Panicles with opposite, thick dranches, 8—10-flowered. Flowers 
all male in our plant, an inch broad, cream-white. Bracteas 
very deciduous. Calyx of four, orbicular, green sepals. Petals 
four, obovate, concave. <Anthers red. 
Fig. 1. Section of a flower from which the petals are removed. 2. Section of 
a flower with the petals. 3 and 4. Stamens :—all more or lezs magnified. 
