whence they face together round the shaft of the column ; 

 Kmer one thick, fleshy, short, obliquely incumbent, re- 

 pandly indented : nectari/ divided transvei-sely by an incom- 

 plete circular ledgelike partition. Column scarcely shorter 

 than the flower: shaft about If inch high, green, marked 

 with irregular red spots, pentagonal below, round upwards, 

 Filg^ments separated to the length of the anthers, re 



curvedly spreading, greenish, ligulate, with an inwardly 



prominent midrib : anthers linearly oblong, greenish yellow, 

 Germen oblong, faintly 3-lobed, greenish, opaque, smooth : 

 styles greenish, clavate, recurved, at first rather longer 

 than the germen: stigmas pulvinately orbicular. According 

 to Brotero the fruit is an oblong pale green smooth 3-fur- 

 rowed berry, about 2 inches in length. This appears to 



have ripened at Lisbon. 



o The tube of the calyx, a The long rays of the outer crown, h The 



short rays, -or rather rudiments of rays, c The inner convergent crown. 



d The upper operculum or ruffle, e The lower operculum or ruffle. j^The 

 incomjplete partition of the nectary. 



