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30 HISTOIRE DES PLANTES. 
GENERA 
L EVONYMEZÆ. 
1. Evonymus T.— Flores hermaphroditi regulares, 4-5-meri ; recep- 
taculo depresse conico v. plus minus concavo, intus disco vario, sæpius 
amplo, late explanato, inter petala breviter v. nunc longe producto, 
vestito. Sepala brevia, imbricata v. subvalvata, patentia v.recurva. Petala 
totidem longiora, imbricata, raro superne foveolata, integra, dentata v. ra- 
rius fimbriata facieve cristata. Stamina cum petalis alternantia numeroque 
æqualia ; filamentis subulatis, plerumque brevibus, apice sæpe recurvis ; 
antheris plus minus elongatis v. sæpius brevibus, sub-2-dymis, intror- 
sum v. plus minus extrorsum rimosis. Germen plus minus disco inmer- 
sum éumque eo confluens, 3-5-loculare v. demum sub-3-5-lohum ; stylo 
brevi, apice stigmatoso haud incrassato v. plus minus capitato lobatove. 
Ovula in loculis 1, v. sæpius 2, adscendentia ; micropyle extrorsum 
infera, v. descendentia; micropyle introrsum supera, nune rarius 4- ©, 
2-<eriatim inserta, obliqua v. transversa. Fructus capsularis, angulatus 
alatusve, coriaceus, nunc echinatus, loculicide 2-5-valvis ; valvis medio 
septiferis. Semiua in loculis 4, 2, v. rarius œ, arillo carnoso (colorato) 
involuta ; albumine carnoso ; embryonis axilis cotyledonibus latis folia- 
ceis; radicula infera v. rarius supera. — Arbores v. frutices erecti, 
nune scandentes, sæpius glabri; folis oppositis petiolatis (persistentibus), 
integris v. crenatis dentatisve ; stipulis parvis, caducis ; floribus in cymas 
axillares peduneulatas dispositis, rarius solitariis. (£wropa, Asia temp. 
et calid., Malaisia, Australia, America bor. temp.) — Vid. p. 1. 
2. Pachystima Rarix ‘. — Flores fere £vonymi, h-meri; recepta- 
1. In Amer. Month. Mag. (1818),exA.GRAY,  — Oreophila NuTT., in Torr, et Gr. FL N.- 
PI. Fendler., 29. — B. H., Gen., 361, n. 5.  Amer., |, 258. 
