TAB. 34.
DROSANTHE FIMBRIATA, Spach.
D R O S A N T H E , Spach, Hist, des Plantes phan. (in Suites à Puffin), vol. 5. p. 376; id., in Annales des Sciences nat.,
2* série, vol. 5, p. 355,
C alyx ^.partitas, persistais, aeerescens : sepalis serrulatis v. pectinatis, inæqualibus, post
anthesin erectis; lacinulis gland ulosis. Discus receptaculo adnatus, ferè obsoletus. Petal* 5
marceseentia, exappendiculata, obliqua, unguiculata , sub anthesi patentia, plana, dein
conforta, reflexa. Stamina triadelpha, marceseentia Çandrophoris brevibus, i5-3o-andris,
basieum disco confluentibus. F ilamenta capillaria. A nthekæ reniformes v. eordato-subro-
tundæ, dorso infra apicem glandulâ subpellucidâ adnatâ instriiete. G landulæ v. Squamülæ-
hypogynæ nullæ. Ovarium ovoideum, 3-locuIare, 3-stylum, quasi 3-coccum : ovulis anatropis,
inversis, in quovis loculo 8-i5; biseriatjs; placenta pyramidali, brevi, tripartibili, apicé
3-euspidatâ. Styli filiformes, divergentes, subreeti. Stigmata minuta, capitellata. C apsula
ovoidea v. subglobosa, vittulata, 3-loeularis, quasi 3-cocca, mox dehiscems, .septieidè
3-valvis, abortû oligosperma : valvis cymbæformibus, placentâque deciduis; placenta mox
a dissepimentis solutâ, brevi, osseâ, ovoideâ, basi angustatâ, apice tricuspidatâ. Semina
(ex singulâ specie) plus minusvè arcuata, papilloso-velutina, teretia, aptera, inversa;
1NTEGUMENT0 triplici : extimo membranaceq (e papillis juxtapositis erectis liberis subclavatis
constante), medio crustaeeo adhærente; intimo membranaceo, inadhærente, pellucidoi
Embryo semini conformis : radicula tereti, obtusâ, inféra, hilo contiguâ; cotyledonibus
brevissimis, plano-convexis, rotundatis.
Suffrutices : caulibds subcæspitosis, teretibus, alterné bimarginatis, erectis v. adscenden-
tibus, annuis, basibus solùm persistentibus caudices tandèm lignosos (càules floriferos
novellos gignentes) sistentibus. Radix perpendicularis, ramosa, tandèm lignosa. F olia
opposita, sessilia, exarticulata, marceseentia, coriacea, integerrima, vésiculis pellucidis
punctata, glandulis nigris orbata; intima minima; sequentia gradatlm majora; summa sæpè
bracteis similia. Pedunculi axillares terminalesque, in paniculam elongatam (nonnunquàm
racemiformem) dispositi, simplices, v. bifurcati, 3-v. pluri-flori (v. hebetatione 1-2-floriJ,
stricti, angulosi, ad ramificationem 2-bracteati. Pedicelli breves, erecti, pentagoni,
incrassati, modo cymulosi, modo racemoso-secundi : alares nudi ; cæteri ad basin 2-bracteo-
lati. Bracteæ et Bracteolæ opposite, foliaceæ, persistentes, sepalis instar glandulosæ et
pectinatæ v. serrulate. Petala secùs apicem h'inc denticulata : dentibus in glandulam stipita-
tam nigram desinentibus.