472 HISTOIRE DES PLANTES. 
GENERA 
I. ARDUINEÆ 
1. Arduina Mic. — Flores hermaphroditi regulares ; recepla- 
culo convexiuseulo. Sepala 5, basi æ-glandulosa v. sæpius eglan- 
dulosa, imbricata. Corolla hypocraterimorpha; tubo cylindraceo, 
sæpius ad stamina dilatato ; fauce esquamala sæpius constricta ; limb 
lobis 5, Lortis, dextrorsum v. sinistrorsum obtegentibus. Stamina 5, 
sub apice tubi inclusa ; antheris ovato-lanceolatis, obtusis v. api- 
culatis, usque ad basin polliniferis ibique ecaudatis, introrsum 
2-rimosis. Germen integrum ; loculis 2, completis v. nunc incom- 
pletis; stylo ad apicem stigmalosum acute oblongo v. fusiformi glu- 
linoso, Sammo apice subintegro v. breviter 2-fido. Ovula in loculis 
1-4, v. pauca, 2-seriatim descendentia, aut lateraliter affixa ; micro- 
pyle extrorsum supera; aut rarius (Acokanthera) vix anatropa; raphe 
brevi v. 0, indeque subadscendentia ; micropyle supera. Fructus 
baceatus, globosus v. ellipsoideus, 4, 2-locularis. Semina 1, v. pauca, 
plerumque peltatim affixa; albumine carnoso ; embryonis recti Coly- 
ledonibus ovatis; radicula supera. — Frutices ramosi, inermes v. 
ramulis sterilibus spinescentibus variis nune 2-furcatis armati; 
foliis oppositis penninerviis; floribus in eymas terminales v. axil- 
lares peduneulatas v. subsessiles, nune contractas, sæpe ad flores 
paucos v. 1 reductas, dispositis. (Orbis vet. reg. trop.) — Vid. p. 146. 
2. Ambelania AUBL.' — Flores fere Arduinæ; sepalis 5, obtusis, 
liberis v. basi connatis, imbricatis. Corolla hypocraterimorpha v. 
subinfundibularis; tubo gracili ad stamina dilatato : limbi lobis 9, 
l. PL. guian., 4, 265, L 104. — ENDL., Gen, B. H., Gen., 11, 694, n. 11. — Willoughbei 
n. 933174. — À. DC., Prodr., VIL, 328. —  Scop., Gen., 162 (non Roxe.). , 
