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produced above base into a very large spur; limb small. Other 
petals smaller; anterior connivent, lateral rather erect. Stamens 5 ; 
filaments very short, subperigynously inserted ; 2—4 inferior, shortly 
villose-calcarate at back. Anthers introrse, flat adnate, and germen 
nearly of Viola, globose-3-gonal. Ovules very numerous; style 
clavate, anteriorly at apex stigmatiferous. Capsule coriaceous, large, 
ovate, sub-3-agonal, ligneous, corticate ; valves 3, not elastic, semi- 
niferous at middle; seeds suborbiculate, plano-compressed ; testa 
crustaceous, rugose, not winged; albumen thin.—Scandent shrubs ; 
leaves alternate, petiolate, ovate, often sharply serrate or serru- 
late, glaberrimous, nitid; stipules deciduous; flowers’ in terminal 
racemes ; inferior solitary, in axils of upper leaves; pedicels elon- 
gated at middle, 2-bracteolate, and above bractlets articulate (7rop. 
America’). 
III SAUVAGESIE/A. 
15. Sauvagesia L.—Flowers regular hermaphrodite ; receptacle 
convex. Sepals 5, subequal, imbricated, finally very patent, fruc- 
tiferous closed. Petals same in number, alternate, convolute, patent 
at anthesis, deciduous. Stamens 5, fertile, alternipetalous, hypo- 
gynous ; filaments free ; anthers linear, 2-locular, extrorsely or sub- 
laterally rimose. Laminz petaloid 5 (staminodes ?), alternating with 
fertile stamens, and exterior to them, convolute, surrounded by fila- 
ments, externally glanduliferous at apex (linear staminodes ?), 5-10, 
oftener o, in alternipetalous bundles. Germen free, 1-locular ; ovules 
o , anatropous, ascendent, inserted on three parallel placentas ; style 
simple, apex stigmatiferous, obtusely or scarcely dilated. Capsule 
attended by persistent calyx and androceum, septicidal, 3-valved. 
Seeds o, small; testa crustaceous, usually scrobiculate ; albumen 
fleshy ; embryo axile ; radicle rather terete, longer than cotyledons.— 
Glabrous herbs or undershrubs ; leaves alternate, rather rigid, entire 
or serrulate, shortly petiolate or sometimes sessile; stipules pecti- 
nate-ciliate ; flowers axillary or in terminal racemes, bracteate (Zrop. 
America, all trop. regions). See p. 346. 

Handsome. 
Spec. 1, 2. Tr. & PL., in Ann. Sc. Nat., sér, 4, xvii, 124.—Watp., Rep., i. 223. 
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