SARRACENIACEiE. 107 



Plate 45, 46. 

 SARRACENIA, Tourn. 



Calyx 3-bracteolatus, 5-sepalus. Petala 5. Stylus um- 



braculifer, persistens. Capsula 5-locularis. — Scapus ebrac- 



teatus, uniflorus. 



Sarracena, Tourn. Inst. p. 657. t. 476. 



Sarracenia, Linn. Gen. 885. Mill. Ic. t. 241. Bart. Elem. Bot. t. 1. 



Nutt. Gen. 2. p. 10. Croom, in Ann. Lye. New York, 4. p. 98. 



t. 6. Torr. & Gray, Fl. 1. p. 58. Endl. Gen. 5023. 

 Coilophylldm, Morison, Hist. p. 533. 

 Bucanaphyllum, Pluk. Aniallh. t. 376. f. 5, 6. 



Side-saddle Flower. Trumpets. 



Calyx calyculate at the base by three small coriaceous 

 bractlets, quincuncially imbricated in aestivation : sepals 5, 

 ovate, coriaceous, colored (dull purple or yellowish), spread- 

 ing, persistent. Petals 5, hypogynous, alternate with the 

 sepals, broadly unguiculate, the obovate lamina concave- 

 connivent over the pistil, imbricated in aestivation, decidu- 

 ous. Stamens indefinite, hypogynous in several series, de- 

 ciduous : filaments filiform or subulate : anthers oval, fix- 

 ed by the middle, introrse ; the chartaceous cells opening 

 longitudinally down the inner face : pollen simple. Ovary 

 globular, five-lobed, five-celled (the cells opposite the se- 

 pals): the style columnar from its umbilicate summit, ex- 

 panded at the apex into -a very large and petaloid five-lobed 

 and five-rayed umbrella-shaped body which covers the ovary 

 and stamens, the five slender rays terminating in the emargi- 

 nate lobes (alternate with the petals), and stigmatose at their 

 indexed apex underneath. Ovules very numerous, covering 

 the dilated placenta which projects from the axis into each 

 cell, anatropous. 



Capsule protected below by the persistent calyx and 

 above by the umbrella-shaped persistent style, globular, cori- 

 aceous, umbilicate, five-lobed, five-celled, loculicidally dehis- 



