occupied by several rather lax, subglobose, green ovaries, one- 

 celled, with four ovules, and crowned with a sessile, acutely five- 

 lobed, fleshy stigma, the lobes spreading, the apex, for an inch 

 and a half in length, clothed with fleshy, yellow, irregularly- 

 shaped bodies, abortive stamens. Between these the spadix is 

 occupied by the sessile, fleshy anthers, flat at the summit, the 

 anther-cells arranged along the side of this connectivum. 



Pig. 1. Spadix, natural size. 2. Pistil. 3. Vertical section of ditto. 4. 

 Transverse section of ditto. 5. Anther, with its cells. 6. Transverse section 

 of an anther-cell. 7. Abortive stamens :— all more or less magnified. 



