Phrynium. MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 9 
further than the flowers. Flowers numerous, collected into 
a pretty large, sessile head, which bursts from the anterior 
margin of the jointed petioles, small, and nearly hid among 
the large bractes; when they first expand in the morning 
rose-coloured, gradually becoming purple by the evening. 
Bractes, calyx of Louriero’s Phyllodes, several, collecting 
the small sessile flowers into several fasciculi of two, three, 
or four pair, each of which expand in succession. The ex- 
terior one of each fascicle is large, subcylindric, of a firm 
texture, and reddish colour ; apices truncate, with scariose, 
incurved margin; the rest are smaller, and more or less 
- pointed, Calyx superior, three-leaved; leaflets ensiform, 
length of the tube of the corol, hairy about the points. Corol 
one-pétalled. Tube funnel-shaped, scarcely perforated. 
Border double; exterior of three, equal, purple, spatulate, 
recurvate segments ; interior more elevated on a continuation 
of the tube, and consists of five, very unequal segments; the 
exterior two larger, round, curled, and of a pale rose colour ; 
the innermost one small, and running down the side of the 
filament like a wing. | _ Filament solitary, short, nserted on 
the mouth of the tube close by the free, curved end of the 
styles: ie simple 5 grains of the pollen white, large, and: 
ical. Germ inferior, oblong, very short pedicelled, 
Iesibyseh ree- celled, with one ovulum in each, attached to the 
bottom of its cell. Style growing to, or blended with the tube’ 
of the corol. Stigma large, funnel-shaped, obliquely-incurved | 
or hooked towards the anther. Capsule short, turbinate,’ 
three-sided, pretty smooth, size of a gooseberry, three- 
celled, three-valved, opening from the apex. Seed solitary,’ 
nearly round, smooth, dark grey, resting on a small, squami-’ 
form aril, which is attached to and surrounds the short um-" 
bilical cord which unites: the seed to the bottom of the par- 
hc: ' ee weber presstattha. ‘inmer € thin and: 
deaauiet repleoieih a soreen seine: penetrates: fom the’ eo 
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