TAB. 80.
GAILLONIA CALYCOPTERA, Nob.
G A IL LO N IA , a. Rich.—Confer siiprà, p. 13 8 .
Subgenus PTEROSTEPI1US, Nob.—Confer suprà, p. 140.
GAILLONIA CALYCOPTERA, Nob.—Confer suprà, ibidem.
Spermacoce calyptera, Decaisne! Florula Sinaica, in Annales des Sciences Nat., 2 e sér., vol. 2, p. 267.
Suffrutex-i-i 1/2-pedalis, ramosissimus, erectus, glabriusculus. Radix lignosa, multiceps, crassitiè digiti minoris. Caules
erecti v. adscendentes, lignosi, ferè eximâ basi dichotomi v. trichotomi : vetuli crassitiem pennæ anserinæ æquantes, cortice
testaceo, rugoso. Rami erecti v. erecto-patenfes, teretes, noduloso-articulati : annotini et seniores aphylli, glabri, epidermide
testaceo; novelli dichotomè paniculati (macriores bifurcati v. simplices), subbrachiati, tenues, virides, foliati, florigeni, basi
demùm frutescentes : internodiis infimis foliis brevioribus v. paulo longioribus, papilloso-puberulis, scabris; cæteris glabris
v. glabriusculis, lævigatis, foliis longioribus. Folia 3-i 2 lineas longa, opposita, sessilia, coriacea, crassiuscula, i-nervia, in
sicco glauco-viridia, opaca, subtùs revoluta : infima oblongo-v. lineari-spathulata, obtu.siuscula, exstipulata, vaginulä brevi
connexa; cætera lineari-v. lanceolato-subulata, mucronulata, stipulata; inferiora setulis brevibus (oculo nudo vix conspicuis)
parcis rigidis ciliolata; superiora glaberrima, gradatim minora àt vaginulä altiori connexa ; floralia cum stipulis alte connata
in vaginas 6-8-déntatas. Stipula: triangulares, v. subulaiæ, v. setaceæ, minimæ, v. minutæ, glabræ, membranaceæ, in quovis
jugo utrinquè nùnc solitariæ nùncgeminæ(interdum in unicam bifidam concrctæ) v. raro ternæ, a föliorum margine plus mi-
nusvè remotæ (exceptas florales). Flores spicati, ebracteolati, in quavis vaginâ sæpissimè solitarii, raro gemini oppositi, ex
parte immersi. Spicæ 1/2-2 pollices long», solitariæ, v. geminæ, terminales, simplicissimæ, v. bifurcatæ, v. pluriès et inæ-
qualitèr dichotomæ, strictæ, erectæ, nùnc interruptæ, nùnc densiusculæ. Vaginæ i 1/2-2 lineas longæ (rachidis intemodiis
nùnc longiores ideoque imbricatæ, nùnc bréviores et magis minusvè remotæ), submembranaceæ, albidæ, v. stramineæ, obco-
nicæ, v. campanulalæ,,6-(rariùs 7-v. 8-) dentatæ, rêticulatæ, utrinquè triplinerviæ, glaberrimæ, v. solùm dentium marginibus
puberulæ : dentibus erectis, rigidulis, triangulari-v. lineariAanceolalis, v. triangularibus, acutis, subæqualibus, v. inæquali-
bus (2 nempè oppositis, in vaginis inferioribus haud raro subfoliaceis, interpositis utrinquè geminis v. ternis et. foliorum
floraliüm stipulas referentibus longioribus et latioribus. Caltx circitèr 2 lineas longus ; tubus oblongus, compressiusculus,
vaginâ florali absconditus, ovario adnatus, setulis brevissimis rigidis horizontalibus scabro-puberulus ; limbus superus, per-
sistens, accrescens, membranaceus, bipartitus, jàm sub anthesi vaginam superans, corollæ tubum subæquans : segmenta lan-
ceolata v. oblongo-lanceolata, acuta, striata, ciliolata (cæterô glabra), straminea, v. rufescentia, æqualia, v. subæqualia, oppo-
sita, basi conniventia, supernè divergentia v. subrecurva, sæpissimè integerrima. Variatione ■occurrunt segmenta calycina
utrinquè v. altero latere dente nùnc acuto nùnc obtuso instructa, v. rariùs inæqualiter bifida, v. bine ad medium usque v.
ultrà medium' connata. Corolla 3 lineas longa, albida, decidua, infuridibularis, 4-v. rariùs 5-fida, extùs setulis brevissimis
rigidulis patentibus puberula, intùs glabra; tubus gracilis, rectus, infernè filiformis, supernè' sensim diilatatus; lobi erecti,
subæquales, tubo 40 breviores, lineares, obtusi, apice subcucullati, margine involuti. Stamina 4 v. 5, summâ corollæ fauce
inserta : 2 breviora, vix exserta; 2 v. 3 longiora, corollæ lobisjsnbdimidio breviora. Filamenta capillaria, glabra : minora
brevissima; majora antheris subduplö longiora. Antheræ æquales, versatiles, dorso affixæ, cordato-ovales, obtusæ. Stylus
deciduus, capillaris, rectus, corollâ paulo brevior, glaber. Stigmata filiformia, obtusa, breviuscula, subrecurva, suprà papil-
losa, subtùs lævigata. Fructus cum alis 3-4 - lineas longus, nigricans, scabro-puberulus, oblongus, subteres, apice dipterus :
alæ ferè lineam latæ, mericarpiis subtriplö longiores, vaginam conspicuè superantes, membranaceæ, tandem dcciduæ; meri-
carpia minuta, dorso convexa, facie plauiuscula v. subinvoluta, maturitate a carpophoro persistente decidua; carpophorum
et semen generis (confer suprà, p. 14a)— [Exam. s. sp.)
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