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THALAMIFLOIl’E. 
purple, variegated with yellow, very showy. The 3 outer 
sepals small, roundish, concave, coloured, externally puberulous : 
the 2 inner petaloid, forming the most showy part of the flower, 
clawed, obcordate. The 3 lower petals united into a 3-fid keel, 
with the central lobe the smallest, ciliated, variegated with yel- 
low : the two upper petals small, oblong, gibbons at the base, 
obtuse at the apex, yellow. Stamens 8, monadelphous, with a 
fissure in the tube opposite to the standard, and villoso-ciliated 
along its margin : anthers small. Ovary roundish, compressed, 
gibbous and serioeo-puberulous on one side : style length of 
the stamens, thick, curved: stigma compressed, sub-bilobed. 
Capsule 1-seeded. 
This is a very beautiful shrub. Swartz states that the 
flowers have the smell of the sweet violet, Viola odorata. 
ORDER XXII. CAR YOPH YLLEiE. 
Calycine sepals 4 or (more frequently) 5, free or 
united into a 4-5 toothed tube. Petals correspond- 
ing in number, inserted on a hypogynous disk, alter- 
nating with the sepals, clawed, with the limb entire or 
bifid, seldom awanting. Stamens 2 CC the number of 
the petals, inserted on the disk; one half of them al- 
ternating with the petals and more precocious ; the 
other half opposite and coalescing with them at the 
base : filaments subulate, in some species submona- 
delphous: anthers bilocular, bi-rimose. Ovary in- 
serted on the summit of the disk, 2-5 valved, with a 
corresponding number of styles: styles clavate, dis- 
tinct from the base, stigmatose and papillose on the 
inner surface. Capsule 2-5 valved, united at the 
base, dehiscent at the apex. Seeds co (very seldom 
few or defined in number) : albumen farinose : em- 
bryo in general peripheral, more or less incurved, very 
rarely straight or central : radicle turned towards the 
hi Ium. 
The plants belonging to this tribe are herbaceous or siift'ru- 
ticose: stems nodose : leaves uniformly opposite, often connate, 
entire : flowers terminal. 
