Ord. KRAMERIACEiE? 



SufFrutices vel herbce, a Polygalaceis diversas, petalis 3 

 coalitis starainibusque posticis, pistillo simplici iiniloculari 

 2-ovulato, semine ecamnculato exalbuminoso, radicula intra 

 cotyledones crassas recondita ; a Leguminosis Ccesalpinieis, 

 nuUo modo distinctae nisi foliis exstipulatis, staminihus hy- 

 pogynis, anticis dejicientihus. 



Krameriace^, Mart. Consp. p. 44. 



Plate 185, 186. 



KRAMERIA, Loeji., L. 



Char, ut ordinis monotypici. 



Krameria, Loefl. Iter. p. 195. Ruiz & Pav. Prodr. Fl. Peruv. t. 3. 

 Juss. Gen. p. 425, & in Mem. Mus. 1. p. 390. DC. Prodr. 1. 

 p. 341. St. Hil. &. Moq.-Tand. in Mem. Mus. 17. t. 31 & 19. 

 p. 336. St. Hil. Fl. Bras. 2. p. 73. t. 97. Hook. & Am. Bot. 

 Beech, p. 8. t. 5. Torn & Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1. p. 134, & p. 

 671. Endl. Gen. .%56. Benth. PI. Hartw. p. 13. A. Braun in 

 Engelm. «fc Gray, PI. Lindli. not. p. 4. 

 Rliataiiy. 



Calyx of five more or less petaloid and unequal at length 

 deciduous sepals, quincuncially imbricated in asstivation, 

 often oblique or falcate ; one of them (the first) nearly an- 

 terior and often gibbous at the base, and two (the second 

 and fifth) posterior; one of the interior (the fifth) usually 

 smaller than the others, or in some species wanting. Petals 

 5, hypogynous, nuich smaller than the petals and alternate 

 with them, dissimilar, of two forms, the fifth posterior and 

 interior in asstivation ; this and the two lateral approximate 

 on the upper side of the flower, consimilar, unguiculate, 



