on the branchlets and tops of the main branches, generally 
one sometimes 2-3-flowered, recurved, round, appearing 
green through a silky nap, much shorter than the leaves, 
with a foliaceous bracte above the middle, in the three- 
flowered ones with a bracte subtending each of the side- 
pedicles, and another just below the middle flower. Calyx 
permanent, coriaceo-herbaceous, silky, 5-cleft to beyond 
the middle, from campanulate and three times shorter than 
the corolla growing out into a very large flat star, with 
taper-pointed oblong segments reflexed along the edge and 
at last turned back from the seedvessel. Corolla hardly as 
big as that of the common Arsurus, pale-yellow, opaque, 
ceolate, 5-cleft to below the middle, obsoletely villous on 
the outside; Zube short, oblately ventricose; limb 5-parted, 
twisted, constricted at the lower part, reflexed at the upper, 
segments oblong obtuse with a short point. Stamens 10, 
abortive, even with and pressed close to the germen : fila- 
ments in pairs? very short, fleshy, robust, green, smooth, 
inserted round the edge of the bottom of the tube: anthers 
empty, continuously upright, oblong, taper-pointed, hirsute, 
much longer than the filaments. .Germen ovately round, 
grey, and villous: style short, silky, columnar, parting into 
5 filiform smooth stigmas as long as itself and widened at 
the end. 
The following account of the fruit is from Jacquin's 
Fragmenta. 
* Calyx permanent, with five green reflexed segments. 
Seedvessel nearly round, not much less than an inch in 
diameter, velvetty, with a partly fleshy and partly coria- 
ceous rind, reddish yellow, one-celled, 5-valved, valves 
lanceolate pointed opening extendedly. Seeds oblong, 
roundish, terminated by a very small mucro (distinct sharp 
point), shining, chestnut-brown, marked at the upper part 
with a black spot, natural number when complete 10, 
though they are usually fewer, as some miscarry, each en- 
veloped in its peculiar covering of a glutinous insipidly 
sweet and rather offensively smelling substance, which 
comes off by rubbing. The number of these glutinous lobes 
is ten; they are contiguous, but detached and easily sepa- 
rated from one another, nearly in the way of the separate 
capsules (or as children call them the cheeses) of the fruit 
of the Mallow. Those that are without seed, enclose a chest- 
nut-coloured corpuscle at both their upper and lower parts, 
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