round, half as long as the leaves. Stipules large, ovate, 
acute, entire. Peduncles axillary, twice as long as the pe- 
tioles. Cyme twice or oftener forked ; branches divaricated. 
Male flowers in the forks of the cyme, four-petalous, the 
outer petals rounded, with a sinuosity on one side where the 
pedicel is attached, hollow in the centre, with flattened, 
slightly revolute edges, forming a perfect miniature of a 
barber’s basin; inner petals obovato-cuneate, undulate. 
Stamens united only at their insertion. Female flowers 6- 
petalous, the petals ovato-lanceolate. Germen rather une- 
qually winged, the wings unequally rounded. Graham. 
mittens 
