SARRACEH^IA. 



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hollow and containing water. 

 The floweis, one or more, 5- 

 parted, periect and complete, 

 are large, solitary, mounted and 

 nodding on a naked scape. 



The calyx consists of 5 ovate, 

 spreading, colored sepals subtended by 3 bractlets. The 

 corolla is of 5 obovate, incurved petals covering the broad 

 style, and the many hypogynous stamens. 



The ovary is glabrous, 5-carpelled, 5-celled ; the style 

 short, expanding at the top into a broad umbrella-shaped or 

 peltate (i. e., shield-shaped) membrane, bearing the 5 stigmas 

 in the notches of the 5 rhombic lobes. The matured fruit is 

 a capsule with 5 cells opening by 5 valves, having the pla- 

 centae in the axis, or inner angle of the cells. The seeds are 

 numerous, anatropous, with a small embryo in much albumen. 



