242 HISTOIRE DES PLANTES. 
II. RAPATEEÆ. 
2. Rapatea AUBL. — Flores regulares hermaphroditi; sepalis 3, 
lanceolatis acutis rigide paleaceis, imbricatis v. tortis, basi in tubum 
brevem tenuiter membranaceum connatis. Corollæ tubus cylindraceus 
latiusculus brevis tenuiter membranaceus; limbi lobis 3, latis, im- 
bricatis v. tortis. Stamina 6; filamentis erectis brevibus fauci insertis; 
antheris elongatis basifixis, introrsum 2-sulcatis, apice ultra loculos 
in collum geniculatum productis; collo appendice erecta cochleata 
superato; loculis poro unico communi ad basin appendiculæ intror- 
sum debhiscentibus. Germen superum sessile; loculis 3, alternipetalis, 
completis v. incompletis, 1-ovulatis. Ovulum ab anguli interni basi 
suberectum anatropum; micropyle extrorsum infera. Stylus termi- 
nalis, apice integro v. vix diviso stigmatosus. Fructus capsularis 
subsphæricus, obovoideus v. clavatus, ab apice usque ad medium 
v. fere ad basin loculicidus; valvis 3 intus septiferis patulis. Semina 
1-3, oblonga obtusa subteretia inappendiculata, tenuiter striata; 
albumine farinaceo : ; embryone basilari depresse lenticulari. — Herbi 
perennes robustæ v. humiles; rhizomate crasso in limo radicante; 
folis basilaribus elongatis v. lanceolatis petiolatis, basi in vaginam 
complicatam dilatatis. Flores in summo scapo brevi v. longo spurie 
Sp, glomerulis 4-paris crebris v. eymis intra bracteas involu- 
cräntes 2, herbaceas, basi lata cordatas longeque acuminatas, con- 
gestis; pedicello quoque longiusculo v. brevissimo bracteolis crebris 
imbricatis appressis ab infimis gradatim longioribus stipato. (Bra- 
silia, Guiana, Venezuela.) — Vid. p. 236. 
3? Saxofridericia SCHOMB.t — Flores Rupateæ?; antheris haud 
v. vix ultra loculos appendiculatis. Germinis loculi perfecti v. incom- 
pleti; ovulis in quoque 2-8, placentæ lateraliter affixis, 2-seriatis. 
— Herbæ elatæ robustæ ; rhizomate crasso; foliis basilaribus longis 
vaginatis; petiolo vario v. 0; scapo elato, sæpius apice sensim dila- 
tato; floribus sessilibus glorheratis (spurie capitatis); bracteis ?; 
capithluts : inv olucrantibus magnis membranaceis subherbaceis, bas 
Rapat. Fried.-Aug. u. Saxo-Frid. reg. n. 3. — ENGL., Pres rime 7. — Acrotheca 
a8is) 13,12. — KRNGKE, in Linnæa, XXXVII, 7. loc. ce 6 (sub 
452, t. 1, fig. 13, 14. — B. H., Gen., LIL, 858, . Cujus fonts dues St 
