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Broughtonia
Female
Cal. cup 3 leaves, egg-spear shaped, membranaceous at the edge, permanent.
Bloss. Petals 3, a little larger than the cup, placed alternately in the divisions.
Pist. Germen superior, roundish. Styles 3, shorter than the blossom, thick, expanding.
Summits blunt.
S. Vess. Capsule rounded, distended, with 6 cells valves, 3 cells.
Seeds oblong-kidney shaped, 2 in each cell.
The blossom is properly the calyx, which forms it of 6 leaves, 3 outer, 3 inner, permament; the latter a little broader, but membranaceous at the edge. The styles are permanent. The plant is monoicous. What I considered in any former description are not female parts. In one specimen I found the calyx with 4 leaves, but the blossom 3 petals. Leaves solitary, in pairs, or threes, but it appears as if they had always growed in threes, only the others had fallen of, rather strap-shaped than of an oblong oval. Female flowers on short footstalks.
September 1802