MALVACH A. 81 
and reflexed in anthesis. The stamens are monadelphous ; 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. 

Fie. 124. 
Fruit-bearing branch (+), 

Fra. 128, Fie, 126. Fig. 129. 
Seed. Diagram. 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,’ 
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. Mout, in Ana. Sc. Nat. sér. 
jected. The pollen is ovoid, with three folds, and 2, iii. 334.) 
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