GUTTIFER Æ 
Juss. Gen. 243, pr. p.; Choisy, in Mém. Soc. hist. nat. Paris, I, 210; 
D C., Prodr. I, 557 ; Cambess. in Mém. Mus., XVI, 417 ; et in Saint- 
Hilaire, FI. Bras. merid., 1, 243; Planch. et Triana, Ann. sc. nat., 
4 s., XII-XIV; Benth. et Hook., Genera, 1, 163; H. Baill., Hist. 
plantes, VI; Engler, in Mart., Fl. brasil, CIL; Vesque, Epharmosis, 
II et III. — CrtusracEx Lindl. Zntrod., éd. Il, 74; Veget Kingd., 400; 
Endl. Gen., 1024. 
Dicotyledones dialypetalæ thalamifloræ. Flores dioïci v. polygami 
v. hermaphroditi, nunc ejusdem speciminis juvenis masculi, demum 
grandioris feminei, regulares acyclici v. hemicyclici v. cyclici. Sepala 
2-6 v. numerosa persistentia, imbricata v. per paria decussata, nunc 
bracteis decussatis v. alternis extus stipata, libera v. rarius cohæren- 
tia, calycem clausum demum 2-valvatim fissum sistentia. Petala im- 
bricata, v. contorta v. decussata, rarius nulla. Stamina numerosa in» 
definita, rarius pauciora definita, libera v. varie coalita, sæpe in 
phalanges collecta, omnia fertilia v. exteriora v. interiora sterilia; in 
flore femineo in staminodia antherifera v. ananthera reducta v. nulla. 
Antheræ valde varie. Carpidia 1-o, in gynæceum coalila, toro v. 
disco inserta. Ovarium 2- -loculare, placentatione spurie axili, nune, 
ovulis septis placentiferis insertis, manifeste parietali v. rarius unilocu- 
lare, placenta basali. Stigmata tot quot ovarii loculi, nunc sessilia v. 
subsessilia radiantia v. in unum peltatum coalita, nunc ad apicem 
styli elongati peltato-connata v. in lobos breves radiantia, v. styli dis- 
. tineti. Gynæceum in flore masculo nullum v. minutum, v. ovario 
& PRE ee 
TS s. à 
obsoleto, in stylum et stigma v. stigmata reductum. Fructus sæpius 
` carnoso-coriaceus, nunc indehiscens baccatus v. drupaceus, nunc in 
valvas tot quot loculi septicide v. septifrage dehiscens. Semina crassa, 
. Seepe arillata v. arillodio fulta, testa tenui coriacea v. rarius fungoso- 
incrassata v. rarissime crassa lignosa, exalbuminosa. Embryo semen 
implens, nunc e radicula et tigella crassa constans, cotyledonibus mi- 
 nute squamæformibus v. omnino inconspicuis, nunc cotyledonibus 
- 9 crassis conferruminatis v. vix separabilibus, radicula brevissima 
- infera. - 
^ Pili uniseriati simplices v. ramosi, v. valde reducti unicellulati, - 
-Surte AU Prodromus Vi. 
