Bracteas resembling the stipules.. Perianth pale rose-colour. 
Male flower large ; sepals four, two large and broad, two (oppo- 
site ones) oblong and narrow, all spreading and subtomentose at 
the back. Female flowers smaller than the male, of five, spread- 
ing, equal, obovate sepals. Fruit villous, at length glabrous, 
with two short and one very long, oblong, deflexed, striated 
wings. 
Fig. 1. Stamen, magnified. 2. Female flower, nat. size. 3. Fruit, ditto. 4. 
_ Transverse section of the capsule, ditto. 
