leaf, the costa dividing it into two very unequal portions, and the 
lower lobe forming a large appendage or ear to the leaf on one 
side. The margin is also coarsely, almost lobato-, serrate ; the 
colour a dull green, paler beneath, the upper side marked with 
whitish spots, most apparent on the old leaves. Petio/e shorter 
than the leaf, reddish. Peduncles axillary, solitary, about as long 
as the petioles, dichotomously branched, each panicle or cyme 
bearing both male and female flowers. Jale flowers consisting 
of two orbicular or subrhomboid, spreading, yellowish-white 
sepals, tinged with rose, and slightly veined ; stamens fasciculate, 
ten or twelve. Female flowers of five (rarely four) spreading, 
rhombeo-ovate sepa/s, of the same colour as the male. Ovary 
and fruit with three vertical wings, two of them large, rather 
acutely angled, and forming together a nearly equilateral tri- 
angle; the third wing is shorter, rounded (or forming the seg- 
ments of a circle in its outline), and slightly waved. Sfy/e short ; 
stigmas very downy, much and spirally twisted. 
Fig. 1. Fruit nearly mature :—magnified. 
