. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . 2. KALLSTROEMIA Scop. Introd. 212. 1777. Mostly animal branching pubescent herbs, the branches often prostrate, with opposite stipules evenly pinnate leaves, and solitary axillary peduncled yellow flowers. Sepals usually 5, persistent or deciduous. Petals the same number, obovate or oblanceolate, deciduous. Stamens twice as many as the petals. Ovary sessile, io-12-cened; ovu
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . 2. KALLSTROEMIA Scop. Introd. 212. 1777. Mostly animal branching pubescent herbs, the branches often prostrate, with opposite stipules evenly pinnate leaves, and solitary axillary peduncled yellow flowers. Sepals usually 5, persistent or deciduous. Petals the same number, obovate or oblanceolate, deciduous. Stamens twice as many as the petals. Ovary sessile, io-12-cened; ovule I in each cavity, pendulous; style long, or short, io-12-grooved, persistent; stigma mostly io-12-ridged. Fruit io-12-Iobed, not spiny, often tubercled, splitting into 10-12 i-seeded segments. [In honor of Kallstroem.] About 20 species, of wide distribution in warm and tropical regions. Besides the following, 7 others occur m the southern and western States. Type species: Tribulus maximus L. Persistent style longer than the carpel-bodies; carpel-faces scarcely wrinkled; petals 3j^"-5" long. Persistent style shorter than the carpel-bodies; carpel-faces prominently wrinkled: petals 2i^"-V' '0"g- 2.
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