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anther, scarcelj^ incurved ; anther introrse, dorsifixed, cordate- 

 ovate, acutish or obtuse at the apex ; cells oblong. Rudimentary^ 

 ovary small, sessile ; globose, glabrous, equal to the calyx in 

 height ; stigma sessile, short, beak-like, and pyramidal in form, 

 ver\^ minuteh^ papillose. Female flower.- Raceme extremelj' 

 short, and subfasciculately pedicelled, axillary, much shorter 

 than the leaves, but longer than the petiole, 2-12-flo\vered ; 

 rachis l-4mm, long, straight, puberulant, viridescent ; bracts 

 ver^^ minute, deltoid or depressed-deltoid, entire or bi-tri-lobed, 

 dark-purple above, puberulent, ciliated. Flowers small, white, 

 4-5mm. across, pedicellate ; pedicel erect and erect-patent, 

 stout, straight or slightly arcuate, terete, viridescent, very 

 minutely puberulent, with pale erect-patent and patulous hairs, 

 3|- 4Jmm. long, with adpressed-deltoid orsubulato-deltoid dark- 

 purple opposite or subopposite minute bracteoles below. Calj-x 

 very short, minutely puberulent externall3^, minutely ciliolated, 

 about fmm. long, very shortly 4-lobed, viridescent, persistent; 

 tube very shortly campanulated, scarcely contracted under the 

 lobes ; lobes depressed, lunato-oblong transveselv. Corolla pa- 

 tent, 4-parted, glabrous, deciduous ; tube about -J as short as 

 the lobes, depressed-infundubuliform, 2-2|mm. long; lobes ovato- 

 elliptical, acutish or obtuse, entire, IJ-lJmm. broad. Rudimen- 

 tary^ stamens 4, alternate and inserted on the sinuses of the corol- 

 la, spreading, shorter than the corolla-lobes, about l-^mm. long ; 

 filament subulato-linear ; anther ovate, obtuse at the apex, 

 shortly bifid at the base, about fmm. long. Ovary erect, ses- 

 sile, glabrous, ellipsoid, Ifmm. long including the stigma, 

 about IJmm. across, green below and lutescent above, 4— celled, 

 1-ovuled in each cell ; ovule oblong-linear, descending ; stigma 

 sessile, depressed, shortly 4-lobate towards the margin ; 

 lutescent. Fruit on 1 or 2-3-fasclculate pedicels, axillary, 

 small, depressed-globose, smooth, red, with persistent calj^x at 

 the base and sessile 4-sublobed depressed dark stigma at the top, 

 about 2J— 4mm. across ; pedical straight, slightly longer than 

 the fruit, about 4-6mm. long ; pyrense fusiform-ellipsoid, smooth, 

 longitudinally veined, pale-stramineous, about 2mm. long; 

 pulp soft, flavescent. 



