[FAMILY 89.] RESEDACEAE
Leaves alternate, stipulate. Flowers in terminal spikes or racemes, irregular. Sepals 4-8. Petals 2-8, free, rarely 0. Disc hypogynous, one-sided, rarely wanting. Stamens 3-40, free or united at the base. Carpels 2-6, superior and usually stalked, open at the top, distinct or united and then forming a 1-celled ovary. Ovules inverted. Stigmas sessile. Seeds reniform, exalbuminous, with a curved embryo.—Genera 6, species 45. (Plate 55.)
1. Carpels 5-6, distinct or cohering at the base only. Petals 5. Leaves lanceolate, entire. 2
RESEDACEAE.
FLOW. PL. APR.
Pl. 55.
J. Fleischmann del.
Oligomeris glaucescens Cambess.
A Flowering branch. B Flower. C Petal. D Stamens. E Ovary cut lengthwise and across. F Fruit. G Seed cut lengthwise. H Part of a branch with clusters of leaves.