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St am. Filaments, if any, very short. Anthers > five, 



awled, erect, converging at the top. 

 Pist. Germ above, pcdicelled, spheroidal, girt with 



a nectareous ring. &tyh thread-form, rather awled. 



Stigma simple. 

 Per. Capsule one-celled; one-seeded, roundish, 



hispid. 



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Seed oval, very minute, glossy. 

 Flowers raceme - panicled, greenish - white, very 

 small, scented like those of the hawthorn, but far 

 sweeter ; and thence the Portuguese called them 

 honey -fl oilers. 

 Peduncles axillary, russet ; pedicles many - flowered. 

 Branchlets milky- Leaves opposite, lance -oval, 

 pointed at both ends, most entire veined ; above, 

 dark green ; below, pale. Stipules linear, axillary, 

 adhering. Stem climbing, round, of a russet hue, 

 rimmed at the insertion of the short petiols. 

 The ripe Fruit of this elegant climber, which 

 Ca'l ida's mentions in his poem of the Seasons, has 

 been seen by me only in a very dry state ; but i: 

 seemed that the hispid appearance of the capsules, 

 or berries, which in a microscope looked exactly like 

 the burrs in Van Rheede's engraving, was caused 

 by the hardened calyxes and fringe of the permanent 

 corols; the seeds in each burr were numerous, and 

 like black-shining sand - 3 for no single pericarp could 

 be disengaged from it ; and it is described as one- 

 seeded merely from an inspection of the dissected 

 germ. Before I had seen the fruit, I thought the 

 Sjama very nearly connected with the Shrubby A.P0- 



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