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Dr. Wazzicu on a new Genus of Plants 
plici ambientes, basin tubi intüs, a staminibus paululim 
remoti, definientes, basinque ejus non solüm, sed et sum- 
mam ovarii foveam, excepto centro perforato, obtendentes, 
convergentes, sanguinei, basibus in annulum planum con- 
nati, apicibus subadscendentibus, liberis, subulatis, obtu- 
sis, flavicantibus. Stigmata simplicia, inconspicua, obtusa. 
Bacca sphærica, diametro cerasi magni, levis, e viridi ru- 
fescens, calyce suffulta tuboque coroll: coronata immutatis 
(emarcescentibus ?) 10-locularis, parietibus, septis, axisque 
dimidià parte inferiore carnosis, albidis, crassiusculis ; axis 
veró parte superiore propter foveam terminalem ovarii ma- 
turitate contractam perforata. Loculamenta fere sicca, v. 
succo glutinoso parce donata, seminibus fere tota repleta. 
Semina valdè copiosa, viridi-fuscescentia, exactissimè glo- 
bosa, grano sinapeos nigri vix minora, dense obsita et quasi 
echinata setis v. pilis hyalinis, longiusculis, patentibus, mol- 
lissimis, succulentis basi adfixa parietibus lateralibus locu- 
lorum, vertice obsolete umbilicata, setarum fasciculo rec- 
tiore densioreque notata. Integumentum simplex, tenue, 
membranaceum. Albumen niveum, grumosum, constans 
globulis grandiusculis, facillime attritu solubilibus, rotun- 
dis. Embryo extra albumen positus, intra umbilicum (in- 
sertioni seminis oppositum ?) ovatus, minimus. (Structura 
bacce corrigenda : Vide infra). 
The account which I have given above, will, I trust, convey a 
tolerable idea of this singular, and, as far as my means enable 
me to judge, new, and hitherto, unnoticed genus. Should it be 
found defective in perspicuity, I anxiously request it may be 
kept in mind, that the description was written on the spur of the 
moment, far away from any, except the most necessary scientific 
aids, 
