Stamens 10, 2-seriate, filaments shorter than the anthers; 
anthers oblong, /5 in. long, finely papillose, red, connective 
obtuse, produced beyond the locules which are cuspidate at 
the base. Carpels 5, free, alternate with the petals; ovary 
attached by the inner angle to the produced torus, com- 
pressed laterally; ovule pendulous from the top of the 
ventral suture; style and stigma feathery, ;, in. long. 
Fruit made up of 5 achenes, enclosed in the orange-yellow, 
fleshy, enlarged triangular-convex petals now }-! in. long, 
&-% In. wide, +45—} in. thick ; achenes laterally compressed, 
oblong when seen sideways, } in. long, ;); in. from back to 
front, yy in. thick, rounded at the tip, somewhat truncate 
at the base, strongly keeled on the back and with a distinct 
rib on each side of the keel; styles more or less persistent. 
Pericarp crustaceous. ‘esta membranous, brownish. 
Fig. 1, flower; 2, the same, two of the sepals removed; 3, anther; 4, carpels; 
5, fruit with two of the accrescent petals removed; 6, an achene; 7, embryo:— 
all enlarged. : 
