BALSAMIFLUiE.
AMENTACEORUM GENUS Juss. GEN.PL.P. 4io. —Spreng. JJILEIT.
ZUR KENNTJI. DER GEW. 11, P. 35o. — Ejusd. SYST.
FEG. />.///, 761.
CONIFERARUM GEN. Spreng. ANLEIT. II, /j. 214. — Ejusd. SJST.
VEG. ILL, P. 768.
CUNONIACEIS? QFFIN. Runtii SYN. PI IF, P. 265.
MYRICEARIIM? GEN. A. Richard in DIET, CLASS, D'/TIST. NAL.
XL P. 382.
FAM. NOVA INTER SALICINEAS CT PLALANCAS TH. FR. Nees ab
Esenr. PLANT, MEDIC. FASC. XVIII.
CHARACTER DIFFERENTIALIS :
Flores apeUll, congesti in amenta unisexunlia sub-globosa
vcl conica.
Mascult : ANTHERCE numerosce, oblongcc, didymEC, subsessiles,
absque calyce, squamulis paucis minuLis
coniinistic, atque receptaculum commune tegentes.
FiiMiNEi : Oc«77abi locularia, stylis duobus elongatis terminata,
singula cincta caiyce parvo ex squamulis ni
seriem simpUcem digestis conflato, conglobala.
Fructus : PSEUDO-STROBILUS, compositus e squamulis coahtis
indiu-atis, in quarum alveolis CAPSULOS obconicfc, biiobic,
biloculares, inter stylos apice hianles nidulantur.
¿^m/'/ia mul ta, ycI aborlu solitaria, compressa, membranaceo
alata, inlus disscpimentorum medio sub-peltatim
afTixa. EMBRYO albuminosus, dicotyledoneus, inversus.
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