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Flores axillares, solitarii, cymosi, vel racemosi, inconspicui, 

 viridi-lutescentes. Pedicelli (florum solitariorum) petiolorum 

 longitudine, medium versus articulati, ad artlculos bibracte- 

 olati, et ad basin floris clavato-ampliati. 



Sepala 5, inasqualia, concava, lutescenti-albida, diu per- 

 sistentia. Petala totidem alterna, carnosa, margine subcrispa- 

 ta, concoloria, cum calyce periantbium rotatum exbibentia, 

 decidua. 



Stamina 5, petalis alterna, brevia ; filamenta dilatata, basi 

 mediantibus denticulis latis subinternis in annulum coalita ; 

 antherse conniventes, connectiva reniformi-cordata, loculi 

 angusti, marginales, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Pollen 

 album, 3-porosum, 3~gonum. 



Ovarium semi-inferum depressum, lineis 5-radiantibus pe- 

 talis oppositis vertice insignitum, pluriloculare, loculi quasi in 

 substantia baseos floris immersi, subbiseriati verticaliter, obli- 

 qui, uniovulati. Ovula anatropa, angulo interior! affixa, saepe 

 pendula ; tegumentum unicum. Stylus brevis, canaliformis, 

 apice dilatatus et 5-denticulatus. Stigma discretum, colum- 

 nare, apice discoideum, canalem styli implens, disco exserto. 

 Fructus superus, ima basi calyce vel hujus reliquiis stipa- 

 tus, aurantii parvi magnitudine^ apice profounde umbilicatus ; 

 Caro subsiccus. Pyrense tot quot loculi ovarii, compressse, 

 osseae, superiores erectae, intermediae obliquiusculae, inferiores 

 pendulae. Semina non visa. 



This remarkable plant I am informed was brought from 

 Penang about 1823. It does not appear to perfect its seeds. 



The structure of the pistillum of this plant appears to me 

 very remarkable. At the earliest stage at which it was ob- 

 served, it appeared to me as a cone, occupying the axis, 

 the base being surrounded by the puncta representing the 

 future stamina. 



At a later period I have observed it as a cone, the base 

 surrounded by an annulus, which I consider to be derived 

 from 5 carpel leaves. The subsequent radiating lines (costae) 



