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or anterior one larger ; a double linear band running along the 

 centre of each. Interior and upper border fleshy, four-parted, 

 unequal. The posterior division large, ascending from a con- 

 tracted base, expanding rhomboidally ; margin a little wavy, 

 and obscurely three-lobed, centrally grooved half way up. 

 The second, or what may be called the staminal division, half 

 the length of the former, erect from the opposite side of the 

 rim of the tube, linear nearly to half its height, then abruptly 

 expanding in breadth and thickness to nearly double, lopped 

 and tooth-like at the top, sloping inwardly into a shovel-like 

 vaginal hollow, to receive the stigma and upper part of the 

 style ; a slight score bisecting it externally, and ending in 

 an obsolete notch above. Third and fourth divisions ex- 

 actly opposite to each other, and between the two former 

 a pair of short, horizontal, horn-like processes slightly 

 twisted, straitening the mouth of the tube and dividing it 

 unequally. 



Stamen with no filament, two pair of parallel antherous lines 

 lying on the inner thickened part of the second division, 

 contiguous below, but with their conical points free, and 

 projecting into the mouth of the tube, diverging upwards to 

 receive the expanded stigma and upper part of the style, 

 their surface, and the space they inclose, heaped with glo- 

 bules of farina soon bursting into the finest pollen. 



Fistillum. shorter than the corolla, and of the length of the 

 stamen. 



Germen a lopped oval, smooth. Two conical segments erect 

 from one side of its top contiguous to each other, half 

 sheathing the style. 



Style coaical at its origin, then thread-like, lastly enlarging at 



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