8 ILLUSTRATIONS OF 
peduncles. The calyx is deeply cleft into 5 long sharply- 
pointed, almost linear erect segments ; it is slightly pubescent 
and persistent, it does not increase much in size nor become 
patent as the fruit ripens. The corolla is short and tubular, 
broad in proportion, quite white and smooth, and sensibly 
contracted both in the middle where the filaments are inserted, 
as well as in the mouth; the segments of the border are 
narrow, acuminated and reflected; the estivation is slightly 
induplicate, the inflected edges adhering by their woolly mar- 
gins; near the base of the tube is seen a somewhat fleshy 
ring, which is covered with long, woolly, white, articulated 
hairs. The stamens are equal, short, slender, and glabrous ; 
the anthers, converging around the style above the mouth of 
the tube, are narrow, linear, 2-locular, with parallel adnate 
cells, which burst longitudinally somewhat laterally; the pol- 
len is yellow and farinaceous, and when seen in the micro- 
scope, both in the dried and humid state, is globular with 3 
salient obtuse equidistant points. The ovarium is pyramidal, 
its base being deeply enveloped by a conspicuous fleshy 
orange-coloured disc; the style is conical at base, above which 
it has a broad band of long white hairs, and is quite smooth 
towards the summit, which rises a little above the anthers; 
the stigma is rather large, clavate, somewhat hollow, cup- 
shaped, and fleshy. The berry is of an oblong form, of a 
bright scarlet colour, about 5 an inch long, and 2 wide, api- 
culate at the summit with the persistent base of the style; it 
contains from 16 to 20 rather largé dark brown seeds, enve- 
loped in pulp; these are of a roundish square form, greatly 
flattened, with a small hilum on the marginal edge ; the testa 
is hard, brittle, and rugous, both its surfaces, and especially 
the margin, being densely set with long rigid simple hairs; 
the albumen is fleshy rather compact, and encloses a nearly 
annular, filiform, embryo; the radicle is about one-third the 
length of the embryo, and points towards the hilum, the coty- 
ledons being semiterete and arcuate.* 
* A representation of the above species is shown in Tab. 1. an explana- 
tion of its details being given in the description that accompanies it. 
