TRIURIDACÉES. 91 
GENERA 
1. Triuris Miers.— Flores diœci regulares ; receptaculo convexo ; 
perlanthio simpliei profunde 1-seriatim 3-6-lobo; lobis e basi lata 
ovalo-3-angulari in caudam filiformem lamina multo longiorem et 
in alabastro induplicatam abrupte attenuatis; præfloratione valvata. 
Stamina in flore masculo 3, cum perianthii foliolis alternantia; 
antheris sessilibus, basin versus receptaculi centralis magni obtuse 
coniei v. pyramidati immersis; loculis remotis, 2-dymis, apice rima 
transversa confluentibus et inferne introrsum dehiscentibus. Floris 
fœæminei carpella œ, in receptaculo tumido sessilia libera; germi- 
nibus (in flore masculo nune paucis rudimentariis) ovoideis, 1-locu- 
laribus, in stylum subulatum terminalem v. subterminalem attenuatis, 
apice acuto v. oblique truncato stigmatosis. Ovulum 1, adscendens ; 
micropyle extrorsum infera, — Herbæ exiguæ (coloratæ); caule fili- 
formi, 1-4-floro; pedicellis gracilibus, basi bracteatis. (Brasiliu.) — 
Vid. p.88. 
2. Seiaphila BL.! — Flores? (fere Triuridis) monœci v. diœci, 
nunc raro polygami; receptaculo plus minus profunde cupulari. 
Perianthium margini insertum, 3-8-partitum v. profunde lobatum ; 
segmentis ovato-lanceolatis v. subulatis, valvatis, æqualibus v. alter- 
nalim majoribus ; apicibus plus minus elongatis, in æstivatione inflexis. 
Antheræ in flore masculo 2-6, sessiles v. filamento brevi receptaculo 
intus plus minus profunde aftixæ, 2-dymæ, sæpius latiores quam 
longiores et rimis transversis extrorsis confluentibus v. singularibus 
1. Bijdr., 514; Mus. lugd.-bat., 1, 321, VII, 468. — Hyalisma mg loc. cit 
Linn 
fig. 48. — B. H., Gen.. fil, 1002, n. 2. — ENGL., Mens, in Trans. XXI, 48, £. 7, 
Pflansenfam., Lief. 26, p. 237, fig. 179, A-Q; fig. 1-9. — Soridium Muens, loc. cit., 49,t. 7, 
180. — Becc., Males., III, 329, t. 39-42. — fig. 10-98. 
Aphylleia Cuamr., in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist., 2. Albi, rosei v. rubri, parvi v. minimi. 
