720 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Posoqueria, 
late, acuminate, permanent. Corol, outside sericeous. Tube 
rather shorter than the calyx, shut about he middle with a. 
valve of fine white hairs pointing up. Border of five, obo- 
vate segments. laments scarcely any. Anthers linear, 
spreading. Germ turbinate, two-celled, ovula numerous, 
attached to a far-projecting receptacle from the centre of 
each side of the partition. Style rather longer than the tube 
of the corol, swelled toward the middle. . Stigma oblong, 
two-lobed. Berries broad, ovate-cordate, polished, size of 
a prune, crowned with the remaining tube of the calyx ; two- 
celled, Seeds numerous, &c. &c. as in the other species. 
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