Phrynium. monandria monogynia. 3 



embracing between them a two-flowered pedicel. Flowers 

 paired, on a common pedicel, from the alternate joints of the 

 rachis, large, pure white. Pedicels clavate, thick, white, 

 and fleshy, near the apex two-parted; divisions unequal, 

 with two glands at their ends like the rudiments of flowers. 

 Calyx above, three-leaved; leaflets oblong-conic, tapering to 

 an acute point, and much shorter than the tube of the corol. 

 Corol one-petalled, irregular. Tube funnel-shaped. Border 

 double ; exterior of three, equal, linear-oblong, recurved 

 segments. Inner elevated far above the exterior on a con- 

 tinuation of the tube, and consists of five very unequal por- 

 tions : the exterior two are larger, obcordate, with waved, 

 expanding margins; the third or middle one stands opposite 

 to the first two, is broad, obcordate, deeply emarginate, and 

 of a middling size between the two exterior, and two interior 

 segments; on the inside near the base a semilunar body 

 which projects inward between the anther and stigma ; the 

 inner two small, and crown the mouth of the tube, closely 

 embracing the stigma and anther. Filament short, attach- 

 ed to the margin of the smallest segment of the interior bor- 

 der of the corol. Anther erect, simple, ovate-oblong. In 

 this species, as well as in P. capilatum, the pollen consists of 

 remarkably large round grains. Germ inferior, villous, three- 

 celled, with one ovulum in each, attached to the bottom of its 

 cell. Style growing to the inside of the tube of the corol, 

 and does not appear until above its mouth, when it enlarges 

 into an infundibuliform, hooked stigma, surrounded with a 

 lobate, callous margin, and directed in an oblique manner 

 toward the face of the anther, as if in search of it, though 

 separated by a callous projection from the base of the middle 

 division of the inner border of the corol. Capsule broad, 

 turbinate, size of a cherry, rugose, somewhat three-lobed, 

 three-celled, three- valved, opening from the apex. Seed so- 

 litary, round, resting on a small, partial, scaly aril. Integu- 

 ments two ; exterior soft and spongy, inner nuciform. Pe~ 

 risperm conform to the seed, horny, tinged blue ; a fissure 



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