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obsoletum. Bacca oblonga, flavido-viridis, glauco-pruinosa, 
3 lin. longa, 4 lin. diam.* 
The Strigilia australis, Juss., is Pennantia Cunninghami, Nob. 
(Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. ix. 491). 
4. Pamphilia. 
This genus scarcely differs from Strigilia, the principal point 
of distinction being the suppression of one-half of its stamens, 
which are only five in number, and alternate with the petals ; 
they are only two-thirds the length of the petals, and the anthers 
are one-third the length of the filaments : these last are mem- 
branaceous, broad, nearly double the breadth of the adnate 
anther-cells, forming an expanded thin border round the sides 
and apex of the anthers. The anthers are sometimes deficient of 
pollen, in which case they cohere slightly by their margins into 
a tube, from the bottom of the anthers to the base ; but when 
polliniferous, they are distinct and free, a character of frequent 
occurrence in Strigilia : they are glabrous, except along a dorsal 
median nerve, which is stellately pilose. The ovary is depressed 
and turbinate, corresponding in its internal structure with that 
of Strigilia in all respects, except that it has only a single erect 
ovule in each pseudo-cell. The fruit I have not seen, nor does 
it appear to be yet known. The following amended generic 
character is founded upon my own observations ; — 
Pamphilia, Mart. — Flores hermaphroditi aut subpolygami. 
Calyx campanulatus, crasso-coriaceus, extus dense tomen- 
tosus, margine 5-denticulatus. Petala 5, oblonga, crassa, 
tomento stellato dense velutina, apice inflexa, sestivatione val- 
vata, imo adhsesione staminum breviter connata. Stamina 5, 
hypogyna, petalis alterna et paullo breviora; filamenta latissima, 
complanata, membranacea, antheris duplo longiora et latiora, 
glabra, imo plus minusve breviter sese et cum petalis laxe 
adhaerentia, apice obtusa et retusa ; antherce oblongae, dorso 
ad filamenta adnatae, 2-lobae, lobis linearibus parallelis paullo 
segregatis, rima longitudinali antice dehiscentibus, valvis 
membranaceis, glabris ; {stamina sterilia fertilibus omnino si- 
miha, sed infra antheras in tubum cohaerentia, tubo cum petalis 
laxe agglutinate, antherarum locellis vacuis). Pollen ovatum, 
3-sulcatum, reticulatum. Ovarium depresso-tm’binatum, al- 
bido-tomentosum, calyce tertio brevius, supeme 1-loculare, 
imo pseudo-3-loculare, septis cum nervis totidem parietalibus 
* The structure of the seed is fully described in a preceding page 
(p. 161). A drawing of this species, with analytical details, is given in 
plate 30. 
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