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414 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Stj/rOX. 



and a half or two broad. Stipules none. Peduncles axil- 

 lary, but chiefly from the old axils on the two to three 

 year old branches, solitary, or in pairs, very short, from 

 five to twenty flowered, smooth. Pedicels much long- 

 er than the peduncles, smooth, clavate, highly coloured, 

 pendulous, having the apex enlarged into a saucer-shap- 

 ed receptacle for the germ. Flowers large, (two inches 

 long,) pendulous, of a variegated pink and red colour, 

 with the mouth greenish. Bractes some triangular scales 

 at the base and divisions of the peduncle. Calyx supe- 

 rior, five-parted. Segments smooth, conical, and acute. 

 Corol one-petalled. Tube considerably gibbous toward 

 the middle ; the shades of colour appear imbricated, and 

 acuminate ; mouth five-cleft ; segments taper, rather ob 

 tuse, and greenish. Filaments ten, short, scariose, some- 

 times slightly united at the base, inserted partly on the 

 crown of the germ, and the base of the tube of the corol 

 on the inside. Anthers linear, of a bright rust colour, two- 

 celled, crowned with a very long, scariose, bright, gold 

 coloured horn, which reaches to the mouth of the corol, 

 and united their whole length into a tube round the style. 

 Germ inferior, um-shaped, five-celled, with many ovulain. 

 each, attached to the axis. Style the length of the corol. 

 Stigma five-lobed. Berries inferior, turbinate, crowned 

 with the permanent calyx, the size of a small cherry, suc- 

 culent ; when ripe the colour is a mixture of red and yel- 

 low, five-celled. Seeds many, linear-oblong, inserted as 

 in the germ. Integument single. Perisperm conform to 

 the seed, soft, and clammy. Embryo nearly straight, cy- 

 lindric. Cotyledons two. Radicle columnar, apex at the 

 umblicus (centripetal.) 



STYRAX. Schreh. gen. n. 753. 



Calyx five-toothed. Corol one-petalled, five-cleft. 

 Germ superior, one ceiled, many-seeded ; attachment in- 



