ovules two, inserted one above the other on the inside 
of the face of the ovary, fungilliform (that is, with their 
upper part much dilated and in the shape of a hat, 
wrapping over the lower half, which is cylindrical and 
directed towards the back of the ovary): Ailum on the 
lowest edge of the hat. Styles as many as ovaries, simple, 
disengaged, filiform, hairy at the base, terminal: stigma 
terminal, simple. Fruit (received from Mr. John Fraser) 
obovate, elongated, formed of the hardened, persistent 
perianth with 5 or 6 ribs, simple at the base, variously 
divided upwards. Achenia somewhat _ hairy, inserted 
obliquely on the inside of the perianth, sessile, indefinite, 
oval, brown, polished, face straight, back gibbous, down 
each of the last obscurely margined, margin of the face more 
prominent than the other; pericarp corneous, not fragile. 
Seed shaped like the cavity of the pericarp, ascending, with 
the hilum nearly opposite the scar of the achenium; skin 
double, the outer pale brown, tough, the inner extremely 
delicate, white; between these two, from the hilum to the 
chalaza, which is flattened, runs a series of vessels (the 
raphe) possessing considerable tenacity, and extended even 
beyond the chalaza down between the approximated edges 
of the cotyledons. Embryo homotropous, orthotropous, 
without albumen; cotyledons white, fleshy, 5 times conyo- 
lute, their back opposite the placenta: radicle inserted by a 
broad short unguis within the bases of the cotyledons, 
obconical, exorhizous, obtuse at the tip, truncate at the 
base; gemmule scarcely visible, in the depressed centre of 
the base of the radicle. Lindley MSS. 
