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inserted on the edge of the disk ; anther fulvous, lato-ovate, 

 obtuse, with a broad connective and short subulate incurved 

 filament. Disk thick, conspicuous, inclosed, lining the calj-x- 

 tube with a free edge, cupule-form, longer than the calyx- 

 segments, deep-green, secreting a honey juice, sinuate in the 

 edge. Pistil 1, superior, erect, slightly exserted upon the 

 throat, glabrous, deep-green, small, about 2mm. long ; ovary 

 ovoid, continued to the style above, thick-walled, free but the 

 very base hardly adhering to the base of the disk, about 

 l|mm. across, antero-posteriorly 2-locular with a thin dissepi- 

 ment ; style erect, short, stout, terete, obscurely 10-ridged 

 longitudinally from the upper portion of the ovary ; stigma 

 4-divided, with oblong-ovate white erect-patent lobes ; ovules 2 

 in each loculament, erect, collateral, with the raphe adnate to 

 the axis, ovato-ellipsoid, smooth, anatropous ; those of the 

 male flowers rudimentary, included, minute, lower than the 

 stamens, erect, deep-green, lj-2mm. long ; ovary free but the 

 very base only adhering to the base of the disk, lato-ovoid, 

 attenuated towards the style, 2-locular, 2-ovuled in each 

 loculament ; style nearly as long as the ovary, erect, stout, 

 obscurely 10-ridged longitudinally from the upper portion of 

 the ovary ; stigma minutely 4-lobed. Fruit capsular, ellipsoid, 

 oblong, or oval, obtuse, erect, very shortly beaked with a per- 

 sistent erect style at the top, green, glabrous, smootish, thick, 

 coriaceous, striate, septicidally dehiscent into 2 carpels londitu- 

 dinally, provided with persistent calyx at the base, 1J— 2 J cm. 

 long, 9-13 mm. across, one-locular by the combination of the 2 

 loculaments from the disconnection of the narrow dissepiment 

 which are connected to the carpels. Seeds often 1, sometimes 2, 

 very rarely 3, erect, exarillate, shortly but stoutly stipitate by 

 the base of the axis, oval, ellipsoid, or oblong, rounded-obtuse, 

 sometimes scarcely compressed in the solitary one but in the 

 geminate one plano-convex, smooth but more or less often 

 obtusely striate longitudinally, about 10— 15mm. long, 7-llmm. 

 across ; testa thin, fleshj', closely adherent to the albumen, red, 

 marked with numerous puniceous veins running upwards from 

 the bottom ; albumen copious, carnose, white; embryo occupying 



