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minulis Septo medio affixis inserta. Fructus capsularis carnosulus, 
calyce coronatus, « inter ejus lobos in valvas 5, placentam nudantes, 
ad basin dehiscens ». Seminaæ, oblonga imbricala albuminosa : 
€embryonis parvi cylindracei cotyledonibus subconnatis ». — Frutex 
ramosus glaber; ramulis teretibus ; foliis  oppositis, petiolatis, oblongo- 
lanceolatis acuminatis inæquidentatis, exstipulatis ; floribus? in cymas 
axillares densas subsessiles dispositis, breviter pedicellatis, bracteatis: 
bracteis oblongis obtusis®. ({ndia mont. *) 
X. PORTLANDIEÆ. 
144. Portlandia P. BR. — Flores hermaphroditi, 4, 5-meri; re- 
ceptaculo sacciformi obconico, obovoideo v. campanulato, germen 
intus adnatum fovente. Calycis lobi 4-6, elongato-subulati v. subfolia- 
cel, marginibus nunc inferne incurvis glanduloso-denticulati, per - 
Sistentes v. decidui (Coutarea, Coutaportla), valvati v. induplicati. 
Corolla infundibulari-campanulata v. subelavata; tubo plerumque 
9-g0n0, recto v. nune eurvo; limbi recti v. nune obliqui lobis 4, 5, 
rarius 6, margine attenuato imbricatis v. subvalvatis ({sidorea) redu- 
plicatisve ; fauce glabra. Stamina 4-6, imo tubo corollæ v. altius in- 
serta; filamentis plerumque nisi ima basi in annulum brevem connata 
liberis ; antheris basifixis lineari-elongatis apiculatis v. muticis, intror- 
sis, inclusis v. breviter exsertis. Germen inferum; loculis 2, completis 
v. incompletis; disco epigyno integro v. 2-lobo ; stylo filiformi, apice 
Stigmatoso integro, ?-dentato v. breviter 2-Jobo. Ovula in loculis + , 
V. pauca, descendentia alia ; alia adscendentia (Coutaportla), placentæ 
prominulæ seplo plus minus late affixæ inserta. Fructus capsularis, 
obovoideus v. obconicus, nune obcordatus, septo contrarie plus mi- 
nus compressus, septicidus (Tacourea, Isidorea) v. loculicidus ; valvis 
Superne plerumque 2-fidis v. 2-partibilibus. Semina  , v. pauca, com- 
pressa v. obtuse angulata ; margine attenuato (Euportlandia, Isidorea, 
Coutaportla) v. alato-marginato (Coutarea, Tacourea) : albumine Car- 
n0$0 ; embryonis majuseuli cotyledonibus ovatis v. suborbiculatis. — 
Arbores v. frutices glabri ; foliis oppositis, nune pungentibus ({sidorea), 
1. « Amplis ». \ 
2. Majusculis, « purpurascentibus 
3 . 
+ An potius Carlemanniæ sectio? 
4. Spec. {. S. bracteatus HooKk. Fr. -Psychotria 
WaLL., Cat, n. 8967. — ? Neurocalyx GRIFF., 
herb. n. 2880. 
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