104 GENRES SAUVAGESIA 
incumbentia , in tubum conniventia, linearia , obtusa, subretusa, 
subcrenulata, glabra, basi purpurea, apice alba, persistentia, 
externè cincta filis cum iisdem basi coalitis, crebris, uniseriatis, 
setaceis, obscurè purpureis, summo apice clavatis vel angulato-ro- 
tundis aut sæpiùs reniformibus. Sramina 5, cum petalis exterioribus 
interioribusque alternantia, iisdemque breviora , inclusagkerecta , 
persistentia, cum corollà interiore, filisque gynophoro brevissimo, 
vix manifesto inserta : filamenta brevissima, petalorum interiorum 
basibus infernè coalitis : antheræ basi affixæ, immobiles, posticæ , 
lineares , oblongæ, angustæ , 4-gonæ, 2-loculares, apice lateraliter 
dehiscentes. Sryzus terminalis, capillaceus , glaber. Sricua conti- 
nuum, vix manifestè dentatum. Ovariun glabrum, sub-5-lobum, 
1-loc., polyspermum, gynophoro brevissimo insidens. Capsura calyce, 
filis, corolla interiore staminibusque persistentibns cincta , ovato- 
oblonga , acutissima, 3-loba, 1-locularis, ab apice ad medium pau- 
lèque inferins vacua, et per valvulas 3 dehiscens; valvulis infra 
medium usquè ad basim marginibus introflexis, nec usquè ad cen- 
trum omuind productis, extremitate seminiferis nec revolutis. 
Sema 2-seriata, subgloboso-elliptica , basi mucronulata, eleganter 
favoso-scrobiculata, fusca , glabra : umbilico terminali, Inrecu- 
MENTUM crustaceum. PERISPERMIUM Carnosum. Emsryo axilis, rectus, 
teretiusculus : cotyledones obtusæ : radicula ad hilum spectans. 
Crescit in pratis humidis, ad fontes et ripas rivulorum, ct in pa- 
ludibus ; in Mexico (Moncino et Sece ex Gingins de Lassaraz); in 
Cuchero, Pillao, Ischutanam et Papato Peruvianorum (Ruiz et 
Pav.); in Nov Andalusië propè Caripè et Cumanacoa , item inter 
Mariquita et Real de S. Anna Novo-Granatensium (Mumb. ); in 
Cäienné et Guay an ( Aub.); in Domingo (Willd.); in Porto-Rico 
(Baudin, in Herb. Jus. ); in Jamaic4, inter Mount-Diable et 
St.- Ann. (Pat. Brown); Martinicé (Jaquin); $4.- Thomas ( Ledru) ; 
in Surinamo ( Wild.):inveni in Brasili&, à faucibus fluminis 
vulgd Rio-Doce usque ad prædium Jaguarahy ba, in campis quos 
