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pyrenn, pyrcnis 1 -2-locular. njaturrs saepe disjunctis, v. bacra 

 ■^-2-1 -loculnrls ; semina solitar. erecta v. ascend., alburaine 

 O V. parco. Spec. 610. 



a. LippiecB — schizocarpicae : — Verhena fStachjtar- 

 pJieiaJ, Lipjdd^ Jlqysia, CaryopterisP , Monochiliis, Priva 



b. Lantanece. — drupa indehiscente : — Spielmanniay 

 Lantana, ViteXj Premna; Tectona, Gmclina, Cytlmrcxylon, 

 Volkameria, Clcrodendron^ Duranta, Petrcea ?..., 



c. Aegiphilece — baccatae : — Amasonia, CalUcarpa, 

 Acgiphila. , Cornutia .... 



d. Avicenniece: arbores maritimae, flor. ^l-meris, ovario 

 biloculari, ovuhs bigeminis, collaler. penduhs, amphitropis; 

 bacca coriac. biv;dvis, monosperma, cmbr. in fructu germi- 

 nante, cotyled. hitissim. conduphcatis : — Avicennia. 



r A M. 139. A C A N T II A C E .E. 



HbDe, friitic. arbusculoe, nodoso-articulatae, foljis cstipuLitis, 

 oppositis, ternis et quaternis, integris, integerr. dentalis v. 

 spinoso-sinuatis. Flores monochni, irregulares, axillar. v. ter- 

 minales, cymoso-spicati, fasciculati, rarius sohtarii, passim 



bracteati et bracteolali: sepala 5-4, h connata v. subnuha, 



passim inaequaha, nov. imbricata; corolla hypogyna lubnlosa, 

 hmbo 3-.5-fido, l-21abiato, raro rcgulari, novello imbricato 

 V. contorto. Stamina e tubo 4 didynama, c. rudimenlo 

 quinli < v. 2 postica, antheris normalib. v. loculis divaricatis, 

 horizontal. v. verticalibus, altero saepe abortivo. Ovarium 

 e carpophyllis 2, antico et postico, bilocularc, synslylum, 

 ovuhs geminis v. pluribus, centralibus, amphi - v. campylo- 

 tropis, utplurimum processu placentaii bractcolalis. Cai>sula 

 bilocularis, quibusd. gynopodiala v. abortuu nilocul., bivalvis, 

 loculicida ; semina globosa v. conipressa (raro in loculis soli- 

 taria), bracteolae uncinatae (retinaculoj v. cupulari insidentia <, 

 exalbuminosa , embr. cuivato v. recto, cotyledonib. magnis 



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