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filaments ; in other cases 10-18 arranged in pairs and singles 
without fixed orientation ; anthers unequal, reddish-brown, 
apiculate, apex well pointed with long unicellular hairs to 
disseminate the pollen, average length 3 mm. : filaments 
yellowish-white, glabrous, 1*5 mm. long ; pollen yellow, 
even outline, circular, feebly granular contents. 
Pistil rudimentary disc, apiculate, densely pubescent. 
The female flowers occur solitary, or as a cyme in the axil 
of foliage leaves ; when solitary the flower is surrounded 
with an involucre of small bracteoles suggesting 3-7-flowered 
inflorescences ; bracteoles with hairy midrib, acute apex, 
9 mm. long, 5 mm. wide. (See pi. XVI., fig. 2). 
Calyx brown, pubescent, campanulate in flower measuring 
10 mm. in depth ; segments 5, tapering apex, slightly reflexed 
margin, undulating intersegmental groove, pubescent. 
Corolla yellowish-white, 10 mm. diameter, corolla throat 
wide; segments 5, rotate, acute apex, half of under surface 
densely pubescent. 
Staminodes 5, epipetalous, alternate with corolla segments, 
filaments attached near apex of throat ; anthers barren, 
brown, apiculate with silky brown attenuate hairs as in male ; 
filaments white, very short. Pistil with 2 stigmas, yellowish- 
white, style absent ; ovary globose-apiculate covered with 
dense coating of brown hairs, 4-celled, one ovule in each cell. 
Fruit globose-apiculate covered with long brown hairs 
when young, but tending to become glabrous when old, 30 
mm. long, 60 mm. circumference ; fruiting calyx not much 
enlarged. (See pi. XVI., fig. 5). 
Seeds 2 per fruit, oval-elliptical in shape, with strongly 
beaked micropyle ; 18 mm. long, 10 mm. wide, 8 mm. thick ; 
testa brown, transversely striated; endosperm abundant, 
ruminate. (See pi. XVI., fig. 6). 
Seedlings epigeal ; cotyledons drop, but usually only after 
persisting as a white lamina, void of palisade tissue, for one 
or two days. During this time they never develop any 
chlorophyll though the enhanced epicotyledonary leaves 
