very entire : persistent. Petals 5, chocolate-colour, inserted at the base of the staminiferous Cymbal, 
pendulous : Claws dilated into a lyre-shaped cavity, variegated with yellow, bearded externally, and 
covering the anthers: Laminz oval, finely downy especially on the outer surface: deciduous. An- 
thers 15, yellow, inserted by threes under the -interstices of a chocolate coloured and yellow 5-fid 
Cymbal, the divisions of which are obtuse and bearded at the sides. Nectaries 5, yellow, inserted 
at the very bottom of the cymbal under the anthers, and I think in the receptacle rather than the 
‘Cymbal itself, transversely oblong, very prominent, callous. Pericarpiam before impregnation minute 
and concealed within the cymbal, 5-angular, bearded in 5 rows : afterwards aninch and a half long or 
more, 5-locular with as many valves bordered by a membrane which ends at the top in a somewhat 
falcated wing, splitting from the center of the axis which is composed of long yellowish soft hairs. 
Stigmas 5, narrowly wedge-shaped, converging below the middle into a short ventricose tube. Seeds 
black, obovate, their arillus yellowish brown, 
| Ranker maha me mac sera Syhacesee AT ANC 
REFERENCES TO THE PLATE. . 
1. The Young Fruit magnified. 2. A single Petal detached, natural size. 3. A single Anther 
magnified. 4. The staminiferous Cymbal and Anthers magnified. 5. One valve of the ripe 
Fruit. 6. A Seed. 
