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longitudinal veins: the border is obtusely 5-lobed, and 
crenulated on the margin, in estivation it is deeply plicated, 
the inflected portion being externally covered with soft down, 
which soon entirely disappears; the stamens are the length 
of the corolla, the filaments are fixed near the base in the 
contraction of the tube, which is the only part that is 
pubescent, they are dilated at the base, and ciliated, but are 
tapering and glabrous upwards, two of them are somewhat 
shorter than the others, the anthers are ovate, 2-lobed, some- 
what cordate at base, where they are fixed in the sinus to the 
apex of the filament. The pollen grains are globular, obsoletely 
3-gonous, or rather having 3 indistinct mammiform projections 
at equidistant points, with alternating converging lines. 
The ovarium is slightly stipitate, obovate, sericeous, 2-celled, 
with 8 ovules in each cell, arising from the base of the disse- 
piment, and affixed in 2 series near 2 elevated parallel nerves 
that extend from the base to the apex of the dissepiment. 
The style is slender, glabrous, as long as the corolla; the 
stigma is bilamellated, consisting of two short fleshy lobes, 
with reflected margins, the inner faces being glutinous and 
subpapillose. The capsule is 14 in. long, 4 lines diameter, 
supported by the persistent calyx, the valves are thick and 
coriaceous, each being divided half way down the middle; 
the dissepiment contracts and becomes free as the seeds 
ripen, sometimes only two or four of which are perfected 
in each cell, the entire number being seldom matured. The 
seeds are linear, winged, with a dorsal keel, which is sometimes 
double; the endopleura adheres to the lining of the cell, 
which is filled by the albumen: this is cylindrical, 9 lines 
long, + line broad, straight, thin, and fleshy, and encloses an 
embryo of the same form, with semiterete cotyledons 
of similar thickness, and about the length of the inferior 
radicle.* 
From the above deseription, no doubt can. any longer 
exist as to the true position of Metternichia, which has 
* A figure of this species, eres a ample sectional details is given in 
Plate 14 of this work. 
