— 17 — 



Journal of Botany tom. 2. p. 408. 409. (1840). J. Lindley Botan. 



Reg. new Series tom. 17. tb. G7. (1844). — J. Steetz iti Lehm. 



Plant. Preiss. tom. I. p. 21 1—220. tom. 2. p. 233. 234. (1844 — 46). 



— - J. Paxton Mag-azin of Botany Tom. 13. p. 53. 54. c. icone. (1847). 



— M. Payer in Annales des sciences natureil. trois. serie. tom. 15. p. 



351 — 359. tb. 20. fig\ 1 — 20. (1851). — Asa Gray in Hook. 



Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany Tom. 4. p. 199. 200. 



(1852). — Steetz Familie der Tremandreen und ihre Verwandtschaft 



zu d. Lasiopetaleen p. 28 etc. (1853). — 

 Charact. Gener. 



Calyx 4 — 5 partitus. Corollae petala 4 — 5, libera cum calycis 

 sepalis alternantia. Praefloratio utrinque longitudinaliler involuta : 

 quodvis petalum marginibus involutis stamina duo involvit. Stamina 

 uniseiiatim ovarinm cingentia, libera, 8 — 10, aequilonga, petalis op- 

 posita. Filamenta compressiuscula crassiuscula vel teretia filiformia; 

 antherae cum filamentis semper continuae, subcylindricae, compres- 

 sae, lateribus dorso et ventre sulcatae, quadriloculares, loculi bise- 

 riales, exteriores interioribus multo majores; antherae superne in tu- 

 bulum ipsis breviorem, vel aequilongum productae; tubulus apice 

 poro terminali, interdum oblique truncato instructus. Pollen siccum 

 subglobosum, triporosum, laevissimum. Ovarium biloculare (in per- 

 paucis speciminibus duarum specierum triloculare) loculis uniovulatis 

 vel interdum biovulatis rarissime triovulatis. Ovula pendula, ana- 

 tropa, integumentis duobus instructa, funiculo brevissimo appensa, rha- 

 phe in appendicem curvatam supra chalazam excrescente instructa. 

 Ovula solitaria in dissepimenti angulo interiore supremo affixa, ovula 

 bina superposita. In loculis triovulatis ovula superiora collateralia 

 sunt. Stylus filiformis et stigma simplex. Capsula obovata vel py- 

 riformis, bilocularis, compressa, loculicide bivalvis, loculis semper 

 monospermis. Semina pendula, oblonga, albuminosa, testa fragili 

 bruneo-nigrescente instructa, utrinque obtusa, appendiculata, arillata; 

 arillus albescens membranaceus pilosus supra appendicem quoque 

 longe excrescens, utriculum longum formans. Albumen carnosum, 

 albescens. Embryo axilis albumine dimidio brevior, rectus, radicula 

 hilum spectans, cotyledones obtusae, incumbentes. — 



Fruticuli graciles, ericoidei vel virgati plus minusve ramosi, vel 

 subsimplices, foliis alternis vel verticillatis, linearibus lanceolatis ses- 

 silibus, vel ovato-lanceolalis, ovatis, vel obovatis, deltoideis bre- 

 vissime petiolatis, rarissime squamaeformibus, integerrimis vel remote 

 dentatis, glabris vel pilosis vel pilis glandulosis, vel setis conspersis, 

 pedunculis gracilibus axillaribus, solilariis vel subverticillatis, unifloris. 

 Flores rubri vel albi sub solis splendore vel diebus serenis aperli, 

 . sed pluvia impendente, primis tenebris et per noctem clausi. 



