XL. VOCIIYSIACE.E. 



1. SALVATEKIA SEEIES. 



To this series belongs VocIujsIk^ which has given its uanio to tlie 

 family ; bnt it docs not represent the most complete type, as it has 

 hnt three petals in a peutamerous flower, while Halmtcria. ^ (fig. 

 124-12G), which we shall first stndy, has the same number of 



Saifafcria c-jnrnHai'iceodi-ra. 



Fig. 124. Flower (|). 



Fig. 12.5. Diagram. 



Fiff. 1 26. Lon?. .sect, of flower. 



petals as sepals. The flowers are hermaphrodite and irregnlar, and the 

 receptacle slightly concave. Upon the edges of the small cvip which 

 constitutes it, are inserted five sepals, imbricated in a varied manner 

 in the bud, but generally quincuneially. Below the posterior sepal, 

 the receptacle dilates as in the iS'asturtinms into a hollow free spur. " 

 The five petals, scai'cely unequal, are imbricated in the bud like the 

 sepals with which they alternate. The androceum is formed at first 

 of five oppositipetalous stamens ; but generally one of them, the 

 anterior, alone becomes fertile, the two posterior disappearing com- 



1 A. S. H. in Mem Mns. vi. 266 ; ix. 340. 

 —DC. I'lodr. iii. 28.— SrAcii, Suit, a Jli'foii, 

 iv. 324.— ExDL. Gil. n. 6072.— B. H. (nii. 

 977, n. 5. — H. B-\. in Pai/cr Fam. 2iat. 3.51. 



- Like that of the Nasturtiums, the flowers 

 may also become monstrou.s, tlie sjiur en- 

 larging, or diminishing, or disn]ipcuring more 



or less completely ; the perianth thus becoming 

 apparently regular. In this case, there are often 

 two large fertile stamens, more rarely three, 

 one of which rather smaller, and the staminodei 

 are more developed than in the normal 

 flowers. 



