to the petiole, their acuminate tips only free. Flowers 
solitary, or two to four on a _ peduncle, large white; 
peduncles and ellipsoid ovaries more or less glandular- 
hairy. Sepals lanceolate, tips linear or slightly dilated. 
Petals twice or thrice as long as the sepals. Carpels and 
styles sparsely hirsute. fruit ellipsoid or ‘sub-pyriform, 
crowned with the persistent sepals, red.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, bud; 1 and 3, anthers; 4, carpels :—all enlarged—i, fruit of the 
natural size, 
