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Dr.-Wazzicx on a new Genus of Plants. 
The membrane lining the excavation at the top separates spon- 
taneously (the styles remaining attached to it), as well as the 
tube of the torus; so does also the calyx, remaining attached to 
the apex of the scape. The character of the genus must there- 
fore be modified in the following manner : 
Tubus tori, annulus stylorum (cum membraná foveam ovarii 
tegente) et calyx maturitate seorsim decidui. Bacca ma- 
tura delabens in carpella numero loculorum correspon- 
dentia, indehiscentia? lateribus obliquè rugoso-sulcatis, 
carne mollissimo, fere exsucco, farinaceo-grumoso, ex albo 
rubicundo. 
RANGOON, August 31, 1826. 
Fig. 1. 
Fig. 2. 
Fig. S. 
Fig. 4. 
Fig. 5. 
— Big. 6. 
Fig. 7. 
EXPLANATION OF TAB. XVIII. 
A flower ;—natural size. 
Longitudinal view of a flower ;—magnified. 
a. Apex of the scape. 
b. The thalamus. c.c.c. Sepals. d. Corollaceous to- 
rus. e. Limb of the same. f. Fertile stamens. 
g- Sterile stamens. h. Section of the ovarium. 
i. Ovula. j. Radii or ducts connecting the stig- 
mata with the cells of the ovarium.  &. Styles. 
Ovarium with the corollaceous torus removed, and sur- 
mounted by the stigmata ;—magnified. 
Corollaceous torus separate. 
Fertile stamen. 
Sterile ditto. — 
Ovarium divided horizontally, to show the cells ;—en- 
— larged. | 
XX. Ob- 
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