or less tinged with red, the margin waved and subsinuate, 

 the whole upper and under surface and thickened 

 petioles covered with a short and compact, hoary pu- 

 bescence, or woolly substance. Peduncle very long, axil- 

 lary, tinged with red, downy, bearing a somewhat close 

 many-flowered panicle of large, handsome, white flowers. 

 Male blossoms with four petals; two opposite ones large 

 and almost orbicular, the two others small and oblong, all 

 of them spreading. Female flowers of two rather large, 

 spreading, obovate, white petals. Germen obovate, tri- 

 quetrous, pale green, the angles furnished each with a 

 broad white wing, all of about the same size. Stamens 

 and style and stigmas as in the Genus. 



Fig. 1, Section of an immature Fruit : — magnified. 



