Stamens included ; filaments compressed ; anthers linear, 

 versatile. Ovary 5-6 mm. long ; ellipsoid, bluntly 3-angled ; 

 style slender, as long as the perianth ; stigma trifid, sometimes 

 bifid. Fruit a bright red berry, globose, 1*5 cm. in diameter. 

 Seeds 1 or few, subglobose. 



Plate 13. — Fig. 1, section of peduncle ; Fig. 2, bract ; Fig. 3, transverse 

 section of ovary ; Fig. 4, style and stigmas ; Fig. 5, fruit. 



F.P.S.A., 1921. 



