Gardneria. I'etrandria monogynia. iiQi 



divided iuto four-concave, orbicular, ciliated, alternately imbrlcatinor 

 lacinicc. — Corol \h\ck and ieatliery, yellow, deeply four-parted; lad- 

 ma. ovate, acute, slighty concave, very spreading, almost recurved, 

 about two lines long, alternating with those of the calyx and with the 

 insertion of the stamens, covered above, particularly towards the 

 thickened apex with a sericeous down, margins broad and flat- dur- 

 ing the aestivation they are valvate. — Tube none. — Stamens four, 

 erect, somewhat shorter than the corol. Filaments scarcely percep- 

 tible, insrrted at the bottom of the corol just below the fissures. 

 Anthers ovate, acute, and free at both ends, tleshy in the middle; 

 -the sides uniting into a ventricose, pervious, four-toothed tube ; with- 

 in, towards their margins, they are two-celled; the cells separated by 

 a longitudinal partition, which becomes free and keel-formed at their 

 bursting. — Occrn'/^w above, and perfectly distuict from the calyx, 

 ovate, minute, two-celled, two-seeded: ovula attached to the centre 

 of the partition. — Stj//e filiform, shorter than the tube of the an- 

 thers. — Stigma simple? acute. — Berry superior, round, somewhat 

 depressed, suiooth, crowned with the persistent base of the style, 

 supported by the calyx, scarlet, about the size of a large Cur- 

 rant, fleshy, two-celled, two-seeded. Pulp pale red. — Dissepiment 

 very thin, membranaceous, marked on each side with some vessels 

 disposed in the form of a cross. — Placenta fleshy, short, originating 

 from the centre of the dissepiment, entering the cavity of the seed 

 and filling it entirely with a soft pulp. — Seed solitary in each cell, 

 very thin, bullate and excavated in the shape of a hemispherical cup 

 with a flat somewhat widened, exactly circular m ugin, gibbous at 

 the back, smooth on both sides, of a grayish brown colour.— f/j/e- 

 guweyif single, coriaceous, closely adhering to the horny, pearl-colour- 

 ed Perisperm, which hcis exactly the form of the seed. — Emhri/9 

 dicotyledoneous, erect, cylindiical, adscending, from ?ibove the infe- 

 rior portion of the margin, about one-third the length of the seed, 

 slightly curved, nn\k-\\Wite.—Cuti//edons leafy, lanceolate, flat, parel- 

 lel to the sides of the seed. Radicle cylindric, inferior and slight- 

 ly centripetal, twice as long as the cotyledoas, its apex situated im- 



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