inches in diameter, solitary at the ends of the branches ; 
peduncles short. Sepals five, connate at the base, forming 
a hemispherical tube ; lobes of the limb orbicular, concave, 
imbricate, very much shorter than the petals. Petals five, 
perigynous, orbicular, wavy, shortly clawed, imbricate. 
Stamens very numerous, perigynous, in three or four 
series, much shorter than the petals; filaments very short ; 
anthers dehiscing longitudinally. Pistil of three to six 
carpels, connate at the base on a common stalk, otherwise 
free ; styles very short ; stigmas capitate. rut follicular ; 
follicles one to six, recurved, the largest about one inch 
long, dehiscing by the inner or ventral suture. Seeds 
numerous, in two rows, reniform, enveloped in a fringed 
aril; testa crustaceous, black, shining. Hmbryo siall, 
clavate, slightly curved, immersed in the albumen near the 
hilum; radicle slightly longer than the cotyledons.— 
Wo, A 
Fig. 1, tricarpellary pistil with part of calyx-tube and base of stamens; 
2 and 3, stamens; 4, fruit and persistent calyx ; 5, a seed enveloped in the aril; 
6, the same divested of the aril :—all except 4 enlarged. 
