where the cavities are the largest, the section has 
through the very middle of them, where smaller, either a 
very small or a very large portion has been cut away ; for, 
opposite to the apertures, the cavity is of the same size, or 
nearly so throughout.) Each cavity we find to be filled with 
a great number of flowers, about an inch long, but collected 
and united into a very closely imbricated, distichous, 
kidney-shaped mass (t. 2735. f. 4.), attached by its base, 
(a) to the innermost side of the cavity next the axis of 
the spadix. Only one flower opens at a time, beginning 
with the lowermost, which is the longest and next the 
aperture ; when that has discharged its office, the one 
above it becomes more elongated, expands, is protruded 
till the pollen is dispersed ; and so on, till the whole, haps 
fifty or sixty, have withered ; in which state they still gectante 
within the cavity, a mere mass of husky scales, if possible 
more closely compacted than before. Each flower is com- 
posed of six pieces, of which the three outer have been gene- 
rally considered a calyx, and the three inner, a corolla (t. 
2735. f. 5, 6.): they are oblong, membranaceous, yellowish- 
brown; the outer ones rather larger and more angular 
than the inner. Stamens fifteen or twenty. Filaments 
united at the base into one body (t. 2735. f: 7.): Anthers 
linear, two-celled, opening longitudinally, each cell termi- 
nating in two globular heads. The Spadix has a short 
compressed footstalk, with a groove on one side. te 
_ Spadix of the Female Plant (t. 2736, f. 1.) also springing 
m the axil of the leaves, pendent, two to four feet long, 
thick and woolly, tortuose, clothed with large sheathing, 
red-brown scales, which are singularly fimbriated, or more 
§enerally erose at the margin, and support several, more 
or less distantly placed, female flowers of different ages, at 
_ the same time, and of various sizes: for, along with the 
-fully-formed ripe fruit is often seen the still unfertilized 
 Sermen, in itself about the size of a hen’s egg, but enve- 
_ toped in the six leaves of the perianth, of so thick a nature, 
88 to render the whole of the dimensions and form of a 
_ Moderate sized apple (t. 2736, f. 5.). The three outer 
and three inner leaves (or Calyx and Corolla) are almost 
emisphzerical and an inch thick at the base ; the outer ones 
the largest, their margins crenated ; but both remain and 
_icrease in size prodigiously with the fruit, so as then to 
be five or six inches in ‘hia Germen almost concealed 
by the Perianth ; broadly ovate, narrow at the base above 
the insertion of the Perianth ; and in that lower part only, 
ye exhibiting 
