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been placed in a genus SaccocjhUk^ there are besides these ten fer- 

 tile stamens, where the disproportion between the anther cells 

 and the connective is most pronoimced, ten interposed staminodes 

 represented by as many subulate tongues united below to the 

 fertile stamens. These staminodes become fertile in their turn in 

 most of the American species, constituting in the genus a sec- 



Houiuirt areiiarimn. 



Bud. 



Fig. 90. 

 without 



Fig. 91, 92. Long. sect, of 

 gynaeceum aud gjnteceiun. 



Fig. 9.3-95. Stamen face, 

 back and long, section. 



tion Ilumirium (fig. 90). In another section bearing the name 

 Vantanca ^ (fig. 96, 97) the stamens are all fertile and still 

 more numerous, for from twenty to thii-ty have been counted, and 

 even as many as fifty or sixty. The gynteceum is free and superior, 

 formed of an ovary with five altcmipetalous cells,^ surrounded at the 

 base by a disk which is thick, cii'cular, almost entire, or more or less 

 thin, membraneous, unequally cut upon the edges, or deeply divided 

 into ten or fifteen pointed tongues. The style is simple, cylinckical, 

 erect, swollen at apex into a small stigmatifcrous head almost entu'o 

 or slightly lobed. In the inner angle of each cell is seen a placenta 

 supporting two descendent ovules, with micropyle directed outwards 

 and upwards, and collateral, or nearly superposed by the elongation 

 of the funicle of one of them : the other may abort more or less 



guliiriipon tliG equator; thepapiUse pretty large 

 upon the bands of the angles. 



1 Mart. Xov. Oen. cl Spec. ii. 146. — Endl. 

 Ocii. n. 518.5. — II. Bn. in Adaiisoiiia, i. 208 ; .\. 

 368.— B. H. Gen. 217, n. 3. 



2 Aui;l. Gmmi. 572, t. 220.— J. Oen. 434.— 

 Em)L. Goi. n. 5383.— B. II. Gen. 246, n. 1.— H. 



Bn-. in Adaiisonia, x. 368. — Lemiu'seia Schreh. 

 Oen. 358. — //c/to-m. Nees ctllAUT. in Nov. Act. 

 Kat. Citr.xii. 38, t. 7 — Exdl. Gc». n. 5487. — H. 

 Bx. in Adaiisnuia. i. 209. 



' They are sometimes incomplete ; sometimes 

 they arc more than five in number. 



