72 FLOR. TELL. 



CENTURIA VIII. 



701. RESEDINIA, this little family of mine 

 belongs to the Order Polymesia and is very 

 near the Glinidia see 351, differing by unequal 

 calix, petals and stamens ; the capsule is uni- 

 locular end polysperm, seeds parietal, as in 

 some Hypericines, but the habit is very differ- 

 ent, and also from Droseridia ; altho' the flow- 

 ers are akin, but stamens not isarine. It is also 

 akin the Euphorbides ; how Jussieu and others 

 put them near the Capparides with a single 

 style, is rather strange. The G. Reseda of L. 

 is the type of it, and as it had a crowd of ano- 

 malies may be easily divided into several good 

 genera, only united by the fruit, which even 

 differs in Astrocarpos. 



702. Reseda Raf cal. 6part. ineq. petalis 

 6-8ineq. nonnulis intei^. et nonnulis divisis, stam. 

 12-14 hypog. ineq. disco glanduloso, stylis 3-4 

 caps, angul. verrucosa, apice 3-4 dent, dehis- 

 cens, uniloc. polysp. placentis 3-4par'\etR\'is.fol. 

 alt, sepe dissectis, fl. racemosis — Reseda o- 

 dorata must be the type of this old Genus,with 

 jR. sttffrutlcosa, lutea, gallica, mediterranean 

 tetragyna ? iSfC. 



703. Tereianthes Raf (cut fJ.) difi. 702, 

 cal. 5part. petalis 5 subeq. omnis 3 seu Sfidis, 

 stam. 11-15 ineq. stylis 3-5, — Types T.undata 

 Raf. Reseda do L. 2 T. fruticosa, 3 T. glau- 

 ca, 4 71 alba: all Resedas. 



704. Pectanisia Raf (comb uneq) diff, 702. 

 cal. 6part. reflexo magno, petalis 4 ineq. pecti- 



