30G 



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membranous, campanulate, or forming a compressed truncate sub-bilabiate cup. 

 PETALS 4, claws united at the base, limb rliomboid. STAMENS 4, alternate with the 

 petals, exserted ; filaments subulate, glabrous ; anthers 2-celled, versatile, oblong, 

 didymous, incumbent, introrse, dehiscence longitudinal. OVARY rudimentary or 0. 

 FL. $ : FLOWERS in a fleshy spike ; bracts as in the $ , deciduous, the two lower 

 connate. CALYX and COROLLA 0. OVARIES 8-12, coherent, adherent to the 

 base of the bracts, 4-celled ; style ; stigma capitate, sub-bilobed ; ovules solitary, 

 erect, anatropous. RIPE CARPELS 4-celled, connate, and forming a fleshy ovoid- 

 conical fruit ; endocarp coriaceous. SEEDS erect, oblong, straight ; testa membranous ; 

 albumen 0. EMBRYO conformable to the seed ; cotyledons fleshy, oblong, compressed ; 

 radicle short, near the hilum. 



ONLY GENUS. 

 Ratis. 



The affinities of Satis are very obscure ; in linbit it resembles C/'icnopodicce, but the structure of 

 its flower appears to indicate a closer affinity with Reaunmriacea , Tamariscinea;, and with some Zyyo- 

 f, through Tribuhis. It inhabits the seashores of tropical America. 



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(GERANIA, Jussieu. GERANIOIDE^E, Ventenat. GERANIACE^E, D.C.) 



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