'JO'S Mr. Konig's Observations on the Dnrion, 



Stamina: Filamenta plurima $& — 45), filiformia, rubra, erecta, 

 petalis paululum longiora (ante efflorcscentiam multum bre- 

 viora), subdichotoma, connata infra medium iu phalanges 

 quinque petalis oppositas, fundoque calycis insertas. Antherce 

 rotundatse, mesenteritbrmes : lamella; curvatae, subpedicellatae, 

 rubra?, marginibus albis. 



PlSTIXLUM: Ovarium superum, ovato-oblongum, obsolete pen- 

 tagonum, primo squamulis argenteis postea granidis undique 

 obsitum, neutiquam stipitatum. Stylus simplex, longitudine 

 et colore filamentdruitt, teres, filiformis, basi crassior, supeme 

 subintortus. Stigma eapitatum, quinquesulcatum, flavens. 



Fkuctus: Fomuin maximum, ovato-rotundatum s. rotundum, in 

 Veftice umbonatum, quinqueloculare, eorticatum : Cortex cras- 

 sus, duriusculus, undique obsitus tuberculis 5— hexaedris, pyra- 

 midatis, suberosis, innocue mueronatis, fibrosis, thivo-vhescen- 

 tibus, medio fructus pollicaribus, versus extremitates minori- 

 bus, ad pedunculum crassum in squamas conicas abeuntibus. 

 Caro solida, fibris rubentibus intertexta. Loculamenta quinque, 

 longitudine fere fructus, cxtrorsum dcliiscentia, undique laevi- 

 gata exeepto latere pistillari* cum quo semina, mediantibus 

 arillis, arete connata sunt, 



Semina in singulo loculamento 2 — 5, nitida, spadieeo-lutea, 

 ovato-oblonga, bine convexa hide planiuscula, ab altero latere 



versus basin derasa, arillata. 



* 

 ' * An excellent carpologist, Dr. Correa de Serra (Linn. Trans, vol. 5. . p. 222), calls 

 chorda pistillaris that aggregation of longitudinal fibres and vessels, which in most fleshy 

 fruits may be traced from their insertion in the receptacle up to the stigma, and to which 

 the seeds are affixed. This bundle is less obvious in the fruit of the Burton, the whole of 

 its flesh being interwoven with fibres; but still it exists: whence I apply the term of 

 Itttiis pistillate to the side of the loculaments next to the centre of the fruit. 



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