166 HISTOIRE DES PLANTES. 
GENERA 
I. ERICEÆ. 
4. Erica T. — Flores hermaphroditi; receptaculo convexo. Se- 
pala 4, herbacea v. colorata, libera v. rarius basi connata, imbricata, 
persistentia. Corollæ marcescentis gamopetalæ, urceolatæ, tubulosæ, 
campanulatæ v. hypocraterimorphæ tubus brevis v. elongatus; limbi 
regularis v. obliqui lobis #4, tortis. Stamina plerumque 8, 2-plici 
serie ordinata; filamentis brevibus v. elongatis, imæ corollæ v. sub 
germine affixis, antheris liberis v. cohærentibus, inclusis v. exser- 
üs, dorsifixis v. basifixis; loculis 2, nunc basi et apice liberis, 
muticis v. basi cristatis v. aristatis, poris ellipticis v. rimis elon- 
gatis lateraliter v. leviter introrsum dehiscentibus. Diseus hypo- 
gynus, varie 8-lobus. Germen 4- v. raro 8-loculare; loculis oppositi- 
petalis 2- æ-ovulatis; ovulis placentæ tumidæ angulo interno insertæ 
affixis, anatropis; stylo plus minus late tubuloso, apice dilatato lobu- 
losque sligmatosos septales 4 circumcingente. Fructus globosus 
v. ovoideus loculicidus; valvis # ab axi 4-gono solutis. Semina pauca 
v. æ;testa Crustacea v. membranacea; albumine carnoso ; embryone 
axili cylindraceo. — Fruticuli v. frutices ramosi, glabri v. varie 
induti; folis verticillatis, rarius oppositis v. allernis, acerosis, margine 
reflexis v. raro recurvis; floribus pedunceulatis; bractea bracteolis- 
que 2, nunc summo pedicello elevatis ; axillaribus v.terminalibus, soli- 
tariis, verlicillatis, subcapitatis v. subumbellatis. (Africa austr., 
Rey. Mediterranea, Europa temp:) — Vid. p. 199. 
2? Ppentapera KL.' — Flores fere Erice, 5-meri° ; sepalis ovato- 
Raro 4-meri, Genus unde forte melius ad 
In Linnæa, XII, 497. — . in DC: 
2: Ericæ sectionem reducendum 
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Prodr., VW, 613; Gen., II, 589, 
