of pure white flowers; branchlets and pedicels glandular- 

 pilose, slender ; bracts oblong, obtuse, green, ciliate. — Male 

 iiowers one inch broad across the two outer perianth leaves, 

 which are oblong, obtuse, glandular at the back; inner pair 

 much smaller and narrower. Stamens numerous, collected 

 into a small globose capitulum ; filaments free ; anthers ob- 

 long. — Female flowers bibracteolate. Perianth-leaves five, 

 ovate, subacute, nearly equal. Styles three, persistent in 

 fruit, bifid, with short stigmatic arms, surrounded with a 

 papillose band ; ovary three-celled, three- winged, glandular- 

 pilose; two wings narrow, the third prolonged almost hori- 

 zontally, longer than broad, subacute; placentas bifid, the 

 lobes o villiferous on both surfaces. Capsule glandular, three- 

 winged ; wings membranous, veined, two smaller about as 

 long as the capsule is broad ; the third two to three times 

 as long as the capsule is broad ; upper margin straight, lower 

 curved. — J. I). II. 



Fig. 1. Ovary. 2. The same transversely cut, — magnified. 



