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of the corolla, stamens and disk, so that unless you cut into 
the very base of the ovary the cells may be overlooked ; it 
has five cells, in each of which two ovules hang from the top 
of an axile placenta, which is so attached to the partitions 
that there is a clear opening from the hollow centre of the 
style, over the ovules, into the cells of the ovary ; the ovules 
are oblong, with a depression in the middle on each side, and 
a foramen next the base, the nucleus being curved like 
a horse-shoe, so that its base and apex are both nearly in 
contact; the style is 5-angled, or rather 5-winged, and ter- 
minated by a table-shaped stigma, with five sides, five rays, 
and a small elevation at each angle, which elevations are per- 
haps the true stigmatic surfaces. 
The fruit, according to De Beauvois, is a soft spherical 
berry, surmounted by the calyx, one-celled, many-seeded, the 
seeds lying in a fleshy matter; this is evidently incorrect. 
Mr. Whitfield found it to be as large as a Pomegranate, and 
very like one, containing a mucilaginous pulp which is 
eatable, and a rind so full of tannin, that the natives make an 
ink from it. l E 
The seeds (of which I have seen one, dead and without its 
skin) are large amygdaloid bodies, kidney-shaped, and as 
much as 14 inch long, with the taste (in that state) of a 
Spanish chesnut, but with a bitter aftertaste; at their con- 
traction the plano-convex cotyledons hold together by an axis 
whose radicle and plumule are both immersed in the substance 
of the cotyledons. 
Such being the true structure of this plant, its generic 
character may be stated thus. 
NAPOLEONA. 
(Palisot de Beauvois fl. d Oware et de Benin, vol.2. p. 99. 1.78.) 
Calyx adherens, coriaceus, 5-fidus, «stivatione valvatus. 
Corolla e verticillis tribus plicatis monopetalis constans, 
quorum exterior maximus, 5-lobus reflexus, laciniis 7- 
costatis dentibusque totidem crispis acuminatis; secundus 
ascendens, annuliformis, alté multipartitus, laciniis line- 
aribus acuminatis crispis ; tertius erectus, cyathiformis, 
plicatus, margine multifido inflexo. Stamina 20, corollee 
interioris basi inserta, serie simplici, basi irregulariter 
