CONSPECTUS GENERIS NITRARIA, 
AUCTORIBUS 
Comite JAUBERT et Eduardo SPACH. 
Nivrarta, Linn., et Auctorum recentior. (Omnium Charact. 
emend. )} — Jaubert et Spach , ZI, Plant. Orient. , vol. LIT, 
pag. 139. 
Cazyx minutus, carnosus, persistens, inaccrescens, hemisphæ- 
rico-campanulatus, quinquefidus (interdum varians 4-v. 6-fidus), 
cum pedicello articulatus, umbilicatus ; tubus ima basi disco 
mediante ovario adnatus ; lobi subæquales, erecti, subincurvi, 
concavi, submembranaceo-marginati, æstivatione distantes, Dis- 
CUS € calycis fundo ortus, carnosus , crassiusculus , perigynus , 
fauce calycina subincrassatus in annulum irregulariter lobulatum 
petala staminaque excipientem. PeraLA lobis calycinis isomera 
et interposita, disco inserta (ideoque perigyna), decidua, albida, 
cuculliformia, ecarinata, reticulato-venulosa, in unguem brevem 
angustata , apice in rostellum brevissimum truncatum complica- 
tum protracta, æstivatione valvaria marginibus induplicatis, sub 
anthesi patentia v. deflexa. SramiNA 15, ternatim lobis calycinis 
anteposita ( v. interdum variatione 10 geminatim lobis calycinis 
anteposita , aut 11-14 : alia ternatim alia geminatim lobis caly- 
cinis anteposita), perigyna, libera, decidua, glaberrima, petalis 
subæquilonga v. paululo longiora, subinæqualia ( nempe 5 lobo- 
rum. calycinorum axi respondentia reliquis præfloratione saltem 
paululo longiora ), æstivatione recta biserialia et petalorum mar- 
ginibus amplexa. FILAMENTA carnosa, filiformi-subulata. ANTHERÆ 
supra medium affixæ, versatiles (æstivatione introrsæ), dithecæ , 
profunde cordato-subrotundæ , apice bilobæ ; thecis bivalvibus ; 
connectivo nullo. PisriLLum extus undique (exceptis stigmatum 
facie et papillis) sericeo-canescens, sub anthesi staminibus peta- 
lisque brevius. Ovarium ovoideum, trigonum, estipitatum , car- 
nosum, crassum, triloculare, ima basi calycis tubo adnatum , 
