28 DICOTYL. seu EXOGEN^E. 
Magdalen® (Hinds!). Caules rigiduli, ad nodos tumuli 
Folia subcarnosa, 4-6 lio. longa, involucra florida 
*-S lin. longa, 6-7 lin. lata, tenuiter 1 
margine obscure sinuato-triloba, caete 
folinlo i|tso textura consimilibus. 
Subordo II. POLYGONEjE (1), Juss. gen. p. 82. — Polvgonaceae 
Meisn. gen. p. 316 (227). 
Characteres in conspectu, p. 3, enuntiati. 
Tribus I. PTERYGOCARPJE, Meisn, in Mart. fl. bras. fasc. 14 
Polyg.p. 5. 
Achaenium lenticulare vel 2-4-quetrum, angulis in alam vel cristam 
(saepius echinatam) expansis. Embryo in axi albuminis farinosi rectus. 
Calyx subcorolliuus, demum vix accrescens fructuque multo minor, ra¬ 
nae eum includens. Antherae versatiles. 
Srt)ttll,a S I. CALLWONEM, C. A. Xey*r in Mm. Acad. Snint-PeUrsb. 
6 C sSr. sc. math. et phys, 6, p. m. 
Flores hermaphroditi. Calyi corollinns, 5-partitus. haud accrescens, 
marcescens, sub fructu reflexus, laciniis subaequalibus. Stamina 12-17 
filamentis subulatis Stigmata 4, subsessilia, capitata. Acfcenium 4-solcum 
vel 4-gonum angulis cristato-alatis dentatis vel echinatis vel in membra- 
vesicaeformem coeuntibus. Semen 4-lobnm. - Frutices Asiae 
medi* et occidentalis et Africae borealis, virgati, subaphvlli, glauci ra- 
■asas-s-J» "™ 
S5pi?!aMSR3sSiSS ; 5 
ledon,bus linearibus. - Frutices Africa ^ ^ 
i. fppp anhvrlli . .... 1 * 
dio brevioribus caducis inlern °- 
parvis albis vel roseis, pediXaSSST ean “ n 3x11,5 fasclcu,atis 
«inhnon —^ T . ra ? 8 ' p.t80), actoan’ “ ‘ 
