Flowers yellowish-green, each }'; in. across, crowded in 
globose 60-90-flowered terminal umbels, each 14-2 
in. across, which may be solitary or several together in a 
corymbose cluster; peduncles 13-4 in. long. Calyx 
- §-toothed, the teeth minute, triangular. Petals 5, ovate, ~ 
acute, 4 in. long, deflexed, their margin and apex 
incurved. Stamens 5; filaments glabrous, } in. long; 
anthers exserted. J ruit a purplish-black, globose to 
oblong berry, +-3 in. long, terminated by the short, 
persisting style. Seeds compressed, semi-elliptic, + in. 
long, ;!5 in. wide, embedded in the black juicy pulp 
. 12 . . * 
which stains like ink. 
Fig. 1, flower; 2, calyx and pistil; 8 and 4, anthers ; 5, fruit; 6, a seed :— 
all enlarged. 
