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ceolate, imbricated, entire segments. Corolla yellowish white, 

 hypocrateriform ; tube longer than limb, slightly ventricose 

 towards the orifice ; limb much twisted, smooth, with convex, 

 oblong segments, undulated at the margin ; orifice fleshy, 

 contracted. Stamens included, with hairy filaments, which 

 are adnate to the corolla. Anthers not sagittate, oblong, acute, 

 with linear cells, and a rigid, fleshy connectivum. Pollen white. 

 Ovarium roundish, two-lobed, acuminate, not seated in a 

 discus, two-celled, with its ovules all buried in the substance 

 of a fleshy placenta. Style bulbous at base, filiform. Stigma 

 capitate, with a two-lobed apex seated on a fleshy base. 



A valuable stove-plant flowering in September, and propa- 

 gated by cuttings ; it grows freely in a compost of loam, peat, 

 and sand, mixed in equal quantities, 



XI. Sarcocephalus esculentus. Afxtlius. 

 Plants raised from seeds, collected in Sierra Leone by Mr. 

 George Don, in 1822, and then sent home by him, having 

 flowered, I am enabled to complete the account given of this 

 species in Vol. v. of the Transactions, page 442, by Mr. Sabine. 

 The flowers which were produced in the stove in July, ap- 

 peared in terminal heads about twice the size of a musket 

 ball, and were of a pale straw-colour, not pink, as repre- 

 sented in the figure published in the Transactions, and highly 

 fragrant. The calyxes were all united together into a solid 

 fleshy body, having their limbus only distinct ; the latter is 

 short, five or six-toothed, erect, and fleshy. The corolla was 

 funnel-shaped, fleshy, five or- six-lobed, with erect, oblong, 

 imbricated lobes. The stamens were equal in number to the 

 segments of the corolla, and alternate with them, inserted 



