170 A BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION OF 



bearing their pollen in two grooves on the inlide, near 

 the apex ; between thefe grooves and the infertions of 

 the filaments they are covered with white foft hairs. 



Pijfil, germs two ; above the nectary they are very 

 hairy round the margins of their truncated tops. Style 

 iinsde, morter than the itamens. Stigma ovate, with 

 a circular band, dividing it into two portions of dif- 

 ferent colours. 



Per. Follicles two, round, laterally comprefTed into 

 the fharie of a turnip, wrinkled, leathery, about three 

 inches in their greateft diameters — one celled, two 

 valved. 



Seeds, very numerous, reniform, immcrfed in firm 

 fiefhy pulp. 



EXPLANATION OF THE FIGURES. 



1. A branchlet in flower, natural lize. 



2. A flower magnified. 



3. The fame laid open, which expofes to view the 

 iituarion of the itamens inferted into the bottom 

 of the corgi, the neclarium furrounding the 

 lower half of the two germs, their upper half 

 with hairy margins, the ftyle and ovate party- 

 coloured ; ftigma appearing above the nectary. 



4. Outlide of one of the Itamens ? , .^ , 



x'n r i e c much magnified. 



5. Inlide oi the lame ' 6 



n. The • turn laid open, expoiing to view the 



whole of the piftil. 



7. The two feed vefTels (called by Linnrr?us follicles), 

 natural lize ; half of one of them is removed, to 

 ffiew the feed immerfed in pulp. A portion 

 thereof is alio cut away, which more clearly 

 ihews the fituation and fhape of the feed. 



From wounds made in the bark of this plant there 

 oozes a milky fluid, which on expofure to the open 



air. 



