NITRARIA TRIDENTATA, Desf.
NITRARIA, Linn., et Auctarum recentior. (Omnium Charact. emend.)
C a l y x minutus, carnosus, persistens, inaecrescens, hemisphierioo-campanulatus, quinque-
fidus (interdum varians 4-G-fidus), cum pedicello articulates, umbilicatus; tubus ima basi
disco mediante ovario adnatus; lobi snbsequales, erecti, subincurvi, concaci, submembra-
naceo-marginati, sestivatione distantes. Discus e calycis fundo ortus, carnosus, crassiuSculus,
pengynus, fauce calycina subincrassatus in annulum irregulariter lobulatum petala stamina-
que exeipientem. P e t a l a lobis calycinis isomers e t interposita, disco inserta (ideoque peri-
gyna), decidua, albida, cuculliformia, ecarinata, reticulato-venulosa, in unguem brevem an-
gustata, apice in rostellum brevissimum truncatum complicatum protracta, asstivatione
val varia marginibus induplicatis, sub anthesi patentia v. deflexa. S t am in a i 5 , ternatim lobis
calycinis anteposita (v. interdum variatione io , geminatim lobis calycinis anteposita, aut 11-
i 4 : alia ternatim alia geminatim lobis calycinis anteposita), perigyna, libera, decidua, glaber-
rima, petalis subsequilonga v. paululo longiora, subinsequalia (nempe 5 loborum calycino-
rum axi respondentia reliquis prsefloratione saltern paululo longiora), mstivatione recta
biserialia et petalorum marginibus amplexa. F il am e n t a carnosa, filiformi-subulata. A nthe r a ;
supra medium affixas, versatiles (aestivatione introrsse), dithecse, profunde coidato-subro-
tundae, apice bilobae; thecis bivalvibus; connective nullo. P is t il lum extus undique (excep-
tis stigmatum facie et papillis) sericeo-canesoens, sub anthesi staminibus petalisque brevius.
O v a r ium ovoideum, trigonum, estipitatum, carnosum, crassum, triloculare, ima basi calycis
tubo adnatum, sursum in s t y lum crassum conico-columnarem trigonum accrescentem locu-
lis subaequilongum angustatum. Dissepimenta carnosa, in axim centralem confluentia, cum
angulis ovarii alternantia, in fructu ex toto obliterata. O vul a in quovis loculo solitaria, ad
anguli centralis apicem funiculo elongate pendulo mediante affixa, eloculorum fundo quasi
assurgentia, fere atropa v. incomplete anatropa : chalaza nempe basilari, micropyle ter-
minali, funiculo aut paulosupra chalazam autsecus ovuli medium inserto; lulus axis respectu
extrorsus! S t igm a t a 3 , terminalia, marcescentia, subovata, carnosa, crassiuscula, obsolete
trigona, (dorso convexa, facie subcarinata), marginibus dense papilloso-verrucosa, arete
conniventia (unde obiter visa stigma unicum crassum subcapitatum referunt). — Variatione
speciebus omnibus occurrit pistillum ovario tetragono quadriloculari stigmatibus 4. ___
F ructus o v a t o - v . c o n ic o - p y r am id a tu s , c o lo r a tu s , t r ig o n u s ( in t e r d um v a r ia n s t e t r a g o n u s ) ,
d r u p a c e u s , a b o r t u u n i lo c u la r i s m o n o s p e rm u s , s t igm a t ib u s em a r c id is um b o n a tu s , u n a c um
c a ly c e em a r c id o v ix c o n s p ic u o d e c id u u s . E p ic a r p ium ls e v ig a tum ( in v iv o ) . S ar co car p ium p u l-
p o sum . P y r e n a c o n fo rm i s , o s s e a , c r a s s a , v a r ie a n f r a c tu o s a , a p ic e d em um in d e n t e s 6 ( a lte rn e
lo n g io r e s e t b r e v io r e s ) s u b u la to s f i s s i l is ; s t r a t a in t im o c r u s ta c e o , d em um a p a r t e o s s e a s o lu to .
S em en lo c u lo b r e v iu s , c r a s s um , c o n ic um , o b tu s iu s c u lum , o b s o le t e t r ig o n u m , in ad hm r e n s , o b
(u n ic u lum d em um o b l i t e r a tu m in lo c u lo l ib e r u m , e x a lb um in o s um ; in t e g u m e n to c h a r t a c e o ,
ls e v ig a to , a lb id o . C h ala za- m a g n a , n i g r a , b a s i la r is , s u b o r b ic u la r is . E mrryo s em in i c o n fo rm is ,
r e c tu s , 2- v . 3 - c o ty le d o n e u s , a n t i t r o p u s , c r a s s u s , c a r n o s u s ; radkula c o n ic o - c o lum n a r is , o b tu -