78 CLASS. IV. TETRANDRIA. 
363- DORSTENIA, (DORSTENE , Contrayer- 
va) pluri» linn, juss. lari. tab. 83 . ( urticata ~) *). P*.e- 
ceptaculum commune concavum squamosum, tectum 
floribus sessilibus, interdum monoicis ; calyx quatran- 
gulus; corolla nulla ; sporae solitariae, pulpae recepta- 
culi immersae. — (Receptaculum commune carno- 
sum, nunc angulosum , nunc rotundatum, antrorsum 
elevatum vel ventricosum , deorsum planum, circum- 
circa septum squamis minimis, acutiusculis ; interna 
receptaculi superficies repleta flosculis , quorum discoi- 
dei sunt feminei, radii mascula organa habent. Flores 
masculi in proprio calyce tetraphyllo , receptaculo quasi 
insculpto ; corolla his propria , filamenta brevissima , an- 
theiifera ; flores feminei eodem modo constituti ; pistilla 
. duo, solitaria in ovario ; stigmata rotundata: haec 
PAIVA. Cf. wewdland apud hoemerum Arch. I, p.5l. 
tab. PAIVA nec non sprengelius e classe quarta in 
vigesimam tertiam hoc genus referri jubent.) (Trun- 
ci elongatio herbacea: folia radicalia petiolata; invo- 
lucra solitaria ad trunci partem foliis denudatam. 
364. COMETES, (COMETE) I 3 URRM. LIVN. 
juss. lam. tab. 7 fi- C ex ordine plantt. indeterminato). 
Involucrum tetraphyllum, foliolis aequalibus ciliato villo- 
sis, triflorum; calyx tetraphyllus foliolis aequalibus; 
corolla nulla ; stigmata tria > capsula tricocca, trispora. 
365. CANSIERA, ( CANSIERE ) roxb, — Calyx 
globoso urceolatus; quaxridentatus, inferus; nectanly - 
mata dentata, ovarium cingentia J bacca monospora, 
JUS8IEU. 
X/, Flore incompleto , supero „ 
,/« v; , . . - . K . • - - r~-X i _« *' *.' ♦ 
366. GONOCARPUS, ( GONOCARPE) tjiunb, 
juss. lam. tab. 73, GONATOCARPUS schree. willd, 
( ex 
*) Vid, Mannel Jong, Henri de Paiva , med. pract, Usboac 
1750, ti Memorias de historia natural, (( 
