convex, shining and nearly glabrous, the margin and be- 

 neath pubescent. At the base of the petioles are membran- 

 aceous, fringed stipules, which soon become brown, and 

 give a scaly appearance to the stem. Peduncles axillary, 

 eight to ten inches to a foot high, clothed with spreading 

 hairs, and bearing a compound raceme or panicle at the 

 apex, pale red. Flowers, of both kinds, with two spreading, 

 deep rose-coloured, rounded petals. Stamens and styles, 

 as in the Genus. Fruit oval, triquetrous, with three mode- 

 rately broad, nearly equal wings. 



Fig. 1. Male Flower. 2. Female ditto. 3. Transverse Section of a Cap- 

 sule : — magnified. 



