rated, with a minute bristle in the base of each fissure. 
Corymbs axillary, on peduncles which are longer than the 
petioles, forked, bearing a male flower in the cleft, and one 
male and one female upon each division. Bractee subro- 
tund, greenish-white. Flowers white ; male flowers of two 
subequal entire and kidney-shaped petals, very rarely with 
a small one between these; stamens numerous, attached 
only at the base, filaments slender, connective obovato- 
elliptical, anthers small, lateral: female flowers of five obo- 
vate, unequal petals ; styles short and stout, expanded 
at the apex, and contorted; stigmas marginal upon the 
extremity ; germen with three unequal, irregular, large, 
crenate wings. Graham. 
Fig. 1. Female Flower :—magnified. 
