

the short tube of the corolla. Anthers linear, upright, 

 united like those in the flowers of the Compositn^ or Syn-^ 

 genesious plants. Ger^men obovate, hairy, 3-celIcd^ witli 

 many ovules in each cell affixed to the axis. Sfyle 

 longer than the stamens. --Stigma widened, slightly 3-Iobed. 

 Capsule berried oval, about as big as a large pea, soft, and 

 covered with soft hairs, indehiscent, 3-celled with several 

 seeds in each cell, attached to the axis in 2 or 3 rows : 

 seeds round, the size of a small grain of Black Pepper, 

 wrinkled and black : integument double, outer one iiard 

 thick red and brittle ; mner a brown membranous crust : 

 albumen the shape of the seed, cartilaginous, pale blue : 

 embryo cylindric, straight, centripetal, shooting from the 

 umbilicus half way and more through the albumen. Rnxb. 



IMSS. 



The spike represented in the plate with expanded flowers 

 is of the natural size : the figure of the entire plant, with 

 the foliage, is diminished in the proportion by which the se- 

 parate spike differs from the small ones, that are shown in 

 their natural position on the entire plant. 



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