720 PENTANDRIA MONOCYNIA. PoSOquerid. 



late, acuminate, permanent. Corol, outside sericeous. Tube 

 rather shorter than the calyx, shut about the middle with a 

 valve of fine white hairs pointing up. Border of five, obo- 

 vate segments. Filaments scarcely any. Anthers linear, 

 spreading. Germ turbinate, two-celled, ovula numerous, 

 attached to a far-projecting receptacle from the centre of 

 each side of the partition. Style rather longer than the tube 

 of the corol, swelled toward the middle. Stigma oblong', 

 two-lobed. Berries broad, ovate-cordate, polished, size of 

 a prune, crowned with the remaining tube of the calyx ; two- 

 celled. Seeds numerous, &c. &c. as in the other species. 



