Venana. pentandria monogynia. <J15 



both sides, perfectly smooth, very pa'lid underneath, with elevated, 

 keeled nb, and alternate obscure nerves; veins almost imperceptible, 

 margins s'.ightly recurved. — Petiol round, recurved, slight y furrow- 

 ed, with a scarcely swelled, jointed base. — Stipules none. — Umhel 

 solitary, lateral, or terminal, nodding, half the length of the leaves, 

 rounded, obscurely bifid, on a compressed, broadish, flaccid pedun- 

 cle which is three times as long as the petiol, somewhat two-lobed, 

 and thickened at the apex — Flowers large, coriaceous, pale green, 

 inodorous, on clavate, rounded pedicels, which are half an inch long, 

 with a number of ovate, fleshy scales surround ng their base. — Ca- 

 lyx cup-shaped, flattish, short, adpressed to the bottom of the corol- 

 la, persistent, with five ovate, acute teeth. — Corolla campanulate, 

 with a wide, five-angled tube and spreading limb; about half an 

 inch long. — JEstivation imbricate. Petals very thick and leathery, 

 broad-oblong, with parallel, sharp, alternately imbricating margins, 

 apex rounded, sub-acute, the inside convex towards the middle; 



base thickened, sub-retuse, inserted on the outside of the nectary 



Filaments five, Meshy, thick, subulate, ascending, a little curved, al- 

 ternating with the petals; anthers oblong, large, erec% slightly con- 

 niving, bilocnlar, bursting along the margins, inserted at their basis. 

 Disc or nectary fleshy, narrow, green, persistent, surrounding the 

 base of the ovary, having five marks on the convex outside for the 

 insertion of the petals ; margins fringed with numerous subulate, 

 s>hort, erect, unequal teeth, among which the filaments are inserted. 

 Ovarium above, large, ovate, five-angled, five-celled, with numerous 

 subulate, transversal ovula, attached to the axis in two series ; it 

 tapers into a very short thick style. Stigma five-lobed, elevated to 

 the base of the anthers; lobes ovate, acute, erect. — Drupe oblong, 

 rounded, with five slender, elevated ribs, hence five-cornered, about 

 two inches long, of an ash-grey colour, marked with numerous small, 

 scarcely elevated papillae, like the surface of an orange, suirounded at 

 the base by the withered vestiges of the calyx and disc, ending rather 

 abruptly in a sub-conical, five-cornered, blunt apex, which is about 



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