clusters situated in the uppermost leaf-axils. Jnvolucre 
shortly peduncled, 4-valved ; the valves glandular-apicu- 
late on the back, when ripe linear-oblong, about + in. 
long, the appendices more or less recurved, squarrose, 
ultimately deciduous. Receptacle 3-gonous or (the central) 
2-gonous, the angles winged. Perianth 6—4-lobed, the 
lobes between the angles smaller than the others. Ovary 
with 3 or 2 short divergent stigmas. /ruit 3—-2-winged, 
+++ in. long, wings very narrow.. 
Fig. 1, end of a twig, with male flowers; 2, twig with a male flower, also 
with fruit; 3, a male flower; 4 and.5, anthers; 6, a lateral female flower; 7, a 
central female flower :—all enlarged. 
