radiating) ; the papillz flattened and somewhat wrinkled 
at the top, amongst them are a few scattered hairs. Séi- 
pules ovate-oblong, entire, green. Raceme terminal, elon- 
ted ; pedicels one to two inches long, solitary or two or | 
three from the same point, simple or branched. Bracteas 
two or three, bearing little gemme as well as the pedicels 
from their axils. Where the pedicels are solitary, the 
flower is female ; where there are two or three, one is male, 
the remainder, (one or two,) female. All have mostly 
flowers with four white, petaloid, spreading sepals, two 
opposite ones large and oval, the other two much smaller 
and oblong, or sometimes five, and sometimes six, unequal 
sepals. Filaments of the stamens club-shaped, yellow, with 
a cell under the apex at each side. Germen turbinate, 
downy, with three angles ; one of which is expanded into a 
horizontal, horn-like wing. Stigmas yellow, hairy. 
