290 | Mr. J. Miers on Goupia. 
position of Goupia, it will be necessary to detail minutely all 
that I have observed during a very careful examination of its 
floral and seminal structure. It has a small cup-shaped calyx 
covered with a dense short pile, and is deeply divided into five 
acute erect teeth, which have an imbricated estivation. The 
corolla consists of five linearly oblong, glabrous, fleshy petals, 
more than six times the length of the calyx, their straight mar- 
gins being deeply introflexed and valvate in estivation ; and their 
appendiciform apices, measuring half their length, are suddenly 
inflected and united together in the axis of the flower by their 
valvate margins; they originate in the bottom of the calyx out- 
side and around the disk, being alternate with the calycine 
teeth; when the flower opens, they become horizontally ex- 
panded, with the inflected apices standing erect at right angles 
with them. The disk forms a notable feature in this structure, 
being nearly the size of the calyx, quite cup-shaped, with five 
very short teeth, which alternate with the stamens. The five 
stamens are erect, and stand within the disk, free from it as well 
as from the ovary; the filaments are short, subulate, and gla- 
brous, supporting a much broader and thicker linear connective, 
which, extending beyond the anthers, is truncated at its summit, 
where it is furnished in front with a horizontal tuft of long 
hairs, its margins, behind the anthers, being ciliated with similar 
hairs: the anthers are bilobed, cordate at base, double the 
breadth of the connective, to which they are attached by their 
whole length; they are introrse, each lobe opening by a longi- 
tudinal and somewhat oblique fissure; one-half of each anther 
rises above the margin of the disk, and their long apical hori- 
zontal tufts of hair meet in the middle of the ovary, passing 
between the styles, thus serving as collectors to convey their 
pollen to them. The ovary is spherical, five-grooved, and some- 
what depressed in the centre, where a small umbonate point is 
seen; and at some distance from this centre five distinct styles 
originate, which are rather short, very distant from each other, 
somewhat erect and divergent, there being no distinguishable 
stigmata, except their merely glandular points; the ovary has 
five equal complete cells ranged round a central axis, the dis- 
sepiments corresponding with the external grooves and alter- 
nating with the styles; there are several ovules in each cell, all 
standing erect and crowded together at the base of the inner 
angles of the cells. The fruit is spherical, and 2 lines in dia- 
meter; it has been incorrectly described as a berry, but its 
fleshy sarcocarp encloses an indehiscent 83—5-grooved, 3—5-celled 
nut, the walls and dissepiments of which, though very thin, are 
crustaceous ; each cell contains one, more generally two or three, 
erect black seeds. The seed is oval when it is solitary, plane- 
