in two series, the outer subherbaceous, short, broadly 

 ovate, obtuse, reflexed ; inner membranous, linear-oblong, 

 obtuse, waved or twisted. Stamens very many, inserted 

 on the disk in many series, filaments two-glandular below 

 the middle, hairy below the glands which are stipitate ; 

 anthers small two-celled, cells dehiscing longitudinally. 

 Pistillode 0. Fem. FL. much smaller than the male ; peri- 

 anth dehiscing circumscissly at the base ; lobes small, 

 often unequal. Staminodes few, small. Carpels several, 

 sessile in the base of the perianth, ovoid, tomentose,narrowed 

 into an acute stigma ; ovule solitary, pendulous, anatropous. 

 Drupes one to five, small, stipitate. Seed pendulous, 

 albumen copious ; cotyledons broad, divaricate. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Front, and 2, back view of male flower ; 3 and I, stamen ; 5, portion of 

 fem. cyme from Herbarium specimens; 6, flower ; 7, carpels; and 8, drupes, all 

 from the same : — all but Jig. 5 enlarged. 



