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biloculares, cordato-ovatae, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Germen suh- 

 globosuni, quinqueloculare. Gemmulae in luciilis geminae, ex apice 

 anguli centralis collateraliter pendulae, anatropae. Str/li quinque, 

 filiforilles, distincti; sttgmata renifornii-dilatata. Drupa baccata, 

 carnosa, pentapyrena, pyrenis osseis, uni -bilocularibus, mono- 

 dispermis. Semina inversa. Embryo in axi albuminis carnosi ortho- 

 tropus, cotyledonibus foliaceis, planisj radicula tereti, hilo proxima, 

 supera. 



Genus unicum. 



6404, "B.\xgon\2L Linn. 



Obserratio* Hugonia^ gemis monolypimi, in India orientall 

 crescens, facie foliisque oppositis ad Hypericineas, semiriibus albuminosis ad 

 Clilaenaceas et Ternstromiaceas accedit, fructu drupaceo inter Guttiferas ano- 

 malum. 



Hugoniae Mystacis Linn. radix aromatica, violae odore suavis, sapore 

 amara, virtute touico - stimulans, diaplioretica , diuretica et antlielmintliica 

 perliibetur. 



Ordo CCXTH. Ternstroiniaceae. 



Arhores v. frutices^ succo aqueo, ramis ramulisque tereti- 

 bus. Folia alterna, saepe ad apices ramorura fasciculatim appro- 

 ximata, rarissirae opposita, simplicia, integra v. rarissime palma- 

 tifida, pleruraque perennia coriacea, interdura raerabranacea, 

 pellucide punctata, penninervia, iutegerrinia v. dentata, subtus 

 saepe sericeo-nitentia, petiolis basi cuni raraulo articulalis. Sti' 

 pulae plerumque nullae, rarissirae inter folia opposila interpetio- 

 lares v. ad basira petiolorura alternantium laterales, geminae. 

 Ftores perfecti v. interdum abortu iraperfecti,- regulares, nunc 

 axillares, solitarii v. fasciculati, nunc lerminales, raceraosi v. 

 paniculati, saepissime albi, rarius rosei v. rubri, rarissime flavi, 

 pedunculo basi articulato, nudo v. bracteato. Calyx pleruraque 

 liber, rarissirae inferne cura gerrainis basi connatus, persistens v. 

 rarius deciduus, saepissime bibracteolatus, tri-tetra-pentaphyllus, 

 rarius pleiophyllus, foliolis omnino distinctis v. interdura plus 

 rainus coalitis, coriaceis, concavis, subinaequalibus, irabricatis. 

 Corollae petala receptaculo v. rarius irao calyci inserta, ejusdem 

 foliolis numero aequalia, iisdem alterna v. opposita, rarius plura, 

 libera aut inferne distinctius v. obsoletius connata, saepe inaequi- 

 latera, per aestivationem imbricata v. subcontorta. Stamitia in- 

 definita, receptaculo v. irao calyci inserta, pluriseriata, saepissime 

 petalorum basi adhaerentia. Filamenta saepissirae brevia, filifor- 

 mia V. subulata, libera aut ima basi coalita, rarius in phalanges 

 distinctas collecta. Antherae introrsae, biloculares, basi v. dorso 

 insertae, raobiles v. adnatae, loculis arcte appositis v. inferne 

 discretis, antice longitudinaliter, rarius apice v. basi poro de- 

 hiscentibus, connectivo postice protuberante, interdura apice in- 

 crassato v, in glandulara excavatam producto. Germen liberum 



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