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glanduloso-punclata, seniper cxstipulata. Flores pcrfecti, regulares 

 aut rarius irregnlares, in foliorum axillis solitarii, glonierati, fasci- 

 culati V. cyniosi, interdum foliis floralibus abbreviatis, bracteae- 

 formibus spicali aut racemosi, rarissime paniculati, pedunculis pe- 

 dicellisque basi, niedio aut interdum apice bibracteolatis, alabastrum 

 includentibus, persistentibus sive deciduis. Calyx liber, persistens, 

 tubulosus V. campanulatus, rarius urceolatus, tri-multidentatus, 

 tubo saepissime nervoso v. costalo, recto aut rarissime obliquo, 

 basi gibboso aut subcalcarato, limbi dentibus plus minus profundis, 

 nunc uniseriatis, aequalibus, aestivatione valvatis, nunc biserialis, 

 dentibus alternis exterioribus angustioribus, saepe simul brcviori- 

 bus, interdum minutis v. fere obsoletis, per aestivationem inte- 

 rioruni valvatim accumbentium commissurae incumbentibus, tubi 

 costis in medias lacinias excurrentibus. CoroUae petala (rarissime 

 deficientia) summae calycis fauci inserta, ejusdem dentibus inte- 

 rioribus numero aequalia et alterna, exterioribus dum adsunt 

 opposita, sessilia v. unguiculata, obovata, ovala v. oblonga, ae- 

 qualia v. rarissime poslica majora, tcnera, aestivatione imbricata, 

 margine saepissime plicato-undulata, sub anlbesi patentia, decidua, 

 nonnunquam fugacissima. Stamina calycis tubo prope faucem, 

 medio v. paullo supra basim inserta, ejusdem nervis continua, 

 petalis numero aequalia et alterna, rarissime pauciora, saepissime 

 dupla aut tripla, uni-pluriseriata, inclusa aut exserta, ^aequalia 

 sive inaequalia, omnia fertilia V. rarissime nonnulla sterilia. Fi- 

 lamenta filiformia, libera, aestivatione recla v. inflexa. Antherae 

 introrsae, biloculares, ovatae v. oblongae, erectae s. incumbentes, 

 longiludinaliter dcbiscentes. Germen liberum, sessile v. breviter 

 stipitatum, rarissime basi annulo carnoso cinctum, v. glandula 

 unilaterali slipatum, bi-tri-quadri-quinque-sexloculare, interdum 

 septis abbreviatis v. apice faliscentibus subuniloculare. Gemmulae 

 in trophospermiis dissepimenti medio v. loculorum angulo centrali 

 adnatis, aut semiseptorum basim nectenlibus plurimae, rarissime 

 paucae, adscendentes v. horizontales, analropae. Stylus termi- 

 nalis, simplex, plus minus longus; stigmate simplici, obtuso v. 

 capilato, rarissime emarginato-bilobo. Capsula membranacea aut 

 rarius coriaceo-Iignosa, calyce (interdum aucto) basi cincta v. 

 inclusa, bi-plurilocularis aut saepissime septis sub maturitate 

 obliteratis unilocularis, irregulariter rumpens, circumscissa v. 

 regulariter valvis dehiscens, valvis medio septa aut septorura 

 Tudimenta gerentibus, trophospermiis in columnam persistentem, 

 liberam coalilis. Semina plurima aut rarius pauca, ovato-angu- 

 lata V. cuneata, aptera, v. plano-compressa, raembranaceo-mar- 

 ginata v. alata, integumento coriaceo, hilo in his marginali, in 

 illis basilari. Embryo exalbuminosus, orthotropus: cotyledonihus 

 saepissime suborbiculatis, plano-convexis, basi biauriculatis, ra- 

 rissirae semicylindricis, radicula brevi, bilo proxima. 



