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SEN. J. CORREA DE MELLO ON A 'NEW SPECIES OF ALIBERTIA. 
crowned by the disk, scarcely depressed in the centre, surrrounded by a slightly elevated ring 
arising from the base of the calycine tube (fig. 14), glabrous, smooth, shining, green before 
maturity, fuscous black when ripe; epicarp (proceeding from the calyx) subcoriaceous, enclosing 
a pulp of a fuscous green colour, of the consistence of an electuary, edible, and of a sweet pleasant 
flavour, produced from the dissepiments, carpels, and placentæ, in which a number of seeds (more 
than twenty) are imbedded. Seeds oval or elliptic, compressed, obtuse at both extremities, some- 
what angular (fig. 19), in different positions (horizontal, erect, pendent, £c.); integument thin, 
greenish in the recent state, thinly membranaceous and fuscous when dry; albumen rigidly fleshy, 
and white when recent (becoming of a purplish colour when preserved in alcohol), cartilaginous, 
white and subtranslucid in the dried state; embryo straight; radicle included and obtuse; coty- 
ledons flat, oval, rounded, and obtuse (fig. 20). 
Campinas, Prov. $. Paulo, Brazil. 
15 Feb. 1869. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE XLV. 
Branch with 9 flowers. 
Branch with ¢ flowers. 
Calyx of 4 and style. 
Corolla laid open. 
Front, and fig. 4, back view of anther. 
Transverse section of anther. 
Vertical section of male calyx and rudi- 
Intlorescence of 4. 
Horizontal section of ovary. 
Fig. 10. Vertical section of upper part of ovary 
and style. 
Fig. 11. Bud of ¢ flower. 
Fig. 12. Vertical, and fig. 18, horizontal section 
of fruit before induration. 
Fig. 14. Ripe fruit. i 
Fig. 15. Peduncle and vertical section of ovary. 
Fig. 16. Placenta covered with ovules. 
Fig. 17. Lateral, and fig. 18, dorsal view of ovule. 
Fig. 19. Seed. À f 
Fig. 20. The same cut open, showing the embryo. 
All but figs. a, B, 8, 12, 13, 14, and 19 magnified. 
