Peduncle of the male flowers, two to three inches long, 
with a cluster of about five to six flowers at the extremity. 
Calyx an inch long, tubular, green, glandularly pubescent, 
a little swoln at the base and spreading at the top, where 
it has five subulate teeth. Corolla of one petal, white, the 
tube intimately united, and incorporated with the tube of 
the calyx ; the limb free, spreading, cut into five lon seg- 
ments, which are deeply bifid, the divisions linear, forked 
at the extremity. Anthers three, sessile, inserted within 
the mouth of the corolla ; their sides cohering by the late- 
ral cells. Pollen yellow. The female flowers and fruit I 
have not seen; but according to Pxrumter’s figure, the 
latter is oblong, about an inch and a half long, striated, 
four-celled. 
This plant does not, indeed, well accord with the generic 
character of Tricnosantues, as the corolla cannot be said 
to be fringed. There can be no doubt, I think, of its 
being the Tricnosanruss petalis bicornibus of Puumier, 
although, as Sir James Surrn remarks, the resemblance to 
horns was, probably, a deception. 
Native of the West Indies ; and flowers in the stove, in 
September. 
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Fig. 1. Interior view of the Calyx, shewing the Stamens. 2, Stamen. 
3. Base of the Calyx. 4, Segment of the Corolla,— Magnified. 
