NAT. ORDER. 
SarraceniecB. 
SAERACENIA EUBRA. EED SIDE-SADDLE. 
Class XIII. PoLYANDRiA. Order I. Monogynia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx, of five permanent sepals. Leaflets, ovate. Co- 
rolla, five, parted. Clatcs, ovate-oblong, straight. 
Spe. Char. Stamens, numerous. Anthers, simple. Style, cylindri- 
cal, very short. Stigmas, peltate. Seeds, numerous. 
This small p/ani rises fi'om one to tv70 feet high ; the calyx is 
composed of five permanent sepals, vv^hich are concave at the base, 
and furnished with a three-leaved involucmm just under it ; corolla of 
five petals, which are contracted at the base, and unquiculate ; sta- 
mens, numerous, hypogynous, and closely packed together ; ^laments, 
shortish ; anthers, fixed by their back, oblong, two-celled, opening up- 
wards from the base, hardly to the apex ; ovary, one large globose, 
with five longitudinal furrows ; style, columnar, crowned by a broad 
convex, leafy, five-angled stigma ; capsule, globose, crowned by the 
permanent style and stigma, five-lobed, five-celled, five-valved, many 
seeded, valves separating from the apex ; placentas, five, one in each 
cell closely covered with seeds, progressing from the central axis ; 
seeds, small, minutely tubercled ; embryo, cylindrical, cleft at one ex- 
tremity into two catyledons, placed at the base of a copious waxy- 
granular albumen, with the radicle pointing towards the hilum ; the 
seeds are keeled on their under side, inserted by their narrowest point 
upon a large club-shaped, stipitate receptacle, which stands out from 
the central column or axis into the middle of each cell ; the valves of 
the capsule open from above between the cells, whose dissepiments 
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