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filiformia : antheræ dorso suprà basim aflixæ, mobiles, 2-loculares, 
singulis loculis basi poro dehiscentibus. Sryzus trifidus, iobis sin- 
gulis stigmate terminatis. Ovarrum primüm uniloculare, demüm 
septis inter se coalitis triloculare. Ovura plurima, angulo interno 
loculorumaffixa, linearia , erecta. Capsura calyce filamentisque per- 
sistentibus vestita, 3-locularis, 3-valvis, valvis marginibus intro- 
flexis dissepimenta constituentibus; columna centralis subulata , 
placentifera; singulæ placentæ valvis oppositæ. Semrva in placentis 
plurima , linearia, scobiformia , tegumento membranaceo, tenui , 
utroque fine in alam excurrente. 1 
Arsores mediocres vel raurrces. Forra sparsa, exstipulata, coriacee, 
integra. FLores terminales axillaresque; pedunculi r'vel pluriflori. 
Species 5 brasilienses. 5 
Characteres floris et fructüs in B. ancepiti; seminis ex Mart. et 
Zuec. (Nov. gen. Spec.) 
ARCHITÆA. 
Architæa Mart. et Zucc. 
Cazvx persistens, ebracteatus, 5-partitus , foliolis subæqualibus. 
Perata 5, dectfdua. Sramrva indefinita, in phalanges quinque usquè 
ad medium connata : filamenta apice libera , filiformia : antheræ 
anticæ, biloculares, foculis longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Srvzus 
simplex. Sriema lobatum ?. Ovarrun 5-loculare , loculis bisertratim 
multiovulatis. Capsura calyce staminibusque persistentibus cincta, 
5-locularis, incompletè à basi ad apicem versüs 5-valvis; valvulæ 
coriaceæ , marginibus introflexis dissepimenta constituentes; recep- 
taculum centrale conico-pentagenum, pro quovis loculo placentam 
lineari-lanceolatam , convexam emittens.'Semina plurima in quovis 
loculo, bifariam sursum imbricata, linearia. 
ArguscuLa. Folia fasciculata, penninervia. 
Species unica brasiliensis. 
Genus vix à Bonnetiâ distinctum snisi :staminibus ipentadelphis , 
