ovule* two, inserted one above the other on the inside 

 of the face of the ovary, fungilliform (that is, with their 

 upper part much dilated and in the shape of a hat, 

 wrapping over the lower half, which is cylindrical and 

 directed towards the back of the ovary): hilum on the 

 lowest edge of the hat. Styles as many as ovaries, simple, 

 disengaged, filiform, hairy at the base, terminal: stigma 

 terminal, simple. Fruit (received from Mr. John Fraser) 

 obovate, elongated, formed of the hardened, persistent 

 perianth with 5 or 6 ribs, simple at the base, variously 

 divided upwards. Achenia somewhat hairy, inserted 

 obliquely on the inside of the perianth, sessile, indefinite, 

 oval, brown, polished, face straight, back gibbous, down 

 each of the last obscurely margined, margin of the face more 

 prominent than the other; pericarp corneous, not fragile. 

 Seed shaped like the cavity of the pericarp, ascending, with 

 the hilum nearly opposite the scar of the achenium ; skin 

 double, the outer pale brown, tough, the inner extremely 

 delicate, white; between these two, from the hilum to the 

 chalaza, which is flattened, runs a series of vessels (the 

 raphe) possessing considerable tenacity, and extended even 

 beyond the chalaza down between the approximated edges 

 of the cotyledons. Embryo homotropous, orthotropous, 

 without albumen; cotyledons white, fleshy, 5 times convo- 

 lute, their back opposite the placenta: radicle inserted by a 

 broad short unguis within the bases of the cotyledons, 

 obconical, exorhizous, obtuse at the tip, truncate at the 

 base; gemmule scarcely visible, in the depressed centre of 

 the base of the radicle. Lindley MSS. 



