Phrynium, MONANDRIA. MONOGYNIA, 3 
embracing between them a two-flowered. pedicel. Flowers. 
paired, on a common pedicel, from the alternate joints of the 
rachis, large, pure white. Pedicels.clavate, thick, white, — 
and fleshy, near the apex two-parted; divisions unequal, 
with two glands at their ends like the rudiments of flowers. 
Calyx above, three-leaved; leaflets oblong-conic, tapering to 
an acute point, and much shorter than the tube of the corol. 
Corol one-petalled, irregular. Tube funnel-shaped. Border 
double; exterior of three, equal, linear-oblong, recurved 
segments. Inner elevated far above the exterior on a con- 
tinuation of the tube, and consists of five very unequal por- 
tions: the exterior two are larger, obcordate, with waved, 
panding margins; the third or middle one stands opposite 
to the first two, is broad, obcordate, deeply emarginate, and 
of a middling size between the two exterior, and two interior 
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 anther.., Filament. short, attach- 
ed. to, the margin of the smallest segment of the interior bor- 
der of the corol. Anther erect, simple, ovate-oblong. In 
this species, as. well as in P. eapitatum, the pollen consists of 
remark ably. Jarge round grains.. Germ inferior, villous, three- 
celled, with one ovulum in each, attached to the bottom of its 
cell. Style growing to, the. inside of the tube of the corol, 
and does not appear until above its mouth, when it enlarges 
into an infundibuliform, hooked, stigma; surrounded witha 
lobate, callous margin, and directed. in an oblique manner 
toward the face of the anther, as if in search of it, th 
separated by a callous projection from the base of the middle 
division of the inner border of the corol, Capsule broad, 
turbinate, size of a cherry, rugose, somewhat three-lobed, 
Shieecelle, three-valved, opening from bai ag Seed s0- : 
ae the net, hom, tinged ‘blues 
