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v. lateralibus, solitariis v. paucis cymosis ; bracteolis 3, sub flore insertis. 
(Mexico, California.) — Vid. p. 68. 
V. HERMANNIEÆ. 
20. Hermannia L. — Flores regulares ; receptaculo leviter convexo. 
Calyx gamosepalus, 5-fidus, valvatus v. leviter reduplicatus. Petala5, 
torta, marcescentia v. decidua ; limbis sæpe inæqualibus; unguibus 
cavis. Stamina 5, oppositipetala ; filamentis basi nunc connatis oblongis 
v. superne dilatatis, nunc (Mahernia) basi attenuatis, versus medium 
dilatatis ibique extus nonnunquam papillosis ; antheris extrorsis ; loculis 
rima plus minus longa ab apice dehiscentibus. Germen sessile v. substi- 
pitätum ; loculis 5, alternipetalis, æ - ovulatis ; stylis totidem, basi plus 
minus coalitis, intus concavis, apice haud v. vix incrassato stigmatosi. 
Capsula loculicide 5-valvis, apice nuda v. cornuta ; seminibus ce , reni- 
formibus; embryonis albuminosi arcuati cotyledonibus oblongis. — 
Herbæ, suffrutices v. fruticuli; pube sæpius stellata ; foliis dentatis 
v. inCisis; stipulis foliaceis majuseulis, nunc parvis v. 0; floribus in 
cymas simplices v. compositas, nunc 1-paras, terminales , lateral 
v. Spurie subaxillares, dispositis. (A/rica trop. et austr., Arabia, Merito, 
Tezus.) — Vid, p. 71. 
21. Melochia L. — Flores fere Hermannie ; calyce subcampanulalo 
V. inflato, nunc demum valde vesiculoso (Pysodium, Physocod. 
Petala 5, nunc marcescentia. Stamina 5, oppositipetala ; anthers 
extrorsis, V. nunC 10; alternipetalis 5, parvis dentiformibus. Germel 
sessile v. breviter stipitatum ; loculis 5, oppositipetalis, rarius 4, v. rar# 
Sime 2 (Dicarpidium) ; ovulis in loculis singulis 2, adscendentibus; 
Micropyle extrorsum infera. Capsula loculicida, nunc angulato-pyran" 
data (Eumelochia) ; carpellis non v. vix secedentibus ; sæpius subgl” 
bosa ; carpellis nunc 2 (Dicarpidium), v. sæpius 4, 5, facilius solubilibus 
v. maturitate secedentibus ({iedleia, Mougeotia). Semina adscendentid: 
nuuC alata (Visenie); embryonis plus minus albuminosi cotyledonibis 
planis ; radicula infera. — Herbæ, suffrutices, frutices v. raro arborë 
foliis subovatis * cordatis, integris v. serratis; stipulis sæpius par” 
v. 0; floribus lateralibus Spurièque axillaribus, secus ramulum plus 
mious alte connatis elevatisque, solitariis v. cymosis, nuNC terminalibi 
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