268 Mr. Konig's Observations on the Durum, 
Stamixa: Filamenta plurimsi (%5 — 45), filiform ia, rubra, erccta, 
petalis paululum longiora (ante efnorescentiam multum bre- 
viora), subclichotoma, connata infra medium in phalanges 
quinque petalis oppositas, fundoque calycis insertas. Antlierce 
rotundatse, mesenteriformes: lamellae curvatae, subpedicellatae, 
rubrae, marginibus albis. 
Pistillum: Ovarium superum, ovato-oblongum, obsolete pen- 
tagonum, primo squamulis argenteis postea granulis undique 
obsitum, neutiquam stipitatum. Stylus simplex, longitudine 
et colore filamentorum, teres, filiformis, basi crassior, superne 
subintortus. Stigma capitatum, quinquesulcatum, Havens. 
Fructus: Pomum maximum, ovato-rotundatum s. rotundum, in 
vertice umbonatum, quinqueloculare, corticatum: Cortex cras- 
sus, duriusculus, undique obsitus tuberculis 5— hexaeclris, pyra- 
midatis, suberosis, innocue mucronatis, fibrosis, rlavo-virescen- 
tibus, medio fructus pollicaribus, versus extremitates minori- 
bus, ad pedunculum crassum in squamas conicas abeuntibus. 
Caro solida, fibris rubentibus intertexta. Loculamenta quinque, 
longitudine fere fructus, extrorsum dehiscentia, undique laevi- 
gata excepto latere pistillari* cum quo semina, mediantibus 
arillis, arete connata sunt 
Semina in singulo loculamento 2 — 5, nitida, spadiceo-lutea, 
ovato-oblonga, nine convexa inde planiuscula, ab altero latere 
versus basin derasa, arillata. 
* An excellent carpologist, Dr. Correa de Serra (Linn. Trans, vol. 5. . p. 222), calls 
chorda pistillaris that aggregation of longitudinal fibres and vessels, which in most fleshy 
fruits may be traced from their insertion in the receptacle up to the stigma, and to which 
the seeds are affixed. This bundle is less obvious in the fruit of the Durion, the whole of 
its flesh being interwoven with fibres ; but still it exists : whence I apply the term of 
latus pistillare to the side of the loculaments next to the centre of the fruit. 
Arilli 
