Pericarpium. Folliculi duo, magni, oblongi, acuminati, ventricosi, uniloculares, univalves.
Semina numerosa, imbricata, pappo coronata. Receptaculum membranaceum, liberum.
Empalement. Cup five-cleft, sharp, small, remaining.
Blossom one petal flat or reflexed, five-parted; divisions pointedly egg-shaped, slightly bending with the sun.
Honey-cups five, growing to the tube of the threads below the tips, fleshy or hooded, protruding a sharp horn from the bottom which bends inwards.
Chives. Five threads collected into a tube swelling at the base. Tips oblong, upright, two-celled, terminated by an inflex membrane laying on the summit, having a reversed wing on each side, growing broader downwards. The pollen is collected into ten small bodies inversely lance-shaped, flat, hanging down into the cells of the tips by short threads, often flexible, which are fixed by pairs to five skinny twin tubercules, adhering to the angles of the summit, between the tips.
Pointals. Seed-buds two, oblong, tapered. Shafts two, awl-shaped. Summit common to both, large, thick, five-cornered, covered at top by the ends of the tips, umbilicate in the middle.
Seed-vessel. Two pods, large, oblong, tapered, bellied, one celled, one valved.
Seeds numerous, tiled, crowned with a feather. Receptacle skinny, free.
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