hairy above, pale beneath and hairy on the nerves only ; 

 petiole shorter than the blade, stout, hairy ; stipules an 

 inch long, oblong, tip rounded. Cyme a foot broad and 

 more; peduncle long, stout, hairy, green or reddish; 

 branches divaricate, repeatedly divided, glabrous ; bracts 

 at the angles very small, slender, spreading, brown. 

 Flowers umbelled in the ultimate branches of the cyme ; 

 bracteoles setaceous. Male fl. three-fourths of an inch in 

 diameter; sepals orbicular-ovate, concave; petals not half 

 as large, oblong, obtuse ; stamens very many, in a hemi- 

 spheric head; anthers linear-oblong, obtuse, filaments 

 short. Fem.fi.; sepals 5, about one quarter of an inch long, 

 oblong, obtuse, concave ; styles 3, shortly united, bipar- 

 tite ; segments erect, obtuse, straight or slightly twisted, 

 clothed all over with stigmatic hairs. Capsule (young) 

 two-thirds of an inch broad, two wings narrow, the third 

 much longer oblong obtuse, upper margin truncate. — 



Fig. 1, Petal of male fl. ; 2, stamens ; 3, style ; 4, transverse section of 

 ovary : — All enlarged. 



