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Plate 146. 



KALLSTROMIA, Scop. 



Calyx 5 - 6-sepaliis persistens. Filamenta 10-12, nnda. 

 Ovarium 10- 12-loculare ; loculis uniovulatis. Friictus 10 - 

 12-coccus ; coccis ab axi stylifero persistente secedentibus, 

 monospermis, indehiscentibns. Embryo exalbuminosiis : co- 

 tyledones axi contrarias. — HerbcE Tribuli facie. 



Kallstromia, Scop. Introd. p. 937. Wight &, Arn. Prodr. Ind. Or. 1. 

 p. 145. Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1. p. 213. Endl. Gen. 6031. 

 Tribcli Sp., Linn., Jacq., etc. 



Ehrenbergia, Mart. Nov. Gen. & Sp. Bras. 2. p. 72. t. 163. 

 HETERozycis, Bunge, Vers. Altai. Pflan. p. 82, fide Endl. 



Calyx of five or six lanceolate or subulate sepals, scarcely 

 united at the base, imbricated in asstivation, persistent. Pe- 

 tals 5 or 6, obovate or obcordate, spreading, hypogynous, 

 larger than the sepals, imbricated or convolute in aestivation, 

 deciduous. Stamens 10 or 12, hypogynous ; those opposite 

 the petals exterior, more or less adnate to their base, and 

 separating with them ; the alternate ones (opposite the se- 

 pals) smaller, subtended by a gland at their base externally : 

 filaments subulate-fiHform, naked (destitute of a scale): 

 anthers introrse, two-celled, the cells opening longitudinally. 

 Ovary sessile, ten - twelve-celled, the cells twice as many 

 as the sepals, destitute of transverse septa : style columnar 

 or subulate from a conical base : stigma subcapitate, thick, 

 vertically Xaw - tv/elve-grooved. Ovules solitary in each 

 cell and pendulous from its inner angle, anatropous or semi- 

 anatropous, the micropyle superior. 



Fruit pyramidal and angled, muricate or roughened ex- 

 ternally, separating at maturity into ten or twelve bony and 

 indehiscent one-seeded cocci, leaving a thick and persistent 

 styliferous central axis. Seed filling the cells, obovate ; the 

 testa membranaceous. Albumen none. Embryo conformed 



