glabrous, the margins obscurely cUiatcd, often tinged with red. 
Stipules oblong, obtuse, coloured. Flowers on dichotomously 
branched, pendent panicles, dioecious, rarely monoecious: all of a 
rich deep scarlet colom. Pedicels bracteated; bracteas lanceo¬ 
late, acuminate, opposite. Male Jlowers : Sepals four, almost 
closed over the stamens; two ovate, large and boat-shaped, thick 
and fleshy, opposite and external; the other two smaller, oblong 
or a^roaching to obovate, slightly concave, of a thinner, almost 
membranaceous texture: column of stamens forming an ovate 
mass. Female flowers'. Sepals five, rarely spreading, oval, nearly 
^ual, concave. Stigmas six, erecto-patent, subulate, waved. 
Ovary of young fruit white, broadly obovate, triangular, the 
angles ™ged; two wings veiy short and one long, divergent; 
all red, and decurrent, so as to form a triangular pedicel. 
Fig. 1. Male flower, with one (inner) sepal removed 2. Female 
flowers; natural nze. 3. Pistil (or young fhiit):— dighiltf magnified. 
