104 GENRES SAUVAGESIA 
incumbentia , in tubum conniventia, linearia, obtusa, subrétusa, 
subcrenulata, glabra, basi purpurea, apice alba, persistentia, 
externè cincta filis cum iisdem basi coalitis, crebris, uniseriatis, 
setaceis, obscurè purpureis, summo apice clavatis vel angulato-ro- 
tundis aut sæpiüs reniformibus. Sramia 5, cum petalis exterioribus 
interioribusque alternantia, iisdemque breviora , inclusa, erecta, 
persistentia, cum corollà interiore, filisque gynophoro brevissimo, 
vix manifesto inserta : filamenta brevissima, petalorum interiorum 
basibus infernè coalitis : antheræ basi affixæ, immobiles, posticæ, 
lineares , oblongæ, angustæ , 4-gonæ, 2-loculares, apice lateraliter 
dehiscentes. Sryzus terminalis, capillaceus , glaber. Sriema conti- 
nuum, vix manifestè dentatum. Ovariuu glabrum, sub-3-lobum, 
1-loc., polyspermum, gynophoro brevissimo insidens. CapsuLa calyce, 
filis, corolla interiore staminibusque persistentibus cincta , ovato- 
oblonga , acutissima, 5-loba, 1-locularis , ab apice ad medium pau- 
lèque inferius vacua , et per valyvulas 3 dehiscens; valvulis infra 
medium usquè ad basim marginibus introflexis, nec usquè ad cen- 
trum omnind productis, extremitate seminiferis nec revolutis. 
Sema 2-seriata, subgloboso-elliptica , basi mucronulata , eleganter 
favoso-scrobiculata, fusca , glabra : umbilico terminali. Inrecu- 
MENTUM crustaceum. PErISPERMIUM carnosum. Emsryo axilis, rectus, 
teretiusculus : cotyledones obtusæ : radicula ad hilum spectans. 
Crescit in pratis humidis, ad fontes et ripas rivulorum, ct in pa- 
ludibus ; in Mexico (Moncino et Sece ex Gingins de Lassaraz); in 
Cuchero, Pillao, Ischutanam et Papato “Peruvianorum (Ruiz et 
Pav.);in Nové Andalusié propè Caripè et Cumanacoa, item inter 
Mariquita et Real de S. Anna Novo-Granatensium (Humb. ); in 
Caienné et Guay an ( Aub.); in Domingo (Willd.); in Porto-Rico 
(Baudin, in Herb. Jus.); in Jamaïcé, inter Mount-Diable et 
St.-Ann. (Pat. Brown); Martinicé (Jaquin); St.- Thomas (Ledru) ; 
in Surinamo ( Wild. ): inveni in Brasiliä, à faucibus fluminis 
valed Rio-Doce usque ad prædium Jaguarahy ba, in campis quos 
