98 GENRES SAUVAGESIA 
terminalis. PerisPermom carnosum. Emwprvo rectus, axilis : radicula 
ad umbilicum spectans, cotyledonibus longior. 
Surrrurices glaberrimi, rarissimè herbæ. Forza simplicia, bre- 
vissimè petiolata, aut rard planè sessilia. Srrpuzx laterales, geminæ, 
ciliatæ, persistentes. FLores axillares, aut racemosi terminales et 
tunc bracteati, albi vel rosei aut subviolacei. PrærLoraTio contorta. 
1. SAUVAGESIA RACEMOSA Ï (1). 
S. caule suffruticoso, subsimplici; foliis oblongo-ellipticis vel 
ovato-ellipticis aut ovatis, acutiusculis, dentatis; stipularum ciliis 
crispis ; racemo terminali, subsimplici; laciniis calycinis acutis, 
corollà brevioribus ; filis numerosis. 
Ranix fibrosa.Caurissuffruticosus,sesqui-2-pedalis,simplexautrard 
ramosus,.erectus, glaber. Forr4 alterna, stipulata, subsessilia, 8-15 1. 
longa , oblongo-elliptica vel ovato-elliptica aut ovata, acutiuscula, 
dentata,utrinque margine calloso-elevata, subcoriacea, glabra ; nervo 
medio proeminente; venislateralibus approximatis,parallelis.Sriruzx 
laterales, geminæ, lineari-lanceolatæ, acutæ, striatæ, marginibus 
membranaceæ, laciniato-ciliatæ; ciliis crispis. Racemi terminales, 
sæpius simplices, rard basi compositi , sessiles, vel breviter pedun- 
culati. Frores pedicellati, bracteati, r-6 in axillis bractearum : brac- 
teæfoliis conformes, stipulatæ, a basi racemi usquè ad apicem grada- 
tm minores, interdüm nullæ. Penicezr inæquales, filiformes, recti, 
glabri. Carvx profundè 5-partitus, subinæqualis, patulus, in fructu 
clausus , rubescens vel subviolaceus ; laciniis ovatis, acutis, margine 
membranaceis, breviter acuminatis. Perara exrerrora 5, hypogy- 
na,cum divisuris calycinis alternantia, iisdemque longiora , patula, 
recurva, obovata, acutiuscula, latè unguiculata, integerrima, 
glaberrima, carnea vel rosea , decidua. PErara inreriora 5, erecta, 
marginibus incumbentia , in tubum conniventia, ovato-oblonga vel 
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