836 ILLUSTRATIONS OF 
. tomentum, and near the base of the tube, is seen a semi- 
terete fleshy annular staminiferous ring. The stamens are 
very large and conspicuous, quite glabrous, and alternate 
with the lobes of the corolla; the filaments are united at 
their base into a very short tube, which springs from the 
annular ring alluded to; they are dilated and fleshy, quickly 
expanding beneath the anthers into 2 prominent auricular 
lobes, and terminate in a remarkably large fleshy gibbous con- 
nective supporting the adnate anthers, which consist of 2 
distinct and separate lobes, somewhat divaricate at base, and 
united at their summit by a cervix, forming a bottle-necked 
apex, in which two distinct pores are seen : the lobes, however, 
present a decided longitudinal dehiscence by a central furrow ; 
the summits of the anthers all converge round the style. The 
ovarium is oval, quite smooth, 2-celled, with a broadly lunu- 
late placenta arising from each side of the dissepiment, 
around which numerous ovules are closely arranged. The 
style is short, thick, scarcely longer than the ovarium, it is 
hollow and tubular more than half way down. The stigma 
is a cyathiform fleshy cup, obsoletely 2-lobed, terminating 
the style, having within its mouth 2 fleshy glands. The 
berry grows to a large size; the largest that 1 saw of a 
kindred species which was far from mature, was oblong, and 
nearly 2 inches in length, in which the seeds were not ripe 
enough for examination.* 
2. Pionandra pubescens (n. sp.)—Arbuscula, tota pubescens 
foliis 5-nerviis, obovatis, basi obtusis, vix cordatis, apice 
attenuatis integris, utrinque pubescentibus; racemis secun- 
dis, folio brevioribus.—Rio de Janeiro, Serra Organensi. 
A species much resembling the former; but altogether 
closely pubescent, and of pallid appearance. The leaves are 
more obtuse than cordate at the base, the flowers are smaller, 
not quite so fleshy, but the stamens are hardly so much 
curved. The fruit was, in a very young state, 17 inch long 
* A representation of this species with full details is shown in 
Tab. vuit. 
