NEW SPECIES OF CRESCENTIA. 423 
rescence, sometimes being lateral, and sometimes anterior 
and posterior. Corolla inferior, monopetalous, campanulate, 
taking its rise from between the base of the calyx and a disk 
which surrounds the base of the ovary, lower side of the tube 
doubled in transversely about the middle; limb subbilabiate, 
upper lip 2-lobed, lower 3-lobed, lobes much acuminated 
and irregularly lacinated, the middle one of the lower lip 
broader than the others, the upper ones nearly plane, the 
lower one plicate longitudinally, structure fleshy, the outside 
thickly covered with minute pellucid glands, colour greenish 
yellow, with the reticulated veins of the lobes purplish ; zesti- 
vation imbricate. Stamens 4, didynamous, with the rudiment 
of a fifth between the two posterior ones, arising at nearly 
.— equal distances from each other near the bottom of the cor- 
- . olla, included ; filaments thick, all nearly of the same length, 
but the anterior ones appear shorter by separating from 
the corolla a little further down than the posterior ones; 
anthers 2-lobed, attached to the filament by their upper end, 
divergent below, lobes one-celled, cells bursting inwards lon- 
gitudinally. Pollen globose, white. Ovary superior, oblong, 
seated within a yellow annular disk, 1-celled, with four fleshy 
= parietal polyspermous placente, placed one on each half of 
- the pericarpal leaves, and at equal distances from each other. 
— . .Qeules horizontal; style 1, about the length of the stamens, 
flattened towards the top ; stigma formed of two broad plates. 
Fruit a large perfectly globose, smooth, green berry, from |. 
6—8 inches in diameter, bearing on its top the scar of the — 
. deciduous style, and on its bottom the annular disk ; pericarp: | 
.. woody, consisting of two indehiscent carpels, placed anterior - 
and posterior to the axis of the inflorescence. Pulp fleshy, 
formed by the increase and union of the placentae, in which 
the seeds ultimately nidulate irregularly. Seeds roundish, 
flattened; testa coriaceous, loose; albumen none; embryo  — 
erect ; cotyledons 2, thick, orbicular, emarginate, and cordate. — 
