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GENUS II. ORYGIA. 
Teosandria Pentagynia. Sex; Syst: 
Deriv. The Arabic name latinized. 
Gen. Cuar. Herbaceous or suffruticose plants : calyx 5-parted, 
persistent: petals numerous: ovary free, 5-celled, with several 
ovules in each eell: styles 5, filiform, recurved: capsule papery, 
globose, 5-furrowed: seeds numerous, somewhat kidney-shaped : 
testa crustaceous, furrowed. 
(1) O. rrtanrHEMorpEs, (£ndl.) 
Ident. Wight's Ill. II. p. 44. be 
Syn. Glinus trianthemoides, Heyne. W. § A. prod. 1. p. 362, 
Engrav. Wight’s Ill. TI. t. 113. 
Spec. Cuan. Herbaceous, diffuse: leaves alternate, cuneate-ob- 
‘ovate, rounded, mucronate: panicles lax, axillary, leaf-opposed, 
dichotomously racemose: calyx-segments ovate, cuspidate, mem- 
branaceous on the margin, spreading: petals numerous, from spath- 
‘ulate to lanceolate, entire: style and stigma filiform : capsule smooth 
and shining externally, splitting from the apex: flowers purplish. 
Bellary. 
ORDER LXXIII. PARONYCHIACEZ. 
: Herbs or undershrubs: leaves opposite or alternate, entire, 
with scarious stipules: sepals 5, distinct or cohering: petals 
usually small, sometimes wanting: stamens perigynous or hypo- 
gynous, opposite the sepals when equal to them in number, some 
occasionally wanting: filaments distinct: anthers 2-celled : 
ovary free: styles 2 or 3, distinct or partly combined: fruit 
1-celled, either a utricle or a 3-5-valved capsule: seeds numer- 
ous upon:a central placenta, or solitary and pendulous from a 
cord arising from the bottom of the fruit: embryo lying on one 
‘side of mealy albumen, more or less curved. 
GENUS I. POLYCARPRA. 
Pentandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Polys, many, and Karpos, fruit. 
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