viv1ania

[Named after Signor Viviana, M. D., a botanist of Genoa.] Bot.: The typical genus of Vivianiaceae (q. v.). Undershrubs with opposite ovate leaves, covered beneath with white down, and terminal panicles of white, pink, or purple flowers. Natives of Chili and Brazil. viv-i-ā-ni-ā-çě-æ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. viviani ( a ); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff.- aceœ.] Bot .: Vivianiads; an order of Hypogynous Exogens, alliance Malvales. Herbs or undershrubs, with opposite or whorled, exstipulate leaves, often hoary on their lower side with down. Flowers in panicles or corymbs, white, red, or pink. Calyx ten-ribbed, with five divisions; petals five, with claws often remaining, after withering around the ovary; stamens ten; filaments distinct; anthers two-celled; stigmas three, se ile; ovary free, three celled; ovules two in each cell, one ascending, the other suspended; capsule three-lobed, three-celled; seeds roughish. Natives of Chili and the South of Brazil. Known genera four, species fifteen. ( Lind ley .)