whence they face together round the shaft of the column; 
lower one thick, fleshy, short, obliquely incumbent, re- 
pandly indented: nectary divided transversely by an incom- 
plete circular ledgelike partition. Column scarcely shorter 
than the flower: shaft about 14 inch high, green, marked 
with irregular red spots, pentagonal below, round upwards. 
Filaments separated to the length of the anthers, re- 
curvedly spreading, greenish, ligulate, with an inwardly 
prominent midrib: anthers linearly oblong, greenish yellow. 
Germen oblong, faintly 3-lobed, greenish, opaque, smooth: 
styles greenish, clavate, recurved, at first rather longer 
than the germen: stigmas pulvinately orbicular. According 
to Brotero the fruit is an oblong pale green smooth 3-fur~ 
rowed berry, about 2 inches in length, This appears te- 
haye ripened at Lisbon. 
ee 
o The tube of the calyx. a@ The long rays of the outer crown. 5 The — 
short rays, or rather rudiments of rays. c The inner convergent crown. 
d The upper operculum or ruffle. ¢ The lower operculum or ruffle. f The. 
incomplete partition of the nectary. c 
