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occasionally quite undivided, sometimes obscurely five-lobed, soft 
and thick, sparsely tomentose above, densely so and somewhat 
fulvous beneath. owers polygamo-monoicous, nearly sessile in 
the axils of the leaves, jointed on the short petiole. Calyz red, 
between campanulate and infundibuliform, more than an inch 
long, palish-red; the /im4 cut into five, spreading, ovate, acumi- 
nate segments, each having three nerves or strize; within, near 
the base, is a circle of close-placed, incurved, small, concave 
scales. Male flower: column nearly as long as the tube of the 
calyx, fusiform, downy in the middle, crowned with a dense, ° 
globose capitulum, of fifteen, sessile, yellow, two-celled, bright- 
yellow anthers. In the hermaphrodite flower a much shorter 
column bears a circle or ring of anthers, and this is crowned 
with the five, close-placed, very downy, ovate ovaries, tapering 
into styles, which are adnate just beneath the free, recurved, ra- 
diating stigmas. Ovules several in each ovary. 
Fig. 1. Male flower, from which the greater portion of the calyx has been re- 
moved. 2. Hermaphrodite flower, ditto. 3. Summit of ditto, with the,circle 
rr ata and the five ovaries cut through transversely. 4. Anthers :—mag- 
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