imbricated, sub-patent ; the outer ones short, thick, and 
fleshy ; the inner from half an inch to an inch long. Style 
longer than the stamens, pale yellow, thickish, swollen 
downwards, solid, or with only a thread-like, central hollow 
towards the top. Stigma of generally five, sometimes four, 
pale yellow, finally ferruginous-bordered, erect, subconni- 
vent, ovate lobes. Filaments and anthers pale. Germen 
half or three quarters of an inch long, cup-shaped at top, 
uneven, angulato-tubercular, bearing a minute, fleshy, ova- 
to-globose, yellowish, deciduous leaf at the summit of each 
irregular tubercle, inside of which is a fascicle of short, 
minute, chestnut bristles : a vertical section discovers the 
central, subtriangular, cell-like ovarium, containing from 
one to five ovules. Fruit subglobose, approaching to oval 
more or less, with the cup-shaped hollow at the top obso- 
lete, so as to be often truncate, from an inch to an inch and 
half in diameter, the colour of a Magnum-bonum Plum ; 
perfectly even, but furnished with short, dense fascicles, 
tufts, or branches, of rich chestnut-coloured bristles, con- 
trasting beautifully with the delicate transparent yellow of 
the thin, smooth skin. A few of these are twice as long as 
the rest: all are extremely deciduous, brittle, and acute, 
so as to render the examination of the fruit more than ordi- 
narily troublesome. It is hardly possible to touch the plant 
when in fructification without getting the skin or clothes 
full of these bristles. Inside of the fruzt pale yellowish- 
white, containing in the middle from one to four, much 
flattened, rather large round seeds, three or four lines in 
diameter, enveloped in a singular, dense, cottony mass of 
fibres. The fruit is rather agreeable, juicy, with a fine 
acid, somewhat resembling an indifferent, hard-fleshed, or 
unripe Plum, with a smell and slight flavour like the leaf- 
stalks of garden Rhubarb. Rev. J. T. Lowe. sane 
Fig. 1. Diminished sketch of the whole Plant. 2. Branch with Flowers 
and ripe Fruit. 3. Vertical Section of the Germen and Style, with the 
Stamens and a single Petal. 4. Pistil split down and spread open. 6. 
Seed from the ripe Fruit :—fig. 2—5 nat. size ; the rest magnified. 
