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Herbaceous plants or shrubs. - tumid, and separable at v 



either opposite or alternate ; iu the latter 



stipuli •■«. Plowi ra 



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white, red, yellow, 

 or purple. Sepals5, 

 persistent, ribbed, 

 re or li as un- 

 equal, w itli an im- 

 bricated aestivation; 

 I Bomel 



cate or Bpurred :ii 

 the baa , Pi tafe "■. 

 seldom 4, in c 

 quence of 1 being 

 abortive ; unguicu- 

 late, tw isted in B68- 

 tivation, equal or 

 unequal, either hy- 

 pogyiious or peri- 

 3 uuens 

 usually monadel- 

 phous,h) pogj nous, 

 twice or thri 

 many as the petals; 

 some occasionally 

 abortive. Ovarj 

 com] car- 



•pela placed round 

 a long awl-shapi d 

 turn-, or growing 

 point, each 1 -celled, 



lil; -u 



i in:,' round the 

 trable 

 from it ; ovuli s 

 inatropa), ad- 

 hering to the torus, 

 formed of 

 S .-lulls, cohering 

 Nondalons 

 torus; each piece containing ed, having a membranous 



indurated style, which finaUj curls back from the base up« 

 pericarp along with it - titary, without albumen. Embr 



up: radicle pointing to the base of the cell ; 

 plaited. 



the long beak-like torn-, round which th< 

 membranous stipules :it joints « lii<-h are usually tumid, 

 an 1 all plants nol 



South American genus called Rhynchotheca, which 

 Natural Order, but which is surely an Oxaiid witl 

 fruit be! mgs to the carpels and n>.t t.> the t.>ru-. 1: 



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nule.s do not spring from the n 



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