YELLOW FLOWERED BALSAM TREE. H3 
with many transverse ascending veins which are scarcely 
perceptible at the surface, all inosculating together near 
the border. The flowers are shortly pedunculate, axillary 
and terminal, solitary or by 3’s on the same peduncle. 
The calyx is almost quadrangular, composed of 16 sepals, 
disposed in 4 ranks ; they are somewhat rounded and con- 
cave, the inner series gradually becoming larger. The 
corolla is pale yellow, of 4 oval petals somewhat un- 
guiculated, very thick, two of them larger than the others. 
Stamens very numerous, on short thick filaments, nearly 
in 4 rows round the germ, with the anthers distinctly 2- 
lobed. The germ is very small, with a thick 12 rayed, 
almost capitate stigma, with 4 lateral appendages. The 
capsule with 12 cells and 12 thick valves containing nume- 
rous oblong seeds, enveloped in a soft pulp and attached to 
a large oblong 12 furrowed placenta or receptacle. The 
fruit is about the size of a fig with something of its form, 
and hence it is known to the Negroes by the name of the 
Wild Fig. (Macfadyen.) 
Plate LXXVIL 
A small branch with the leaves reduced to about one-half their natural 
size. 
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