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196 CHLOKIS MELVILLIANA.

��14. PARRY A ARCTIC A.

��Parrya, siliquis lineari-oblongis, antlieris ovalibiis, foliis (fere omnibus) integerrimis, pednnculis glaberriniis.

Desc. Ilerha humilis, perennis, glaberrima. BadLv perpendicularis, crassa, sublignea, striis trans versis tenuibus notata, saepe multiceps. Caulcs brevissimi, dense foliati. Folia petiolata, lanceolata passimve spatliulato-lanceolata, integerrima, nonnulla rarissime paucidentata, crassiuscula, opaca, immerse uninervia, venis alte immersis inconspicuis. Petioli dimidio superiore angusto lineari textura laminae, inferiore dilatato semivaginanti scarioso albicanti. Scapus caiilem abbreviatum terminans vel saepe axillaris, aphyllus, ebracteatus, glaberrimus, florifer foliis saepe duplo fructifer triplo — qiiadniplove longior. Mores corymbosi, peduncnlis patentibus glaberriniis. Calyx glaber, modice patens, deciduns : sepala ovalia, obtusa, concava, insertione parimi inaequalia, immerse nervosa, nervis passim oblique connexis. Fetala quatuor, asqualia, unguiculata, purpurea, rarius alba, calyce duplo longiora ; migues lineares ; lamince obovatse, uninerviae, venosae venis apice dichotomis. stamina 6, tetradynama. Filamenta edentula; 4 longiora latiora, altero latere extra medium paulo angustiora. Antherce uniformes, infra medium affixae, oblongo ovales, ocliroleucae, basi cordata lobulis approximato-parallelis, connectivo peran- gusto. Pollen sphaericum, simplex (nee compositum quan- tam observare licuit per lentum 114-ies augentem). Glandul(B liypogynde quatuor, filamenta longiora extus stipantes. Ovarium sessile, glabrum, biloculare, polysper- mum, ovulis numerosis. Stylus brevissimus. Stigma bipartitum, lobis placentis oppositis, obtusis, mutuo saepius appressis, basibus confluentibus et quasi in latera styli decurrentibus. SiliqucB racemosae, erectse, nonnullae quan- doque pendulae, pedicellis patentibus, intra cicatrices floris sessiles, lineari-oblongae, passim siliculiformes, utrinque obtusae. Valva planae, uninerviae, venosae. Bissepimentum completum (rarissime fenestratum foramine magno v. parvo) .arachnoideo-areolatum, axi quandoque opaciori paulo incras-

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