706 MONOECIA SYNGENESIA, T'richosanthes. 
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the apex. Bractes solitary, oblong, acute, thick, and firm. 
Calyx one-leaved, funnel-shaped clothed on the outside with 
much ferruginous, mealy pubescence; mouth five-toothed, — 
with one, two, or three smooth, elevated, chesnut coloured, 
small glands on the outside of each tooth. Corol five-parted, 
inserted on the mouth of the calyx; segments sub-obcor- 
date, retuse, with an acute point in the centre, having half of 
the outside, which was exposed to the weather before ex- 
pansion, coloured brown, the rest pale yellowish white ; the 
exterior margins wonderfully perforated and fringed with 
most beautiful, very long, spiral, pendulous, villous, yellow 
threads, Filaments three, from the mouth of the tube of the 
calyx under the corol, clavate, Anthers united, forming a 
broad inverted cone ; variously grooved with the pollinifer- 
ous, worm-like cells, Pistidlum’ not any appearance of this 
organ, FEMALE FLOWERS sometimes on a distinct plant. 
Peduneles ‘axillary, cylindric, dark brown, rather more than 
one inch long, one-flowered. Sometimes, though rarely, they 
are also’ on a raceme, which is very short compared ‘with 
that of the male flowers. Calyx and carol as in the male. 
Stamina none. Germ inferior, broad-cordate> deep brown, 
studded, with elevated, paler coloured specks, one-celled, 
containing six pairs of ovula attached to the base of the three 
receptacles, and separated by much spongy, juicy pulp. 
Style the length of the tube of the calyx and adhering to it, 
except at the base and apex. Stigma large, three-lobed ; 
lobes emarginate. Berry oblately spheroidal, somewhat vil- 
~ lous, apex somewhat pointed, of the size of a shaddock, be- 
ing about five or six inches in diameter, when dry; brittle, 
one-celled. Seeds six; when all come.to maturity, which is 
common, sub-reniform, unequally two-lobed ; the fertile lobe 
about three inches long, by nearly two broad, and about oue 
in thickness, convex or circular on the exterior edge, straight 
on the inner one, with the apex rounded, and tlie base less s0 ; 
the abortive lobe is much ‘smaller, but of the same form. 
Integumenis three, the exterior one a perfect, very hard, lig- 
