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The inner margin of the annulus coronalis disci, directed 
towards the side of the column, carries the anthers and has a 
serrated outline. There are 39 “teeth” triangular ‘capes’ divided 
from each other by the same number of deep, concave lodges, 
in which the anthers are accommodated. The sharp crest of the 
“capes” carry very many rather long, stiff, brown hairs, diver- 
ging to both sides. 
The anthers are slightly flattened, ball shaped, white bodies, 
reminding one of a vaccinium flower. At their top they bear 
a large drop of a puslike sticky emulsion, containing the pollen, 
formed in small cavities in the interior of the anthers and 
pushed out through a fine topvalve. This valve is directed up- 
wards and inwards into the sulcus coronalis infradiscoidalis. 
In this same infradiscoidal groove, on the side wall of the 
column, lodges are found, broad above and narrow below, one 
in front of each other. They are 7 mM. broad above and ter- 
minate 1 cM. above the superior columnar ring with a rounded 
end 2 mM. broad. 
Between these lodges we correspondingly find ridges, broad 
below, narrowing upwards and terminating as sharp cristae, 
running out into the “capes” of the interior margin of the disc. 
The ridges and crests are richly provided with divergent hairs, 
whereas the lodges are absolutely hairless. 
A vertical section through the column finally shews this to 
be a solid mass of white parenchym. 
2 Of a female flower, 55 cM. long and 45 cM. broad we make 
the following: statements: 
Diameter of the cupula: 9 cM. 
Diameter of the basis columnae (between the bracteae): 12 eM. 
Diameter of the narrowest part of the column, just under 
the disc (5 cM. above the base of the column): 7 cM. 
Diameter of the dise (inferior margin): 13 cM. 
Diameter of the disc (superior margin): 15,5 cM. 
Number of processus disci: 24 (in other female specimens I 
found 36, 37, 38 and 40 resp). 
Of the width and the-haircover of the annulus coronalis disci 
in the female flower I possess no notes, which is very regret- 
