long, terete, furnished at the base with two, long (two inches in 
length), soft, subulate, erect stipules. Panicles from the extremity 
of the stem or branches and rising above them, then nodding, 
one to three feet long; dranches all with subulate dracts, as well 
as the terminal and sessile, capitate wmbels, which are arranged 
alternately on the ultimate branches. FJowers on short pedi- 
cels, polygamous, tetramerous. Ovary turbinate, woolly : mar- 
gin of the calyx obsolete. Petals four, ovate, concave, acute, 
valvate, woolly on the outside. Stamens four, alternate with 
the petals, incurved; anthers oval, two-celled, rather large. 
Styles two, at first erect and slightly incurved, at length (in 
fruit) divaricated. Stigma small, capitate. The stylopodium is 
depressed and surrounded by an elevated, waved, fleshy ring. 
fruit in the dry state nearly black, scarcely mature, subglo- 
bose, obscurely didymous, laterally, but moderately, compressed, 
smooth, crowned with the fleshy ring just mentioned, and the 
divaricating styles. 
Fig. 1. Tuft of stellated hairs. 2. Flower. 3. Ovary from the same. 4. 
Umbel of scarcely mature fruits (natural size), taken from a dried specimen. 
5. Single fruit from the same :—all but fig. 4 more or less magnified. 
