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glabrous or slightly pubescent, 1-5 mm. long ; pollen yellow, 

 even circular outline. (See pi. XII., figs. 9 and 10.) 



Pistil absent or represented by a flattened apiculate disc 

 which often shows in transverse section a crude celled 

 structure. 



Female flowers are solitary in axil of leaves, sessile or 

 subse&sile ; peduncle 4 mm. long, and possesses two pairs of 

 bracts which never bear flowers in their axils, but from com- 

 parison one may perceive a similarity with a cymose inflores. 

 cence in which all except the primary flower abort (cf. D. 

 Embryopteris) ; first pair of bracts brown, near base of 

 peduncle and at right angles to antero-posterior axis ; second 

 pair green, hairy, and at right angles to the first. (See 

 pi. XII., figs. 11 and 12.) 



Calyx green, openly campanulate, pubescent ; segments 

 3-4, usually 4, 10 mm. long, deltoid, margin recurved and 

 undulated so as to form a ridge, 2 mm. wide, projecting 

 outwards and downwards, tapering apex. 



Corolla white or yellow, tube 8 mm. wide, when mature 

 15 mm. long and 10 mm. diameter at top, silky pubescent 

 beneath ; segments 3-4, 7-10 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, strongly 

 reflexed or spreading in open flower. 



Staminodes 8, epipetalous, opposite and alternate with 

 corolla segments, 5 mm. long, 0'5 mm. wide; filaments white, 

 hairy, 3 mm. long, adnate to corolla tube at base ; anther* 

 white, barren. (See pi. XII., fig. 13.) 



Pistil with stigmas 3-4, greenish-white : style persistent, 

 5 mm. long ; ovary globose-apiculate, pubescent, 8-celled. 



Fruit solitary, green, nearly glabrous, depressed-globose, 

 apiculate, yellow when ripe, 35 mm. high, 25 mm-, diameter: 

 fruiting calyx enlarged and hemispherical, deep undulating 

 intersegmental grooves, cup for fruit 15 mm. deep. Seeds 

 usually 8 per fruit, thin and flattened, micropylar end slightly 

 recurved, antipolar end straight or rounded, 15-18 mm. long, 

 8-LO mm. wide, 2 mm. thick ; testa olive-brown, shining, 

 not streaked ; endosperm copioug and equable ; embryo 

 white and measures 17 mm. in length. 



