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filaments ; in other cases 10-18 arranged in pairs and singles 

 without fixed orientation ; anthers unequal, reddish-brown, 

 apiculate, apex well pointed with long unicellular hairs to 

 disseminate the pollen, average length 3 mm. ; filaments 

 yellowish-white, glabrous, 1-5 mm. long ; pollen yellow, 

 even outline, circular, feebly granular contents. 



Pistil rudimentary disc, apiculate, densely pubescent. 



The female flowers occur solitary, or as a cyme in the axil 

 of foliage leaves ; when solitary the flower is surrounded 

 with an involucre of small bracteoles suggesting 3-7-flowered 

 inflorescences ; bracteoles with hairy midrib, acute apex, 



9 mm. long, 5 mm. wide. (See pi. XVI., fig. 2). 



Calyzbrovfu, pubescent, cainpanulate in flower measuring 



10 mm. in depth ; segments 5, tapering apex, slightly reflexecl 

 margin, undulating intersegmental groove, pubescent. 



Corolla yellowish-white, 10 mm. diameter, corolla throat 

 wide; segments 5, rotate, acute apex, half of under surface 

 densely pubescent. 



Staminodes 5, epipetalous, alternate with corolla segments, 

 filaments attached near apex of throat ; anthers barren, 

 brown, apiculate with silky brown attenuate hairs as in male ; 

 filaments white, very short. Pistil with 2 stigmas, yellowish- 

 white, style absent ; ovary globose-apiculate covered with 

 dense coating of brown hairs, 4-celled, one ovule in each cell. 



Fruit globose-apiculate covered with long brown hairs 

 when young, but tending to become glabrous when old, 30 

 mm. long, 60 mm. circumference ; fruiting calyx not much 

 enlarged. (See pi. XVI., fig. 5). 



Seeds 2 per fruit, oval-elliptical in shape, with strongly 

 beaked micropyle ; 18 mm. long, 10 mm.lwide, 8 mm. thick ; 

 testa brown, trau aversely striated; endosperm abundant, 

 ruminate. (See pi. XVI., fig. 6). 



Seedlings epigeal ; cotyledons drop, but usually only after 

 persisting as a white lamina, void of palisade tissue, for one 

 or two days. During this time they never develop any 

 chlorophyll though the enhanced epicotyledonary leaves 



