 Gardnerià. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, ` 401 
- divided into four-concave, orbicular, ciliated, alternately imbricating 
_ lacinig.—Corol thick and leathery, yellow, deeply four-parted ; lact- 
mic ovate, acute, slighty concave, very spreading, almost recurved, 
about two lines long, alternatiug with those of the calyx and with the 
insertion of the stamens, covered above, particularly towards thé 
thickened apex with a sericeous down, margins broad and flat; dur- 
‘ing the aestivation they are valvate.— Tube none.— Stamens four, 
erect, somewhat shorter than the corol. Filaments scarcely percep- 
tible, inserted at the bottom of the corol just below the fissures. . 
Anthers ovate, acute, and free at both ends, Heshy in the middle ; 
the sides uniting into a ventricose, pervious, four-toothed tube ; with- 
in, towards their margins, they are two-celled; the cells separated by 
a longitudinal partition, which becomes free and keel- formed at their - 
bursting. — Ovarium above, and perfectly distinct from the calyx, 
ovate, minute, two-celled, two-seeded: ovula attached to the centre 
Of the ‘partition.— Style filiform, shorter than the tube of the an- 
thers.— Stigma simple? acute.— Berry superior, round, somewhat 
depressed, smooth, crowned with the persistent base of the style, 
supported by the calyx, scarlet, about the size of a large Cur- - 
rant, fleshy, two-celled, two-seeded. Pulp pale red.— Dissepiment 
— very thin, membranaceous, marked on each side with some vessels 
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disposed in the form of a cross.— Placenta fleshy, short, originating — 
from the centre of the dissepiment, entering the cavity of the seed 
and filling it entirely with a soft pulp.—Seed solitary in each cell, 
very thin, bullate and excavated in the shape of a hemispherical cup 
With a flat somewhat widened, exactly circular margin, gibbous at 
the back, smooth on both sides, of a grayish brown colour.— Inte- 
| gument single, coriaceous, closely adhering to the horny, pearl-colour- 
èd Perisperm, which has exactly the form of the seed.—Embryo 
_ dicotyledoneous, erect, cylindrical, adscending, from above the infe- 
rior portion of the margin, about one-third the leugth of the seed, 
slightly curved, milk-white.— Cotyledons leafy, lanceolate, flat, parel- 
lel to the sides of the seed. — Radicle cylindric, inferior and sliglit- 
ly centripetal, twice as.long as the cotyledons, its apex situated im- 
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