others in being sessile, and its cirrhus never Ijearing an um at 
its extremity. The pedicels are one-flowered. Male Flowers : 
Calyx deeply four-parted, tomentose on the outer surface, smooth, 
red, and punctate on the inner; segments oblong, obtuse, reflexed. 
Corolla none. The staminous column is central, thick, erect, red. 
Anthers numerous, yellow, contorted into a round terminal head. 
Female Jlowers : Calyx as in the male. Ovary superior, oblong, 
four-sided, erect. Style none. Stigma sessile, j^eltate, four-lobed. 
Capsule oblong, somewhat curbed, four-angled, deeply furrowed 
at the sides, four-celled, four-valved; the valves septiferous in 
the middle, many-seeded. Seeds oblong, linear, membranaceous, 
and acute at both ends; arranged longitudinally, and affixed by 
the base to the partitions.— Wm. Jack. 
Fig. 1. Male flower. 2. fruit ;—natural tize. 
