_-as themselves; bracts subulate, minute. Perianth cam- 
_panulate; segments lanceolate, acuminate. Matz rower: 
__ stamens six, filaments united into a cylindric column bearing 
_ the adnate two-celled anthers at the tip; anther-cells 
_ oblong, disconnected, bursting by dorsal slits, connective 
produced into a long erect subulate horn. Frane Flower: 
carpels three, erect, linear, cylindric, with discoid sessile 
stigmas, surrounded at the base by six subsessile abortive 
free anthers; ovules many, two-seriate on the ventral 
suture. Sipe carpels three, three to four inches long by 
one to one and a half in diameter, cylindric, spreading and 
recurved, golden yellow, fleshy, full of white sweet pulp ; 
pericarp fleshy, with yellow juice, coarsely granulate ex- 
ternally. Seeds numerous, two-seriate, suborbicular or 
oblong, flattened, one-half to three-quarters of an inch in 
diameter; testa hard, brown, shining ; embryo minute, in 
horny albumen.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Whole plant, reduced; 2, flowering (g) branch; 3, portion of leaf; 
4, bud scale ; 5, staminal column; 6, anther; 7, carpels and abortive stamens of 9 ; 
8, fruit; 9, seed; 10, albumen and embryo; 11, embryo removed :—all but figs. 2, 
3, 4, 8, and 9, enlarged. (Figures of female flower, seeds, and fruit, from Tl. 
Himal. Pi.) 
