or hastate-cordate, acute obtuse or acuminate, pale green, 
margins scaberulous. Panicles axillary and _ terminal, 
effuse, branches slender, angular; flowers in small fascicles, 
rose-colrd., nearly half an inch broad; bracts minute ; 
pedicels slender, one-eighth to one-fourth of an inch long, 
trigonous above, jointed above the base. Sepals hyaline ; 
three outer ovate, spreading, dorsally winged, wing de- 
current on the angles of the pedicel; three inner more 
obovate, suberect, not winged. Stamens 8; filaments 
about as long as the sepals, hairy towards the base. 
Ovary small, triquetrous ; style 0; stigma large, capitate, 
3-lobed. Fruiting calyx broadly 3-winged, wings rather 
waved. <Achene triquetrous, black, shining.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Portion of panicle with bracts and flowers; 2, stamens; 3, ovary :— 
All enlarged. 
