numerous, rather small, orange-red, moncecious flowers: the 
females few, in the axils of the main bracteas of the peduncles. 
Calye cup-shaped, five-lobed, the lobes erect, very obtuse. 
Corolla deeply five- or six-partite, the segments ovate, spreading. 
Stamens six to eight, yellow: the filaments combined at the 
base, and having five glands there, united into a ring. Ovary 
ovate, with similar glands ; sty/e short, much divided into several 
green stigmas. 
Fig. 1. Male flower. 2. Female ditto. 3. Transverse section of an ovary :— 
magnified, 
i ee * gee Ss 
OE ST ee all ase 
