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430 ON THE FEMALE ELOVVER AND FRUIT OF

��Apodanthes, PoifeaiL

Char. Gex. Perianfhiuui monopbylluin 4-tiduiii, bi- bracteatum.

Peiala ipso ovario (altius quam periantliium quod tex- tura diversum) inserta.

Mas

Fem. Ovarium semisuperum.

Pericardium carnosuni, cavitate tetragona.

Seviina: testa nucamentacea lacimosa (funiculo imcleum sequantev. siiperante).

247] Apodanthes Casearle, Poiieaii in AnnaL des Sc. Nat, iii, p. 422, tab. 26, fig. 1.

Loc. Kat. Guiana gallica, in caulibus Caseariae spec, macroplivllae, Falil, proxiiUcC. Poiteau, v. in sp. vin. asserv. in Mus. Paris.

PiLO style s, Guillem in .

Frost ia, Bert. inecL et Bndl. gen. n. 725. Char. Gen. Periantliium 4-partitun], supenun. Petala textura fere perianthii et bractearum. Ovarium cavitate infra insertionem bractearum superior inn producta.

Pericarj)ium cavitate absque angulis.

Pilostyles (Berteiui) bracteis sepalisque ovato-oblongis niargine nudis, stigniate papuloso apice depresso-um- bilicato I

Pilostyles Berterii, Guillem. in AnnaL JSc. Nat. ser. 2, vol. ii, p. 21, tab. 1.

Apodanthes Berterii, Gardn. in Boole. Ic. new ser. vol. iii, tab. 655, A.

Zoo. Nat. Chili, Bertero et Bridges, in Adesniiis para- sitica, V. s.

P. (Blanchetii) bracteis sepalisque subrotnndis margin ciliatis 1 stigmate apice convexo.

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