of the lower are female, the rest male. Male flowers with 
a calyx of five, deep, ovate segments or leaflets, green. 
Corolla of five, oblong, waved petals. Stamens 10, five 
upper and five lower, all united with the base of a colum- 
nar, abortive, subtrigonous pistil. Filaments spreading, 
nearly horizontally: Anthers roundish, pale yellow, with a 
reddish gland of union between the lobes. Female flower 
with five, upright, oblong, and acute leaflets, and three 
outer and smaller ones. Corolla of five, small, erect petals. 
Pistil oblongo-rotundate, with a sessile, white, many-rayed 
stigma, clothed with numerous soft bristles. Fruit three- 
lobed, hispid. 
Seeds of this Croron were sent by Mr. Locxuarr from 
Trinidad to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, where they pro- 
duced flowering plants in August, 1827. Pxrumier’s figure 
above referred to is so ill executed, that I cannot quote it 
as a certain synonym to this plant; but the descriptions of 
other authors sufficiently accord with it. Probably the C. 
palustre of Linnzus is searcely specifically distinct. 
It has nothing to recommend it as a plant worthy of 
cultivation, except, indeed, in the gardens of the curious. 
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Fig. 1. Male Flower. 2. Front view of a Stamen. 3. Back view of ditto. 
4. Female Flower. 5. Calyx and Corolla of ditto spread out, from which the 
Pistil, at fig. 6, has been removed. 7. Young Fr 8. Soft hair or bristle 
