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or anterior one larger ; a double linear band running along the 
centre of each. Interior and upper border fleshy, four-parted, 
unequal. The posterior division large, ascending from a con- 
tracted base, expanding rhomboidally ; margin a little wavy, 
and obscurely three-lobed, centrally grooved half way up. 
The second, or what may be called the staminal division, half 
the length of the former, erect from the opposite side of the 
rim of the tube, linear nearly to half its height, then abruptly 
expanding in breadth and thickness to nearly double, lopped 
and tooth-like at the top, sloping inwardly into a shovel-like 
-. vaginal hollow, to receive the stigma and upper part of the 
style; a slight score bisecting it externally, and ending in 
an obsolete notch above. Third and fourth divisions ex- 
actly opposite to each other, and between the two former 
a pair of short, horizontal, horn-like processes slightly 
twisted, straitening the mouth of the tube and dividing it 
unequally. 
Stamen with no filament, two pair of parallel antherous lines. 
lying on the inner thickened part of the second division, _ 
contiguous below, but with their conical points free, and E 
| projecting into the mouth of the tube, diverging upwards to 
receive the expanded stigma and upper part of the style, 
their surface, and the space they inclose, heaped with glo- 
bules of farina soon bursting into the finest pollen. 
Pistillum shorter than the corolla, and of the length of the 
stamen. 
Germen a lopped oval, smooth. Two conical ans erect 
from one side of its top contiguous to each other, half 
sheathing the style. 
Style conical at its origin, then thread-like, lastly enlarging at 
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