Phrynium. MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 3 
tapering to an acute point, and much shorter than the tube of the 
corol.— Coro! one-petalled, irregular. Tube funnel-shaped. Border 
double ; exterior of three, equal, linear-oblong, recurved segments. 
Inner elevated far above the exterior on a continuation of the tube, 
and consists of five very unequal portions ; the exterior two are larger, 
. obcordate, with waved, expanding margins ; the third or middle one 
stands opposite to the first two, is broad, obcordate, deeply emar- 
ginate, and of a middling size between the two exterior, and two in- 
terior segments ; on the inside near the base a semilunar body which 
‘projects inward between the anther and stigma; the inner two small, 
and crown the mouth of the tube, closely embracing the stigma, and 
ment of the interior border of the corol. — Anther ex ect, simple, 
ovate-oblong. In this species, as well asin P. capitatum, the pollen 
consists of remarkably large round grains.— Germ inferior, villous, 3- 
celled, with one ovulum in each, attached to the bottom of its cell. 
Style growing to the inside of the tube ofthe corol, and does not ap- 
pear until above its mouth, when it enlarges, into an infundibuliform, 
hooked stigma, surrounded with a lobate, callous margin, and direc- 
ted in ap oblique manner toward the face of the anther, as if in search 
of it, though separated by a callous projection from the base of the 
middle division of the inner border of the corol.— Capsule broad-tur- 
binate, size of a cherry, rugose, somewhat 3-lobed, 3-celled, 3-valved, 
opening from the apex.—Seed solitary, round, resting on a small, par- 
tial, scaly aril. Integuments two: exterior soft and spongy; inner nu- 
ciform.— Perisperm conform to the seed, horny, tinged, blue; a fis- 
sure penetrates. from the base pretty far up, separating the two ex- 
tremities of the embryo.  Fitellus ; none has been discovered in any 
of the simple-anthered scitamines which have been examined by me. 
; Jo pure white, hooked, with the convexity upward, which, 
nds with the periphery of the seed. . a E 
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