twelve to fourteen, small, and apparently weak and imperfect, yet 
polliniferous. i/aments short, much shorter than the pistil, 
slender, all arismg from a narrow, white, annular ring. Anther 
subglobose, two-celled ; ce//s opposite, white. Ovary large, glo- 
bose, six-celled. Stigma very large, almost as large as the ovary, 
six- to eight-rayed, rays obtuse, coherent with the top of the 
ovary. Fruit a large, globose, succulent Jerry, subtended by 
the persistent calyx, and crowned with the persistent stigma, 
deep purple-brown, more or less tinged with yellow or dull 
orange, and exuding yellow drops of juice, five- to eight-celled, 
each cell one-seeded. 
‘Fig. 1. Flower-bud. 2. Back view of a flower. 3. Stamens and pistil. 4. 
Stamens. 5. Transverse section of ovary:—all more or less magnified. 6. 
Fruit :—natural size. 1. Transverse section of ditto (from Geertner) :—natural 
size. 
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