often 10-12; filaments very slender, much exceeding the perianth; anthers 
subglobose, very small. Rudimentary ovary pilose. Female flowers solitary, 
in the axils of acute bracts. Perianth 6-lobed, the lobes rounded. Stamens 6, 
their anthers sterile. Styles 3, rarely more, elongated, terete, slightly recurved, 
hirsute at the base. Fruits solitary, or 2-8 together. Peduncle stout, tomen- 
tose, up to 1 in. long. Cwpule shortly goblet-shaped, 2-2 in. wide, within 
densely red velvety, clothed outside with long linear spreading or recurved silky 
scales. Acorn subovoid or subglobose, tip acute or rounded, base broad, 3-1} 
in. long, $-1 in. across, densely yellow tomentose, at length glabrous; shell 
woody, thick. 
Tas. 8695.—Fig. 1, male flowers; 2, female flowers; 3, section of a female 
flower, showing the sterile stamens; 4, young fruit; 5, mature fruit :—all 
enlarged except 4 and 5, which are of natural size. : 
