Fam. IV. Aurantiaceae. 



Correa in Ann. Mus. VI. 376. — Blirb. in Bull. de la soc. philom. 1813. 379. — DC. Prodr. 



I. 535. — G.Don. gen. syst. I. 582. — Bartl. Ord. nat. 392. — Lindl. Introd. ed. 2. 105. — 

 Meisn. gen. pl. vasc. 46. (34.) — Spach. hist. nat. des Veg. phanerog. (Nouv. suites a Buif.) 



II. 248. — Wight. & Walk.-Arn. (W. & A.) Prodr. FI. Penins. Ind. or. I. 90. — Endl. gen. 



pl. 1043. Ench. bot. 547*). 

 Aurantiorum sect. 2. Jass. gen. 260. 

 Hesperidcarum sect. 2. Vent. Tahl. III. 154. 



Cliaracter famillae. 



Flores hermaphroditi vel rarissime abortu unisexiiales , polygami, per- 

 fecti, regulares. 



Calyx libei", brevis, urceolatus vel campanulatus, 4-5- (rarissime 3)-fidus 

 V. dentatus, interdum subintegerrimus, laciniis aestivatione imbricatis, 

 marcescens. 



Corolla pleiopetala, hypogyna: petala calycis laciniis numero aequalia 

 et alterna (interpositiva Sp.) , 4-5, rarissime 3, ad basin tori brevis- 

 sime stipitiformis, rariusve in discum (annularem) inserta, exungui- 

 culata, libera vel interdum inferne cohaerentia, aestivatione raarginibus 

 leviter imbricata et calyce longiora, plana v. carinata, sub anthesi 

 erecta v. patentia, decidua. 



iStamina disco hypogyno inserta, petalorum numero aequalia>vel dupla, 

 iisdem alterna et opposita, vel multipla, uniseriata. Filamenta libera, 

 vel basi aut ad mediura usque in tubum connata (monadelpha), in po- 

 lyandris saepe poiyadelpha, basi plerumque dilatata, plana, apice 

 (semper libera) lineari-subulata, rarissinie subfornicato-concava, su- 

 perne attenuata, aequalia vel alterna breviora. Antlierae introrsae, 

 biloculares, imo vel medio dorso insertae (basifixae v. juxta-basifixae 

 Sp.), erectae v. incumbentes, loculis parallelis oppositis contiguis rima 

 longitudinali dehiscentibus ; connectivo cumfilamento articulato, saepe 

 apice glanduloso. 



Ovarium liberum, toro saepe substipitiformi insidens, interdum ejusdem 

 margine discoideo cinctum, 5-multiloculare, loculis nempe calycis laciniis 

 numero aequalibus v. paucioribus, rarius pluribus. Ovula loculorum 

 angulo centrali insertaj nunc solitaria, nunc geniina collateralia vel 

 superposita, nunc plura^ biseriata, saepissime pendula, rarius horizon- 

 talia, anatropa. Stylus terminalis, indivisus, crassiusculus, cylindricus 

 v. conicus, distinctus v. ovario continuus. l§tigma crassum, plus minus 

 capitatum , indivisum v. crenulatum v. obsolete lobatum. 



Fructus (Hesperidium Desv., Aurantium DC, Bacca Endl. & Sp.') 

 siccus V. carnosus , cortice (indusio DC , epicarpio endocarpio adhae- 

 rente Sp.) crasso, evalvi, indehiscente, verosimiliter pro toro continuato 

 habendo, glandulis punctiformibus convexis v. concavis consperso, endo- 



*) In generibus et speciebus definiendis hi auctorcs sequenti modo abbreviati citabuntur: 

 DC. I. c. — G.Don. 1. c. — Sp. 1. c. — »F. & A. I. c. 

 Wlld. Sp. pl. = Willdenow Spec. plant. 

 Sprg. S. V. = Sprengel Syst. Veg. 

 R. Sch. — Roemer & Schultes Syst. Veg. 



