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DiCOTYLEDONEAE POLYPETALAE, FLORIBOS REGDLARIBUS SAEPISSIME HERMAPHRODITIS, SEPALIS 5 , STAMINIBDS
1 0 VEL RARO 5 , FILAMENTIS FILIFORiOBUS BASI SAEPE MONADELPHIS, OBSCURE HYPOGYNIS, CARPIDOS 5 SUPERIS
LIBERIS, 4 SAEPE ABORIENTIBUS, OTULIS 2 ORTHOTROPIS E BASI CARPIDO ADSCENDENTIBUS, UNO SEMPER ABORTIVO,
FRUCTIBUS FOLLICÜLäRIBOS, SEMDÖBUS ALBÜMINOSIS VEL EXALBUMINOSIS. ----- FbVTICES VEL ARBORES PARVAE, SAEPE
SOANDENTES, FOLUS ALTERNIS EXSTIPULATIS TRJFOLIOLATIS VEL IMPARIPINNATIS, FOLIOLIS INTF.aBIS, INFLORES-
0ENTII8 SAEPE PANICULATIS.
F lores s a e p i s s im e h e rm a p h r o d i t i , r e g u l a r e s v e l s u b r e g u l a r e s . C alyx 5 - , r a r o 3 — 4 - f i à u s
v e l p a r t i t u s , s a e p e p e r s i s t e n s , i n t e r d u m a c c r e s c e n s e t f r u c t u s b a s i n v e l s t i p i t e m a m p l e c t e n s , s e p a l i s
im b r i c a t i s v e l v a l v a t i s , s a e p e s u b i n a e q u a l i b u s . P etala 5 , s e p a l i s a l t e r n a , o b l o n g o - l i g u l a t a , l i b e r a
v e l r a r o m a r g i n e e o h a e r e n t i a , im b r i c a t a v e l r a r o v a l v a t a . S t ,uvuna 1 0 v e l r a r o 5 , o b s c u r e
h y p o g y n a , r a r o d e c l i n a t a , a l t e r n a ( p e t a l i s o p p o s i t a ) s a e p i s s im e b r e v i o r a , n o n r a r o im p e r f e c t a ,
FILAMENTIS f il if o T m ib u s b a s i s a e p i u s m o n a d e l p h i s , antidlris p a r v i s d i d y m i s i n t i 'o r s u m d e h i s c e n t i b u s .
D iscus n u l l u s v e l t e n n i s . O vaelv 5 v . r a r i u s 1 — 4 , l i b e r a , h i s p i d a , u n i l o c u l a r i a ; s tyli f i l i f o rm e s ;
stigmata c a p i t e l l a t a , S im p l i c i a v e l b i l o b a . O vula 2 , c o l l a t e r a l i a , e b a s i a n g u l i i n t e r i o r i s c a r p i d i i
a d s c e n d e n t i a , o r th o t i - o p a . C apsula s a e p i s s im e s o l i t a i - i a , f o l l i c u l a r i s , s e s s i l i s v e l s t i p i t a t a , v e n t r e
v e l r a r i u s d o r s o d e h i s c e n s . S emen s o l i t a r i u m , e r e c t u m , i n g e n e r i b u s o m n i b u s n o s t i - i s a r i l l a t u m ;
t e s t a n i t i d a . E mbkyo e x a l b u m i n o s u s c o t y l e d o n i b u s a m y g d a l i n i s , a u t a l b u m i n e c a r n o s o i u s t r u c t u s
e t c o t y l e d o n i b u s f o l i a c e i s ; radícula s u p e r a , r a r i s s im e v e n t r a l i s .
ÁBBORES vel FRUTICES erecd v e l scandenles. F o l i a decidua v. perennantia, alterna, exsäpulata, in
speciebus nostris semper tnifoliolata ve l im p a r i-p in n a ta , fo lio lis coriaceis integerrimis breviter petialulatis
oppositis v e l suboppositis. F l o r e s saepissime in panic tdas axillares et termirudes dispositi, ramulis race-
mosis, spicatis v e l subcymosis, ra ro simpliciter sp ica ti v e l racemosi, P e ta la p a r v a , saepe punctata.
Species circiteì' 1 5 0 , omnes intertropicales, ple raeque Asiaticae.
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