basi cincti bracteâ minuta, adnatâ, semiovatâ, concavâ, sub-cupuliformi, inte-
gerrimâ yel exigue denticulatâ, sub lente glanduloso-punctatâ, hermaphroditi.
A ntheræ coalitæ in massam ovatam, latam, semitrifidam, carnosam, extra
conyexam, intus sub-coneayam, lacteam, ante lapsum in flavum migrantem,
quæ oyarium occultât, et in hujus ipsius dorso margini s. gibberi y ix prominulo,
semieireulari, camoso inseritur; laciniæ breyes, semiovatæ, acutiusculæ : intermedia
lateralibus paullo elongatior acutiorque, infra apioem latere interno bilo-
cularis, laterales contra uniloculares : loculis omnibus latere laciniarum interno
margini sat approximatis, secus longitudinem adnatis, polline flayicante sub-
globoso refertis.
Ovarium * sessile, paryulum, ovato-globosum gibbereve dorsali prope dimi-
diato-oyato-globosum, sursum quidpiam attenuatum, intus oyulo su!) oblique
suspenso. Stigma sessile, obtusum, depresso-emarginatum.
D rupa sub-baccata, oyalis, superne sub oblique truncata, stigmatis cicatrice
planâ, rostellatâque condecorata eminentiâ, ex margine insertionis staminum
pedetentim assurgente obortâ., ad basin bracteâ persistente suffulta. Pericardium
tenuiusculum, extrinsecus læyigatum, decolor aut Stramineum, intus sub-
camosum, nuculam undicpie arctissimeque circumvolvens. Receptaculum nuculæ,
apice suo superiore pericarpio arctius adhærentis, proprium nullum. Nucula
elliptico-globosa, superne, et magis adbuc ad basin, in acumen breyissimum
desinens, putamine tenui-, fragili, flavido-fuscâ., extus sub-fibrosâ, monosperma.
Semen nuculæ conforme, ejusdemque putamen ex asse explens, testâ. (peri-
spermo Rich.) simplice, tenuissimâ, membranaceâ, albumen quam arctissime
inyestiente, pallide flayicante, ad seminis portionem superiorem paululum cras-
siore et dilute fuscà. Albumen camosum, lacteum. Embryo obscure dicotyledo-
neus, albuminis basin oeeupans, erectus, minutissimus, carnosus, oboyatus
yel quasi cordatus, portione nempe superiore cotyledonaceâ latiori per sinum
planum emarginatus, versus radiculam yero nonnibil attenuatus. Cotyledones
fere inconspicuæ, tantummodo superne per sinum indigatatæ, breyissimæ, obtu-
sissimæ, camosæ, crassæ. Radicula cotyledonibus major, cum iisdem continua,
crassa, obconica, basin versus acutiuscula, inféra.
E X P L IC A T IO T A BÜ LÆ .
Ramus Chloraktei officinalis florihus frucUbusijue ornatus; magn. nat.
Fig. I. Portio spiculas, cujus flores partim genilalilus masculis instruct!, partim iisdem jam orbati
sunt; auct.
* Flos ovario abortivo.
Fig. a. Flos bracteä basilari denudatus, massa antherarum adbuc ovaru dorso mhaerente ; auct.
* Ovario— rarissime quidem-—abortivo, anthera, itidem plus minus deformala , ex mlenon
bracteæ angulo, proximê rachin, escendit, utut monstrat flo's, sub Fig. i *, Tab. I , depictus.
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