mity. Ovaries fifteen to twenty, linear, united into a large, 
ovate, cone-shaped mass, with a central fleshy portion : each one- 
celled, many-seeded. Ovu/es minute, attached to a long recep- 
tacle in the axis of the ovary. Styles as many as ovaries, linear- 
lanceolate, white, spreading in a radiating manner. rut com- 
pound, consisting of the “ numerous, subreniform capsules, at- 
tached to the fleshy central mass, and containing a pellucid, glu- 
tinous liquid, which surrounds the seeds.” 
Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Transverse section of the ovaries which surround the 
central mass, magnified. 3. Combined ovaries with their radiating stigmas :— 
nat. size. 
