cially underneath: Nerves prominent on the upper surface though not so much as underneath, 
Stipules and Bractes soon falling off. Flowers in long racemes at the bottom of the young 
Calyx pale dull yellow, 3 lines long or more, cyathiform, melliferous at the base: its divisions 
arched and united at the points, hairy, their sides revolute. Torus resembling a pedicle within 
the flowers I examined, whether male or hermaphrodite, generally 10, in twins or their lobes 
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mersed 
ina thick Perispermum: Cotyledons flat, with several parallel nerves : Radicle remote from the 
Hilum at the contrary end of the seed. Frequently only one seed comes to perfection, but the 
species from that single character. 
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; REFERENCES TO THE PLATE. 
1. A Male Flower magnified. - 
2. An Hermaphrodite Flower cut open, magnified. 
3. The Fruit just beginning to change colour, but not full grown, with part of one Lobe cut 
off to shew the seeds. 
4, Aripe Seed, shewing the Caruncle at the Hilum, also cut transversely shewing the Embryo 
in the middle of the Perispermum. 
5. The Embryo. 
6. The pedicelliform Torus and Anthers of a Male Flower, highly magnified. 
7. The same of an Hermaphrodite Flower, with the Pistil. . 
