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apical portion in flower but afterwards strict In fruit; bracts 

 «mall, shortly petioled. leaf-like, patent, spuriously opposite, 

 trisected Into 3 entire or pauci-crenato-lobate ovate or oblong 

 segments, furnished with usually connate stipulaceous vaginae 

 at the base. Flowers nutant, about 7-10 mm. or a little 

 more In diameter ; receptacle disk-shaped, somewhat semlspheer- 

 ical, truncato-rounded and usuallj' slightly concave at the base, 

 afterwards in fruit verj' much enlarged Into a fleshy short tube 

 enclosing the apical portion of the pedicel. Calyx petalold, 

 nearly patent, deciduous ; sepals 5, more or less unequal In size, 

 oblong In the outer ones, obovato-oblong and slightly larger in 

 the inner ones, entire, rounded-obtuse with obscure and minute 

 crenatures at the apex, thinly membranaceous, provided with 

 very fine greenish nerves, whitish but with viridescent hue In 

 the basal portion, the outer ones usual!}' stained with purple 

 colour, attaining about 9 mm. in length. Petals 5, nectarlform, 

 much shorter than the sepals, 4-5i mm. long, erect-patent, 

 long-unguiculate, deciduous ; lamina minute, bright yellow, 

 inflexed as to form a deltoid-semiorbicular compressed hood, 

 1-1^ mm. long, lJ-2 mm. broad, bifid at the apex, thinly 

 membranaceous, smooth, 3-nerved ; anguis stout-filiform, a 

 little enlarged In the middle portion, white, with a sunk nerve, 

 about 3-4-tImes long of the lamina. Stamens rather numerous, 

 unequal In length, the longest ones equal to the petals In height ; 

 anther small, ovato-orbicular, whitish, with oblong cells adnate 

 along the connective, dehiscent sidewise ; pollen whitish, ellipsoid 

 with both obtuse ends, smooth, longitudinally 3-fu r rowed ; 

 filament filiform, with a sunk nerve. Ovaries 2, a little con- 

 nate at the base, erect, glabrous, oblong, slightly curved inwards, 

 rounded and singly costate on the back, angular in the lateral 

 and ventral sides, undulate on the surface, acute towards the 

 the style at the apex, about 2* mm. long, 1-celled, thinly 

 walled, with a vertical hairy line on the back internally ; ovules 

 minute, usually 10-12, 2-serial, with a short funlcle, ascending, 

 obovato-elllptlcal, smooth, anatropous, greenish ; style terminal, 

 nearly equal to or a little longer than the ovary, arcuate out- 

 wards, filiform, green ; stigma white, very minutely papillose, 



