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Inner border or labium, very large; when expanded, three 

 inehes broad, and two and three quarters long-, .somewhat 

 three lobed, the two lateral semi-circular and incurved into 

 a tube ; the middle one smaller, more projected, curled, and 

 sometimes bifid ; from the base on each side an incurved, 

 sharp spur. Filament about as long- as the large, broad, deeply 

 bifid,. obtuse, two lobed anther. Nectary of Konig ; in most of 

 the other plants of this order, I have found this part to consist 

 of two distinct bodies, here ii is of one, very thick and short, 

 with its truncated apex tuberculate. Germ inferior, obovate, 

 hairy, three-celled, with many ovula in each, attached to cen- 

 tral receptacles. Style toward the apex, hairy. Stigma ris- 

 ing erect through the bifid apex of the anther, funnel-shaped, 

 hairy. Capsule obovate, spheroidal, size of a very large 

 gooseberry, armed with short, sharp, stiff, slender bristles; 

 when ripe nearly dry, and yellow, three-celled, threc-valved. 

 Seeds numerous, ovate, oval, or obovate, immersed in a large 

 portion of a soft pulpy matter, which in the immature state 

 form distinct arils; on each side, and round the apex a 

 groove. Integuments two, brown, and rather thin. Peris- 

 perm cartilaginous, cloven at both ends by a brown spongy 

 fissure, but deepest from the apex. Vitelhts, the centre of 

 each of the superior limbs of the perisperm, is occupied by a 

 small, thin, oblong body of a clearer colour ; and widely dis- 

 tinct from both embryo and perisperm. Embryo, the upper 

 part crescent-shaped, with its horns projecting into the limb 

 of the perisperm, and in some degree into the vitellus. Ra- 

 dicle inferior, projecting straight from the convex, or under 

 side of the crescent, with its base to the umbilicus. 



Obs. This is the most beautiful plant of the whole senus. 

 even surpassing A. nutans, which 1 believe the Botanical 

 ttepository considers a species of Renealmia. 



5. A. nutans. Roscoe in Trans, of Linn. Soc. 8. 346. 

 Leaves lanceolar, short-petioled, smooth. Racemes com- 

 pound, by the lower pedicels being two or three-flowered, " 



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