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gins, inserted on the segments of the calyx ; apices 

 while, vaulted inwards over the stigma. Anthers linear, 

 two-lobed, attached to the middle of the vault, with their 

 apices outwards. Germ beneath, turbinate, six-sided, 

 crowned with three large, hairy, convex, purple glands, 

 one-celled. Seeds many, attached to three equidistant, pa- 

 rietal receptacles. Style short, rising from the centre of 

 the three purple glands, and evidently composed of 

 three united into one. Stigma broad, peltate, composed 

 of three, two-lobed divisions. Pericarp ; berry nearly 

 round, size of a pigeon's e%%, crowned with the withered 

 calyx, and marked with six, protuberant, equidistant, 

 vertical ribs, smooth, when ripe yellow, one-celled. 

 Receptacles as in the germ. Seeds numerous, attached 

 to the three parietal receptacles, as in the germ, oval, 

 or ovate, longitudinally furrowed, light brown, each en- 

 veloped in a small portion of colourless, succulent pulp, 

 which may be termed a complete aril. Integuments two, 

 exterior spongy ; interior a thin, reticulate, white mem- 

 brane. Perisperm conform to the seed, rather succulent 

 while fresh. Embryo minute, and lodged in the end of 

 the perisperm next to the (umbilicus,) subcentrifugal. 



CANARINA. Schreb. gen. n. 603. 



Calyx six-leaved. Corol companulate. Stigmas six. 

 iJapsule inferior, six-celled, many-seeded. 



C moluccana. R. 



Erect, smooth. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, ovate 

 oblong, serrate, smooth. Floivers terminal, and axillary. 

 Calyx subpinnatifid. 



A native of the Moluccas. The specimens seen are her- 

 baceous. The number six prevails throughout the flow- 

 ers. 



