female. Receptacle shallowly cup-shaped, silky without. 
Perianth segments 8, 2-seriate, equal, oblong-elliptic, 
greenish-yellow, about 1} lin. long. Stamens in male 
and hermaphrodite flowers 4 perfect, with filaments 
shorter than the anthers, each with a pair of thick oblong 
basal glands. Staminodes in male flowers 4, smaller than 
the perfect stamens, but otherwise like these save for the 
much reduced anthers; in hermaphrodite and in female 
flowers 24—28, the outer like reduced perfect stamens, but 
gradually more and more reduced so that those of the 
inmost series are scale-like. Ovaries not even represented by 
rudiments in male flowers; in hermaphrodite and female 
flowers several, hirsute, tipped by long styles hirsute in 
their lower half. wit (ripe receptacle) globose, constricted 
at the top, ultimately splitting irregularly and opening star- 
wise, ash grey, 3-4 lin. long, crowned by the withered 
perianth ; carpels ovoid, 5-6 lin. long, including the per- 
sistent style, densely hirsute with soft spreading hairs, the 
lowest of which are 24 lin. long. 
Fig. 1, part of a cyme, showing a terminal male and a lateral hermaphrodite 
flower with two detached bracts; 2, half of a male flower, laid open; 3, diagram 
of a hermaphrodite flower; 4, hairs from the inflorescence; 5, fertile stamen ; 
6, 7, 8 and 9, staminodes from a hermaphrodite flower; 10, carpels and part of 
the shallow receptacle; 11, section of a carpel; 12, fruits (ripe receptacles) ; 
13, a single ripe carpel :—all enlarged except 12, which is of natural size. 
