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margisatae, pedicello brevissimo adhaerenles, demum sepalis siniillimac sed paulo 

 majores magisque concavae et insertione dignoscendae, IV2— l 2 /z""" longae. — Pe- 

 dicelli eximie abbreviali. — Calyx incompletus, 2—3 sepalus; sepala duo supe- 

 riori-lateralia (superum cum petalis alternans deest), tertium deficit v. bracteae op- 

 positum est. — Petaia duo, alba, longo persistentia, saepe plus minusve alte inter 

 se connata, axin racemi spectantia subovato-oblonga, exappendicnlata, l'/3 n "" longa, 

 omnino byalina. — Stamina tria; lilamenta breviter monadelplia, lineari-subulata, 

 glabra, longe persistentia, petalis partim breviora; antherae minulae utrinque emar- 

 ginatae, laeves. Grana pollinis pro proportione majuscula, Vis""" longa , circ. 2V2-pIo 

 longiora quam lata, caeterum ut in Reseda lutea. — Ovarium sessile, depresso- 

 globosum, 4-cuspidatuin, longitroraum 4-sulcatum, ei Holopetali simile. — Ovula 

 in quavis placenta circ. IS biserialia. - Capsula depresso-globosa, 2""" longa, levis, 

 caeterum ut in genere Holopelalo. Semina levissima, nitida, in ordine minutissima, 

 exacte 1 / 2 """ longa, in quaque Capsula circa 16; radicula bilo valde approximata ; 

 Embryo omnino Resedae. 



Habita t in deserto Gahirae et Alexandriae (Del. I. c. et specim. in hb. DC! 

 Coquebert, et Galopin [flores 3-sepali] in hb. DC. ! G. Ehrenberg in hb. Reg. Be- 

 rol. ! Kralik in hb. Boiss.!); in Arabia petraea (Schimper pl. exs. Un. it. N. 241 

 [R. Schimperi Presl. 1. c] in hb. DC. ! et Boiss.!); in Persia australi ad fontes ca- 

 lidas prope Dalechi (Kotschy pl. exs. N. 119 in hb. DC. !) 



ku. abortiva. 

 Reseda dipetala Spreng. Syst. II, p. 463 (fide specim. Spreng, in hb. DC.!); Wal- 



pers Repert II, p. 751 (ob petaia inaequaliter laciniata), non Ait. 

 R. capensis Willd. herb. fol. 9228 (!) non Jßurm. 

 Resedelia dipetala Webb. et Bertholl. Phyt. Canar. III, p. 107. 

 Oligomeris dipetala Turez. in Bull. Soc. imp. Mose. 1854 p. 330? 



Annua, pusilla, 8—12°'" longa (l^-pedalis, Dietr.) rarai subfiliformes, diametro 

 vix 1'"°' aequantes, parce ramosi, acute sulcato-angulosi. glaberrimi; folia anguste 

 Jinearia, subliliformia, circ. l cm longa, (sparsa Webb. I. c); flores subpolygami, se- 

 pala duo, capsulae pro parte ahortivae paulo quam in «. minores. 



Vidi tantum speeimina culta (in hb. DC. ! Boiss.! et hb. Reg. Berol.!) 



(3. Webbiana. 

 Reseda tridens Vis. Decad. pl. aegypl. p. 6 (1830); Pres). Repert. bot. p. 53; Dietr. 



Syn. 111, p. 29; Walp. Repert. II, p. 753. 



