slender, terete, very tall, bearing a profusely-branched cyme, with 
deep-red branches and pedicels. /owers very numerous and 
rather small, pale-green or whitish: males smaller, with two, 
broadly ovate, blunt sepals, and six to eight stamens; females 
with four, oblong sepals, and capitate stigmas. Large wing of 
JSruit triangular, blunt. . 
Fig. 1. Male; and 2. Female flowers :—doth magnified. 
