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 PLANTS JAVANICiE RARIORES. 589

genus Professor Lindley has lately considered generically distinct from Incarvillea. But except those differences in the seeds and calyx, which I have regarded, and still con- sider, as only of sectional value, I find no other characters whatever in the flower or fruit to justify the separation; for in both species of Amphicome, as in the original Incar- villea, the ovarium as well as the capsule is certainly bilo- cular, and not unilocular, as it is described in the species figured in the ' Botanical Register' (for 1838, t. 19), and the two subgenera entirely agree in the peculiar structure of the anthera, the spur of each of whose loculi originates not on the back, but front of the cell, in the line of de- hiscence, which it limits.

The following characters of Gesneriacece, and of the [ns three tribes of which, according to my view, it consists, may serve to distinguish the family from the nearly related orders, and the tribes readily from each other.

GesneriacejE, Richard et de Jussieu.

Calyx 5-divisus, eequalis (raro parum insequalis). Corolla monopetala, irregularis, limbo 5-lobo, sestivatione imbricata. Stamina antherifera 2 v. 4, cum v. absque quinti postici rudimento. Ovarium (liberum v. adnatum) uniloculare (nunc approximatione placentarum quasi biloculare) ; basi disco lobato v. indiviso cinctum ; place?itis 2 parietalibus latera- libus (ssepius bilamellosis) polyspermis ; ovulis anatropis. Pericarpium capsulare v. baccatum. Semina parva (raphe nulla), albuminosa v. exalbuminosa ; albumine carnoso, molli, copioso v. parco. Embryo rectus, axilis, orthotropus, dimiclium albuminis dum adsit aequans v. superans.

Herbae v. SufTrutices foliis simplicibus, indivisis, exsti- pulatis, oppositis, verticillatis alternisve, sapius serratis crenatisve nunc integer rimis, in plerisque pube simplici, acuta v. capitata. Inflorescentia varia.

Gesnerie^e.

Calyx cum ovario plus minus connatus. Pericarpium capsulare. Semina albumine copioso.

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