PLANTAE   AMERICANAE. ^45
breve petiolata, glabra, integerrima.
Flores fpicati in ramulis oppofitis, fubfeffiles.
Cal. terminalis, germine furfum anguftato f.
elongato; monophyllus, campanulato-ere-
dus, laxiufculus, quadridentatus : dentfculis
brevibus, hto-acutis.
Cor, Petala quatuor, parva, ex incifuris caly-
cis, ovato-acuta, vix dentibus longiora, ru-
dia, decidua.
Stam. Filamenta odo, longiffima, fetacea ca-
lyce fexies longiora. Antherae fuboblongae,
parvae.
Pist. Germen fub receptaculo, lineare, qua-
drangulare angulis comprefiis fuperne acu-
minatum. Stylus longitudine ftaminum, fe-
taceus, ad bafin calycis audus pubefcenti
lanugine.   Stigma fimplex acutum.
Per. nullum, nifi crufta feminis tetragona.
Sem. uhicum, oblongum, tetragonum, quatuor
alis longitudinalibus membranaceis : nucleo
intus convolute, tetragono, angulis com-
prefiis.
107. ARBOR mediocris alia foliis lanceolatis;
pedunculis pendulis.     An Cleome?
Radix arborea.
Caulis arboris mediocris vei fruticis "akioris,
fuperne ramis filiformibus, undique difpefr-
fis, vimin.ejs : ramulis fparfis.
^^-infummis ramulis fparfa,'. alterna, pen-
dula