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Genus 3. Saponaria. 



Flores terminales, alares vel axillares, cymosi, purpurei, albi, 

 raro flavi; cahjx gamosepalus, tubulosus vel clavato-campanu- 

 lalus, quinquedentatus, liberus, persistens, ebracteatus; corolla 

 pentapetala, calyce longior et bypocraterimorpha, fauce coro- 

 nata duabus squamis in quovis petalo obovato, ung-uiculata , 

 unguibus calyce subaequalibus et angastisj stamina decem, pe- 

 talis inserta, calycem aequantia aut parc3 longiora, filamentis 

 subulatis et antheris oblongis, bilocularibus , incumbentibus" 

 slyli 2-3-5 flliformes, stigmata simplicia, latere superiore 

 pubescentia ; capsula membranacea, cylindrica , unilocularis, 

 quatrivalvis, apice dehiscens , quatridentata, sessilis ; semina 

 plurima vel pauca , reniformia, ragulosa" emhnjo aunularis; 

 cotyledones incumbentes; folia opposita, varia. Herbae vel suf- 

 frutices. 



EndL Gen. Pl. pag- 972. n. 5246. — DC. Prodr. 1. pa- 

 gina 365. — Lin. Gen. pag. 199. — Bert. FI. It. 4. pag. 530. 

 Guss. Syn. Fl. Sic. 1. pag. 474. — Torn. Fl. Sic. pag. 145. 

 Moris Fl. Sard. 1. pag. 237. 



Sectio I. Flores carymhosi, suhfasciculati, terminales. 



I. 8. depressa. — Flores grandiusculi, terminales et alares, 

 corymboso - subfasciculati, fasciculis inaequalibus , subternis, 

 geminis, solitariis, longe aut breve pedunculatis et pedicella- 

 tis; calyx tubulosus, longus, subinflatus, piloso-glandulosus, 

 viscidus, superne plerumque rubens, quinquedentatus, denti- 

 bus acuminatis, erectis; corolla rosea, calyce longior, quin- 

 quepetala, unguiculata, ungues sepalis longiores et exerti ; 

 lamina bifida, segmentis obovatis , obtusis, cum fauce coro- 

 nata, squamis duabus subulatis, acutis; stamina corolla lon- 

 giora, recurvata, filamentis albis et antheris oblongis, flavis; 

 ovarium oblongum, viride, quatrivalve, quadratum; sti/li duo 

 post anthesim elongati , albi ; stigmata pubescentia ; capsula 

 elongata, non inflata sed depressa et scabriuscula; semina fu- 

 sca, tuberculata, reniformia; scapvs sfmplex aut dichotomus, 



