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ribus solitariis, eymosis v. breviter racemosis; pedunculo bracteifero
v. rarius foliifero; braçtea nunc stipuliformi. (Orbis latins reg. ealid.
et te m p. ')
II. NEPENTHE^].
4. Repentîtes L.— Flores diœci; receptacuio convexo. Sepala
plerumque 4, intus glandulosa, 2-seriatim imbricata, v. exteriora valvata,
nunc in flore fœmineo basiconnata. Stamina 4-20; antheris co
lumnœcentralis subapiceinsertis, 1-v. rarius sub-2-seriatis, extrorsis,
2-locularibus, 2-rimosis. Germen liberum, stepius 4-gonum ; stylo
brevissimo discoideo, integro v. 4-lobo ; lobis nunc 2-lobulatis papilligeris.
Germinis loculi sœpius 4, oppositisepali, completi v. sœpius
incompleti ; ovulis x , adscendentibus anatropis. Fructus capsularis
coriaceus, ssepius 4-gonus, loculicidus; valvis coriaceis, medio
seminigeris. Semina adscendentia, imbricata ; testa membranacea
utrinque v. ad chalazam in alam angustam v. in caudam producta,
nunc raro (Anourosperma) exappendiculata ; embryone in axi albuminis
carnosi recto; cotyledonibus linearibus. — Frutices v. suffrutices ssepe
sarmentosi cirrhorumque petiolarium ope plerumque scandentes;
foliis alternis exstipulatis; petiolo inferne v. usque ad basin in laminam
foliaceam dilatato, altius nudo ibique cirrhoso ; limbo in ascidiam
intus glandulosam et lympham secernentem mutato ; lobo ejus
terminali in operculum mutato ; floribus in racemum simplicem,
nunc spiciformem, v. compositum, dispositis, in axilla bractearum
solitariis, 2-nis v. cymulosis. (Asia trop., Oceania ealid., A frira or
trop, insul.) — Vid. p. 7.
1. Spec. ad 200. KL., in Monatsb. Akad. Beii. VI, 207. — Boiss., FI. or., IV, 1075. — GREN.
(1859), 583, t. 2. — DUCHTRE, in Ann. se nat., et GODR., FI. de Fr., III, 72. — Bol. Mag.,
sér. 4. Il, 29, t. 5, 6; in DC. Prodr., XV, p. I, t. 3640, 3756, 3709, 4120, 4221,4301,4308,
433. — CHAM. et SCHLCHTL, in Linnœa, VII, 43G9, 4467, 4918, 5295, 53i5, 570(1, 5756,5869,
t. 5, 6. — GRISEB., FI. brit., W.-lnd., 29J ; 5880, 0007, 0387, 0586. — WALC,Ann., I, 593;
Symb. FI. argent., 148. — BENTII., FI. Austral., III, 334.