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Plate 173, 



GALPHIMIA, Cav, 



Calyx 5-partitus saepissime eglandulosus. Petala 5, cari- 

 nato-costata, denticulata. Stamina 10, omnia fertilia. Styli 

 3, filiformes, in stigma aciitum desinentes. Capsula 3-loba, 

 3-cocca ; coccis 2-valvibus. — Fmtices v. fruticuli integrifo- 

 lii ; floribus racemosis flavis, deinde rubellis. 



Galphimia, Cav. Ic. 5. p. 61. t. 489, 563. H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 5. 



p. 172. DC. Prodr. 1. p. 582. Griseb. in Linnrea, 13. p. 26!). 



Bartl. in Linn®a, 13. p. 550. Adr. Juss. in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. 3. 



p. 70. 1. 178, & Monogr. Malpigh. p. 67. t. 7. Endl. Gen. 5500. 

 Thryallis, Linn. Gen. 533, fide Ad. Juss., non 3Iart. 



Calyx five-parted, herbaceous, persistent ; the segments 

 equal, erect, usually destitute of glands, quincuncially im- 

 bricated in aestivation. Petals 5, longer than the sepals, 

 alternate with them, hypogynous, quincuncially imbricated 

 in asstivation, at length widely spreading or reflexed, unguic- 

 ulate, oblong-ovate or obovate, concave, commonly carinatc 

 with a thickish midrib, which is canaliculate above, pinnate- 

 ly veined, the margins denticulate, deciduous. Stamens 10, 

 hypogynous, five opposite the petals and five alternate with 

 them, all fertile : filaments filiform-subulate from a dilated 

 base, distinct or a little monadelphous, persistent : anthers 

 oval or cordate, pointless, introrse, fixed below the middle, 

 glabrous, two-celled, the cells opening longitudinally. Pistil 

 of three combined carpels : ovary globular, three-lobed, three- 

 celled : styles 3, filiform, distinct, their tips incurved in the 

 bud : stigmas terminal, minute. Ovule solitary in each cell, 

 pendulous from the inner angle near its summit on a slender 

 funiculus, against which it reclines and to a portion of which 

 it commonly adheres, forming a short (internal) raphe, and 

 so becoming semi-anatropous ; the micropylc superior. 



Fruit capsular, thrcc-lobed, tricoccous ; the coriaceous 



