706 MONOECiA SYNGENESiA. Tricliosatit/ies. 



the apex. Bractes solitary, oblong, acute, thick, and firm. 

 Cahjx one-leaved, funnel-shaped clothed on the outside with 

 much ferruginous, mealy pubescence; mouth five-toothed, 

 with one, two, or three smooth, elevated, chesnut coloured, 

 small glands on the outside of each tooth. Corol five-parted, 

 inserted on the mouth of the calyx ; segments sub-obcor- 

 date, retuse, with an acute point in the centre, having half of 

 the outside, which was exposed to the weather before ex- 

 pansion, coloured brown, the rest pale yellowish white ; the 

 exterior margins wonderfully perforated and fringed with 

 most beautiful, very long, spiral, pendulous, villous, yellow 

 threads. Filaments three, from the mouth of the tube of the 

 calyx under the corol, clavate. Anthers united, forming a 

 broad inverted cone ; variously grooved with the pollinifer- 

 ous, worm-like cells. Pistillnni not any appearance of this 

 or"an. Female flowers sometimes on a distinct plant. 

 Peduncles axillary, cylindric, dark brown, rather more than 

 one inch long, one-flowered. Sometimes, though rarely, they 

 are also on a raceme, which is very short compared with 

 that of the male flowers. Calyx and corol as in the male. 

 Stamina none. Genu inferior, broad-cordate, deep brown, 

 studded with elevated, paler coloured specks, one-celled, 

 containing six pairs of ovula attached to the base of the three 

 receptacles, and separated by much spongy, juicy pulp. 

 Style the length of the tube of the calyx and adhering to it, 

 except at the base and apex. Stigma large, threc-lobed ; 

 lobes emarginate. Berry oblately spheroidal, somewhat vil- 

 lous, apex somewhat pointed, of the size of a shaddock, be- 

 ing about five or six inches in diameter, when dry, brittle, 

 one-celled. Seeds six, when all come to maturity, which is 

 common, sub-reniform, unequally two-lobed ; the fertile lobe 

 about three inches long, by nearly two broad, and about one 

 in thickness, convex or circular on the exterior edge, straight 

 on the inner one, with the apex rounded, and the base less so j 

 the abortive lobe is nmch smaller, but of the same form. 

 Integnnmils three, the exterior one a perfect, very hard, lig- 



