= -. MONANDRIA MONOGYNTA, Circuma, 
nérally sterile, and of a deeper crimson, or purple'colour, 
than those which contain flowers. Calyx superior ; scarcely 
_ one-third the length of the corol, irregularly three-toothed, 
pellucid.. Corol funnel-shaped. Tube a little curved. 
Border double; exterior three-parted, the two lateral seg-" 
ments equal; the third or upper one vaulted and trowniell? 
With a subulate point ; colowr'a very faint yellow. Interior 
three-parted ; lower segment, or lip, broad, deep yellow, 
projecting, recurved, bifid; upper or lateral segments obo-- 
vate, equal, pale yellow, iibsily as long as the lip. Fila- 
ment short. Anther double, the lower end of each lobe ter-' 
minating in a long, sharp, subulate spur. Germ beneath, 
hairy, three-celled, with many ovula in’each, attached tothe 
inner erase of _ ‘cell — uel the base, ebavicot 
the anther. Capnite oval, stb of a pit adtaw cooing 
thin’ and‘ nearly pellucid ; three-celled, but without é any re- 
gular division into valves: when the seeds are ripe the elas-’ 
ticity of the segments of the arils bursts the vertex into vari- 
ous portions, from whence the seeds are soon’ ‘expelled. 
Seeds soothe in each ‘cell, arilled; shape various, but the’ 
i. ng is Eeblong. Aril cut to the very base into® 
r, unequal, white, fleshy segments, which are 
united to the Bere the umbilicus, Integuments twos) 
exterior spongy, with highly polished slippery; light brown’ 
surface ; interior membranaceous.. ‘Perisperm pure’ white,’ 
hard ‘but friable, and ‘occupies the lower half ‘of the seed: 
Vitellus clearer, but less white and of a tougher’ consistence’ 
than the albumen ; it forms or occupies the upper half - we 
— sarees ae early as — as ies = — ding 
ved and — a in em albumen, o or | ; 
al wood of the esac ‘ies 
