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integerrima v. interdura subserrata, glaberrima, nitida, cura ramis 

 articulata, exstipulata. Flores perfecti, regulares, umbellati v. 

 in racemos aut rarius in spicas terminales dispositi, pedunculis 

 basi articulalis, saepius bracteatis, bracteis interdum sacciformi- 

 bus V. cucullatis, petiolatis. Bracteolae ad basim calycis minimae, 

 laterales foliola calycina extima mentientes, nunc nullae. Cahjx 

 liber, di-tetra- penta- hexaphyllus, foliolis subaequalibus, distin- 

 clis V. basi subcoalitis, aestivatione imbricatis, coriaceis, plerum- 

 que coloratis, deciduis. Corollae receptaculo insertae petala 

 subcoriacea, nunc calycis foliolis numero aequalia et alterna, 

 libera v. inferne subcoalita, aestivatione imbricata, nunc plura, 

 in calyptrara clausam v. apice laceram, basi circumscisse solutam, 

 et staminum incremento sub anthesi dejectam connata. Stamina 

 nunc toro sub germine inserta, nunc ejusdem prolongationis dis- 

 coideae, germinis basira cingentis, liberae v. inferne adnatae mar- 

 gini imposita, rarissime calycis foliolis nuraero aequalia et oppo- 

 sita, saepissirae subindefinite plura, uniseriata, rarissirae plurima, 

 pluriseriata, aestivatione stricta. Filamenta libera v. iraa basi 

 inter se, quandoque etiara cura petalorum basibus cohaerentia, 

 infcrne latiora, plerumque coraplanata, superne angustata, erecta 

 V. palentia. Antherae introrsae, biloculares, ovatae, lineares v. 

 oblongae, dorso supra basim affixae, erectae v. patentes, loculis 

 appositis, parallele contiguis, juxta totam longitudinera, rarius 

 apice rimula brevi dehiscentibus. Germen sessile, liberum, inter- 

 dum disco starainifero adnato basi cinctura, tri-quinque-multilo- 

 culare, carpophyllorura marginibus introflexis, inter trophospermii 

 centralis lobos immissis, rarissirae axim haud attingentibus, disse- 

 pimenta formantibus. Gemmulae plurimae, trophospermii cen- 

 tralis lobis carnosis, interdura gerainatis, e loculorura angulo 

 centrali exsertis affixae, adscendentes (anatropae?), micropyle 

 prope punctura insertionis infera, nucleo prorainulo. Stigma 

 sessile, radiatuni, indivisura v. sublobatum, rarius stylura brevera 

 terrainans. Fructus in plurimis fortassis baccatus, in paucissimis 

 cognilus capsularis, a basi loculicide dehiscens, valvis raedio 

 septiferis, a trophospermio persistente, carnoso, substipitato, 

 lobato solutis. Semina gemraularura pluriraarura abortu pauca, 

 in trophospermio nidulantia, adscendentia, oblonga, utrinque ob- 

 tusa, recta v. incurva, integumento exteriore duriusculo, areolato, 

 hilo supra basim laterali, raarginato-irapresso, interiore racmbra- 

 naceo. Emhryo exalbuminosus, homotrope incurvus, clavato- 

 subcylindricus; cotyledonihus brevissirais, obtusis, radicula louga^ 

 conica, acuta, hilo parallele contigua, infera. 



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