f 5 2r 3 
per calyx, or flower cup, in its younger flate» 
but as it grows up and expands, they begin 
to appear more diflant from each other, and 
foon decay ; otherwife they might be fuppofed 
to have the appearance of an exterior flower 
cup. 
Corolla. The flower confifts of five large, 
flefhy, concave, inverted- oval petals, united 
at the narrow part of the bafe, forming as it 
were one petal in the infide of this narrow 
part, or joining, is a funnel-fhaped flefhy fub- 
itance, like a nedtarium ; which is united to, 
and appears to be, a part of the petal ; this fur- 
rounds the germen, or embryo feed- veflel. The 
upper part of this flefhy funnel-fhaped tube 
is waved in fuch a manner, that the rifing 
of each wave anfwers to the middle of each 
petal. 
Stamina (or male organs). The filaments of 
thefe are numerous, and linear fhaped, they are 
inferted all round on the top or margin of 
this waved part of the funnel-fhaped tube 
(not feparated bv diftindt parcels, or united 
only in different bundles, as in the clafs of 
Polyadelphia) but equally diflindt from each 
other, and connected together at the bottom 
by this flefhy tube. The antherse, or fum- 
mits, that contain the male-dufl, are of an 
oval form and erect ; they have a cell on each 
fide full of farina, of a globular fhape, when 
viewed by the microfcope, different from the 
malvacCous tribe, which are full of points, and 
a common objedt in microfcopes. 
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