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permanently cover the apex of the branches. I therefore believe that the 
flowers were either cleistogamous or expanded under, and were concealed 
by the dome of stipules ; at any rate they must have been very small. 
The development of the fruit is rather rapid, and as it matures a short stalk 
is developed, so that when ripe it is exserted just beyond the apical dome. 
The capsule is globose, less than £ inch in diameter, thin, dry, whitish- 
brown in colour, and irregularly breaks up into valves, allowing the very 
small whitish-brown seeds to escape. These are globose and thickly 
covered with rather long and very fine hairs. I have not yet succeeded in 
raising seedlings/ 
