than the spreading fertile stamens, and destitute of the remark- 
able glands and stellated hairs.) The flattened disc of the re- 
ceptacle bears on its surface, what appears at first sight a many- 
celled depressed ovary, and so our figures make them appear ; 
but a careful dissection will show it to be composed of a number 
of ovaries, all on the same plane, and incorporated into a mass, 
each terminated by its slightly elevated but sessile penicillate 
or tufted stigma, one-celled, the cell contaming four or five hori- 
zontal ovaries attached to one side of the cell. The fruit is 
unknown to me, and I refer to Mr. Brown’s figure and descrip- 
tion for it. 
Fig. 1. Vertical section of a flower, from which the operculum had fallen. 2. 
Perfect stamen. 3. Outer abortive petaloid stamen. 4. Inner ditto. 5. Re- 
ceptacle from which the stamens (fertile and barren) are removed, and showing 
the disc bearing the united pistils. 6. Section of two of the coadunate ovaries ; 
but there should have been in this more magnified figure, a faint vertical line 
distinguishing the ovaries, and a transverse line below, as the separation from 
the receptacle :—all more or less magnified. 
