centre black-purple, the under side pale-green, margined with 
red, and the centre and veins are red; laciniz acuminated and 
sharply serrated. Petio/e green, about as long as the leaf, 
woolly, subtended at the base by two membranaceous sfipules, 
_ which are rather large, white, tinged with rose. Peduncles ax- 
illary, scarcely longer than the leaves, bearing an wmbe/ of three 
or four large flowers. Male flower the largest, of four, white, 
spreading, oval sepals, two small and glabrous on both sides, 
two outer more than twice as large, concave, clothed externally 
with red tomentum mixed with hairs. Stamens numerous, form- 
ing a dense capitulum. Female flower :—WSepals five, erect, broad, 
oval, concave, uniform, externally tomentose and hairy. Capsule 
very tomentose, three-angled: two angles short and narrow ; one 
large, oval, very obtuse. 
Fig. 1. Female flower. 2. Immature fruit :—magnified. 
