414 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Styrax, 
and a half or two broad. Stipules none. Peduncles axil- 
lary, but chiefly from the old axils on the two to three 
year old branches, solitary, or in pairs, very short, from 
five to twenty flowered, smooth. | Pedicels much long- 
er than the peduncles, smooth, clavate, highly coloured, 
pendulous, having the apex enlarged into a saucer-shap- 
ed receptacle for the germ. Flowers large, (two inches 
long,) pendulous, of a variegated pink and_ red colour, 
with the mouth greenish. Bractes some triangular scales 
at the base and divisions of the peduncle. Calyx supe- 
rior, five-parted. Segments smooth, conical, and acute. 
Corol one-petalled. Tube considerably gibbous toward 
the middle; the shades of colour appear imbricated, and 
acuminate ; mouth five-cleft; segments taper, rather ob- 
tuse, and greenish. Filaments ten, short, scariose, some- 
times slightly united at the base, inserted partly on the 
crown of the germ, andthe base of the tube of the: corol 
on the inside. Anthers linear, of a bright rust colour, two 
celled, crowned with a very long, scariose, bright, gold 
coloured horn, which reaches to the mouth of the corol, 
and united their whole length into a tube round the style. 
Germ inferior, urn-shaped, five-celled, with many ovulain 
each, attached to the axis. Style the length of the corol. 
Stigma five-lobed. — Berries inferior, turbinate, crowned 
with the permanent calyx, the size ofa small cherry, SU& 
culent ; when ripe the colour is a mixture of red and yel- 
— low, five-celled. Seeds many, linear-oblong, inserted aS 
in the germ. Integument single. Perisperm conform to 
the seed, soft, and clammy. Embryo nearly straight, cy" 
lindric. Cotyledons two, Radicle ——— si at the 
umblicus (centripetal.) — Ol 
eases RAL: Kelech gru a: 0. cand 
Calyx five-toothed. Coro! one-petalled, cimuciel 
Germ superior, one-celled, many-seeded ; attachment it 
