-their natural position on the entire plant. 
the short tube of the corolla. Anthers linear, upright, 
united like those in the flowers of the Composite or Syn-— 
genesious plants. Germen obovate, hairy, 3-celled, with 
many ovules in each cell affixed to the axis. Style 
longer than the stamens. Stigma widened, slightly 3-lobed. 
Capsule berried oval, about as big as a large pea, soft, and 
covered with soft hairs, indehiscent, 3-celled with several 
seeds in each cell, attached to the axis in 2 or 3 rows: 
seeds round, the size of a small grain of Black Pepper, — 
wrinkled arid black: integument double, outer one hard 
thick red and brittle; znner a brown membranous crust : 
albumen the shape of the seed, cartilaginous, pale blue: 
embryo cylindric, straight, centripetal, shooting from the 
umbilicus half way and more through the albumen. Rozb. 
MSS. » . 
The spike represented in the plate with expanded flowers 
is of the natural size: the figure of the entire plant, with 
the foliage, is diminished in the proportion by which the se- 
parate spike differs from the small ones, that are shown in 
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