MALVACEJE. 



81 



and - reflexed in anthesis. The stamens are monadelplious ; they form 

 at their base an urceolus, which surrounds the ovary and bears on 

 its upper part five sterile staminodes superposed to the sepals, and 

 longer than the ovary above which they terminate in a point, in 

 addition to five pairs of oppositipetalous fertile stamens. For each 



Theobroma Cacao. 



Fig. 124. 

 Fruit-bearing branch (\). 



Fig. 128. 

 Seed. 



Fig. 126. 

 Diagram. 



Fig. 129. 

 Longitudinal sect, of seed. 



pair there is a common erect filament and four cells arranged in a 

 cross, two superior and two inferior, each dehiscing outwardly by 

 two longitudinal clefts. Two of these cells represent an anther, 1 

 but sometimes there are six cells, that is to say three anthers to 



1 The superior and inferior cells of the same in water ovoid or spherical, with three papil- 



side belong to the same anther laterally pro- lose bands. (H. Mom, in Ann. Sc. Nat., ser. 



jectcd. The pollen is ovoid, with three folds, and 2, hi. 334.) 



VOL. IV. <* 



