonibus seniicylin- 

 dricis, radicula obtusa, hilo basilari proxima. 



^u1)ordoI« Cyrtandreae. .Sewi//2« exalbuminosa. 

 TRIBUS I. DIDYMOCARPEAE. Fruclus capsularis. 



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413 4. Aescliynanthus /«c-?-. 4135. l^iehigU Endl. 



Trichosporum Don. Tromnisdorffia Bhim. 



