Part 41

CLASS XXIII. ORDER I.

POLYGAMIA MONOECIA. Various dispositions. Upon one Plant.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Hermaphroditi feminei flores.

CALYX. Spatha partialis ovato-oblonga, plano-concava, magna.

COROLLA inæqualis, ringens; petalo constituente labium superins, nectario vero labium inferius.

Petalum erectum, ligulatum, quinquedentatum, basi antice connivens.

Nectarium monophyllum, naviculare, petalo, brevius, intra sinum petali insertum.

STAMINA. Filamenta sex, subulata erecta, petalo dimidio breviora. Antheræ abortivæ.

PISTILLUM. Germen infra receptaculum floris, maximum, longissimum. Stylus erectus, longitudine petali. Stigma capitatum, subrotundum.

PERICARPIUM. Bacca carnosa, corio tecta, longissima, pulpa trifariam, absque dissepimentis.

SEMINA plurima, globosa.

Hermaphroditi masculi flores.

CALYX ut in feminæo.

COROLLA ut in feminæo.

STAMINA. Filamenta ut in feminæo, at longiora, tenuiora. Antheræ lineares, sulcatæ, erectæ, magnæ.

PISTILLUM. Germen ut in feminæo, ut minus. Stylus, et stigma ut in fæmineo, at minora.

PERICARPIUM abortit.

Hermaphrodite flowers, where the female parts are perfect.

EMPALEMENT. Partial sheath oblong, egg-shaped, smoothly-concave, and large.

BLOSSOM unequal and gaping; the petal forming the upper lip, the honey-cup the under.

Petal upright, ligulate, five-toothed, and meeting at the base in front.

Honey-cup one leaf, ship-shaped, shorter than the petal, and inclosed within it.

CHIVES. Threads six, awl-shaped, upright, shorter by half than the petal. Tips abortive.

POINTAL. Seed-bud below the receptacle of the flower, large and very long. Shaft upright the length of the petal. Summit headed, nearly round.

SEED-VESSEL. A fleshy berry, covered with a tough skin, very long, the pulp laying three ways, without partitions.

SEEDS many, round.

Hermaphrodite flowers, where the male parts are perfect.