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Charact. âiffcrenlialis. 



Penoonii partes très ovatae concavae. Slamen i hypogynum. Stigmata 3- 

 Capsula trilocularis, trivalvis. 



Character naluralis. 



Spaiha diphylla, pliyllis opposltis pedicellum cingens. 



pcrinmii pai'tes très, aequales, ovalae, concavae, membranaccae, albae, capsulam 

 aequanles. 



Slamen unicum , inter pcrigonii partes, hypogynum, distans. Filamenlum 

 filiforme. Anllieva elliptica, bilocularis, longitudinaliter laterlbus dehiscens. Pullen 

 glûbosum, flavum. 



Oi'arium ovatum , glabrum , striatum. 



Sligmala tria, brevia, divergentia. 



Capsula ovata, g-slrinta, glabra, sfigmatibus persistentlbus coronala, trilocularis, 

 trivalvis: valvulis longitudinaliter latere dehiscentibus, apice basique cohaerentibus. 



Placenta ccntralis, oblonga, Irigona, angulis inembranaceis valvulis adhaerens, 

 dissepimentum formans. 



Scmina nuraerosa, elliptica, 1. basi mox obliqua mox attenuata, fusca, foveolis 

 placentae affixa, practer testam membrana lenuissima spumoso-cellulosa obducta 

 et marginata. 



Habilus. riantula pusilla, submersa, erecta, caespitosa, ramosa, dense foliosa, 

 radicibus fibrillosis saxis adnascens. 



Elymohgia. ÎSomea e graeco v.ov^vs] (scaturigo I. fons) formalum. 



