crowded together, sometimes alia’ sometimes two, three, 
or four together, i in which latter case the opening of each 
anther, which is one celled, is interiorly. othe. consistence 
of ery: a Pigs mes ‘onan within them a pale 
yellow po ich, 1 ve seen it in it perfect 
is roundish, angular, and pellucid. | oe 
The Finite nape ich I hade not seen, accordin 
to Ricuarp, throws up ikepise from the extremity of the 
trunk, among the leaves, a cluster of numerous spadices, 
(tab. 2827, f. 1.) a foot long, somewhat imbricated, clothed 
with a reddish down, of a ‘thick coriaceous texture, the ex- 
tremity lanceolate, acuminate, and serrated, tapering below. 
Beneath the rn gah the margin is broadly sinuato- 
_ dentate, and within eac projection, or tooth-like process, 
is, pointing upwards, a cavity, in which is almost half 
immersed the solitary female flower. The same author, 
Ricnarp, takes the following view of the structure of each 
flower. It is subglobose, about the size of a pea, and 
resembles a naked pistil, slightly depressed at th 
- there having a small, c ndrical, 
combing ee Ta 2827, 
flower, ¢ i i ically; 
th, mapa 
drical mouth. or li 
taceous portion of the caly KX; da% 
substance filling the internal cavity of fl 
hering to’ ‘the half-immersed germen 
superior and free part of the germen. 
and amongst them Mr. Brown, seem rather 
consider the female flower as a monosperm nus pistil, 
no proper floral envelope. Of the female fructificati 
have only seen the perfect, "deed and of that but a sing] thee 
cimen, W which’ I have tee figured. Jn it I perceive not 
to militate against its bemg ricatithts of any floral envel 
hence I shall adopt the terms simpl mig plied to a 
considering the whole as a Dri abo the size of thal 
of 4 w . roundish-oval, labrous, reddish- 
orange, aving a small perfor rai at the top, f.3. The 
outer pulpy pees is about half a line thick, which sur- 
* Not é slihitd hefhces acca, I may refer to the Section of the 
female flower, tab. 2827, f. 2, which will ually serve to illustrate Ricnarp's 
ideas of the fruit. The germen, f. ¢, being with him of course the fruit; his 
Nucleus still immersed in the fungous substance, f.d. All without that (his 
calyx) equally accompanies the fruit as ‘the flower. ‘This fungous substance, 
however, did not exist in my fruit. } 
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