for the faintly reddish margins, quite glabrous above, 
softly hirsute beneath, nerves 6-8 radiating from the 
petiole which joins the lamina about 3-3 in. from the base. 
Peduneles few-flowered, 3-14 in. long, sparingly hairy. 
Flowers umbelled, yellow; each umbel of 2 stalked males 
and a single subsessile female; the males on glabrous 
pedicels 2 in. long, with 2 rounded-elliptic sepals 2 in. long, 
the upper flushed outside with red and with a bright red 
blotch within, the lower yellow on both sides; petals 0; 
stamens 12-13, their filaments connate below in a column: 
the female sepals like those of the male flowers, but almost 
orbicular ; petals 0 ; styles 4, shortly connate below ; stigmas 
reniform with an unbroken series of papillae, 3 lin. wide; 
ovary in flower reddish, + in. long, }-} in. wide including 
the wings, slightly narrowed towards the base. 
Fig. 1, stamen; 2, pistil; 3, stigma; 4, cross-section of young fruit :—ail 
enlarged. 
