2-sexual. Perianth urceolate, 5-lobed, membranous, the female rather depressed, 
glabrous except the lobes, which are ciliolate, inflexed and hood-like, somewhat 
apiculate and traversed along the back by a green blunt keel, when fipe little 
altered save that the keel is occasionally enlarged in the middle into a thick 
transverse wing. Anthers purple. Ovary ovoid; style very short; stigmas 2. 
Fruit depressed, lenticular. Pericarp and testa membranous. Embryo horizontal. 
Tas. 8808.—Fig. 1, part of an inflorescence; 2, a leaf; 3, hermaphrodite 
flower ; 4, pistil of hermaphrodite flower; 5 and 6, female flowers ; 7, pistil of 
female flower ; 8 and 9, fruits ; 10, section of a fruiting calyx ; 11, section of a 
fruit ; 12, seed; 13, section of a seed ; 14, embryo :—all enlarged. 
