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364 HISTOIRE DES PLANTES.transverse undulatis reduplicato-valvatis, ima basi vix connatis.Corollae infundibularis tubus tenuis; limbi campanulati lobis integrisv. sub-3-dentatis, tortis. Stamina 5, nisi ima basi libéra (Plumbaginis).Germen apice attenuatum; stylo gracili, apice in ramos 5 introrsumdite papillosos diviso. Fructus calyce inclusus, basi circumcissus eta basi 5-valvis. — Frutices v. suffrutices; ramis rigidulis; foliisalternis integris, aut petiolatis, aut cordato-amplexicaulibus; infîorescentiaterminali composite racemiformi; pedicellis brevibus persistentibus; bractea bracteolisque parvis. (India, Arabia, Africa austr, d )II. STATICE^.3. statice L. — Flores regulares; calyce plerumque infundibulari;tubo 5-10-costato; costis superne per paria coalitis; limbo scariosoreduplicato-plicato ; plicis extus prominulis induplicatis; costis inaristas 5 excurrentibus ; nunc ad cristas plumosas v. ad mucronesrecurvos reductis. Petala 5, basi attenuata ibique in tubum breveminter se et cum staminum basibus incrassato-glandulosis connata,nunc altius in tubum coalita; limbi lobis tortis obovatis v. 2-fidis.Stamina 5, oppositipetala; filamentis nisi ima basi liberis gracilibus;antheris introrsis, 2-rimosis. Germen liberum, 1-loculare, 5-gonum;stylis ad angulos liberis v. basi breviter connatis, mox liberis, apicecapitatis v. inflato-reniformibus, nunc oblique oblongis v. minimis etsuperne longitrorsum papillosis; ovulo Plumbaginis. Fructus calyceinclusus siccus membranaceus indehiscens, v. vertice indurato cumstylis deciduo, v. nunc varie ruptilis. Semen e placenta lateraliterlibéra dependens; albumine parco v. copioso ; embryone axili v.excentrico longitudine aequali. — Herbae annuae v. saepius perennesv. suffrutices plus minus erinacei; foliis basilaribus rosulatis v. altiusalternis, nunc ad squamas parvas reductis, saepius membranaceisplanis, integris v. sinuato-pinnato-pinnatifidis dissectisve, v. (Armeriastrum)confertis rigidis lincari-subtriquetris acerosis v. spinescentibus;floribus secus scapos simplices v. plus minus ramosos, teretesv. alatos, in cymas dispositis paucis; bracteis cymas subtendentibus1. Spec. 2. WIGHT, Icon,, l. 107.".. — HARV., Fl. brit. Ind., III, 481. — Boiss., Fl or., IV,Thés, cap., I. 198. — C.-B. CLKE, in Hook. f. 876. — DALZ., Bomb. Fl, 220.