126 HISTOIRE DES PLANTES. 
plerumque semiexserta, nunc abortiva; inferiora autem totidem 
inclusa ; antheris omnium linearibus v. oblongis obtusis, introrsis. 
Diseus hypogynus brevis membranaceus v. brevissimus anvularis, nune 
sæpe obsoletus. Germen sessile ; stylo laterali, tubum æquante, apice 
stigmatoso capitato. Fructus nucularis, calyeis persistentis basi inclusus; 
semine parce albumimoso. — Frutices v. suffrutices, aut ericoidet, aut 
foliis herbaceis v. subcoriaceis alternis oppositisve donati ‘; floribus * 
terminalibus, breviter spicatis v. sæpius capitatis; receptaculo sæpe 
peduneulato nunc hemisphærico, sæpe (Lasiosiphon) villoso, foliis Hora- 
libus (paucis v. œ) imbricatis (nune majoribus) involuerato. (/rdia, 
Africa austr. et trop. occ, et or. cont. et insul. *) 
12. Lachnea Roy. * — Flores hermaphroditi, 4-meri, regulares v. 
nunc irregulares; perianthii tubo recto v. areuato, gracili v. infundi- 
Puliformi, nune suburceolato (Cryptadenia *), supra germen angustato 
et demum circumeisse deciduo; limbi lobis æqualibus v. in limbo 
2-Jabio irregularibus ; labio postico minore (1-lobo); antico autem 
majore patenti-recurvo (3-lobo); præfloratione imbricata, Slamina 8, 
ad summum tubum inserta, 2-seriata; superiora 4, oppositisepala et 
exserta; filamentis gracilibus brevibus, nune barbatis ; antheris ovatis 
v. oblongis obtusis. Squamulæ 8 $, cum staminibus alternantes, nunc 
minimæ, aut in faucis pube subabsconditæ, aut ad v. infra medium 
tubum insertæ (Crypladenia) antherisque multo inferiores. Discus hypo- 
gyous 0. Germen sessile ; stylo laterali capillari, apice stigmatoso capi- 
tato sæpius exserto. Fructus nucularis, calycis basi persistente mclusus; 
semine parce sæpius albuminoso. — Frutices v. fruticuli sæpe ericoidet 
ramosi ; ramis gracilibus ; foliis alternis v. oppositis, linearibus v. acerosis, 
glabris v. varie pilosis ; floribus 7 nunc termivalibus solitariis v. sæpius 
capitatis involucratis nudisve. (Africa austr.®) 
1, Rami fo'iati sers folium AT ESS 
FR nosarum), ut aiunt, simulant 
. Albis AT dci rubris. 
3. Spec. ad ie F., Suppl, 225. — 
2 
(Laviosip pan — Mi. 
Ann. 1 Canne) 
»87 bte) : e— re 
: 
x L., Pa Lo M Fu, 
“ — GÆERIN., Fruct,, WU, 495, 1 
Lask, Dict., HE, 373 re à 292. — = Eos 
MEISSX., in Linnæea, ms Ds: pts PSS 
sen ste be  . ed. gr ces — Gonophylla 
ECKL.  mss. (ex sx.). — Rado- 
Jitskya gr Her . 1 Bull, je (1839, 176. : 
573. — ExnL. , Suppl, IV, p. ll, n. 2101. 
— Cal ysericos ER et ZEYH. (ex MEISSN.). 
n staminodia 
%. des roseis vV. se 
8. Spec. ad 22, L., Spec., ed. 1, 560. — 
Buru., Afr., t. 46, 48 (Thymelwa). — THUNB., 
ri cep., 379 els À ge Gnidia). — 
, Bot. Repos., t. 104. Tune ., in Flora 
(Sä, 743 hate le) Bot. Mag 
t. 1295, 4143 (Passerina). 
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