Canarina. HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 173 
gins, inserted on the segments of the calyx; apices 
white, vaulted inwards over the stigma. Anthers linear, 
two-lobed, attached to the middle of the vault, with their 
apices outwards. Germ beneath, turbinate,) six-sided, 
crowned with three large, hairy, convex, purple glands, 
one-celled. Seeds many, attached to three equidistant, pa- 
rietal receptacles. Style short, rising from the centre of 
the three purple glands, and evidently composed of 
three united into one. Stigma broad, peltate, composed 
of three, two-lobed divisions. Pericarp ; berry nearly 
round, size of a pigeon’s egg, crowned with the withered 
calyx, and marked with six, protuberant, equidistant, 
vertical ribs, smooth, when ripe yellow, one-celled. 
Receptacles asin the germ. Seeds numerous, attached 
to the three parietal receptacles, as in the germ, oval, 
or ovate, longitudinally furrowed, light brown, each en- 
veloped in a small portion of colourless, succulent pulp, 
which may be termed a complete aril. Integuments two, 
exterior spongy ; interior a thin, reticulate, white mem- 
brane. Perisperm conform to the seed, rather succulent 
while fresh. Embryo minute, and lodged in the end of 
the perisperm next to the (umbilicus,) subcentrifagal. 
CANARINA. Schreb. gen. n. 603. 
Calyx six-leaved. Corol companulate. Stigmas ie 
Capsule inferior, es con igre peor eee 
¢. moluccana. R. | 
Erect, smooth, Leaves opposite, short-petioled, ovate | 
oblong, serrate, smooth. Flowers terminal, and axillary. 
Calyx subpinnatifid. 
A native of the Moluccas. The specimens seen are re her-. 
baceous, The number six prevails throughout the flow-. 
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