upper axils ; peduncle one to four inches long, slender,, 

 bearing an orbicular white bract, one-half to an inch in 

 diameter, veined with green beneath the flower. Male 

 flower sessile in the bracts, nearly two inches in diameter. 

 Calyx-lobes orbicular, green. Corolla pale yellowish with 

 three broad greenish spots on the short tubes and extending 

 as broad veins on to the base of the five large orbicular 

 crenate rounded lobes. Anther-head subsessile, anther- 

 cells sinuous, connective hairy. Female flowers few, axil- 

 lary, peduncle 'shorter than the male, bracteate below the 

 middle. Calyx-tube (or ovary) narrowly pitcher-shaped, 

 muricate ; lobes small, ovate, acute. Corolla an inch in 

 diameter, lobes revolute ; epigynous glands green ; style 

 columnar, with three short spreading arms which bear 

 capitate stigmas. Fruit two inches long, rhomboiclal 

 oblong, contracted at the base and apex, scarlet, fleshy; 

 surface with a few soft low tubercles. Seeds oblong ; 

 testa brown, rough, covered with a thick fleshy scarlet 

 coat. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Male branch ; 2, stamina] column ; 3, anther from ditto ; 4, portion of 

 female branch and flower ; 5, ovary and calyx ; 6, branch with fruit ; 7, seed with 

 axil; 8, seed removed from aril: — all but Jigs. 2, 3, and 5 of the natural size, the 

 rest enlarged. 



