male, large, and female smaller ones. Male flowers of two 
spreading, opposite, plane, obovate, faintly striated, white petals, 
tinged with bluish. Stamens numerous, club-shaped, yellow. 
Female flowers not much more than one-fourth the size of the 
males. Petals two, erecto-patent, suborbicular, very concave. 
Ovary or capsule triangular, with a wing at each angle: two 
short and narrow ; ove much larger, and dilated so as to have a 
subquadrate form. « Style short. Stigma twisted. 
Fig. 1. Female flower :—magnified. 
