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minutely striated. Leaves, when young, green and shining above, with 
comparatively few. lymphatic hairs, and a short glandular pubescence 
which soon falls off ; under surface paler, densely villous on the nerves, 
and glandular-pubescent on the introvenium. Old leaves with scabrous 
more scattered hairs, the upper surface dull green, the lower pale. 
Leaf and cirrhus (3-4-, more rarely 5-cleft) side by side, and in the 
joint axil a leaf-branch or leaf-bud, a solitary male or female flower, 
and a rounded dract with induplicate margin. Petioles hairy and 
finally scabrous, furrowed ; fistulose, the cavity circular in section. 
Blade of leaf cordate-ovate in general outline, 5-nerved, and cut one- 
half or one-third part down to the midrib into five, rounded /obes, 
which are themselves wavily lobulated, the margin marked by little 
white callous terminations of the nerves, between which the paren: 
chyma is puckered and crimped. 
MALE :—Flowers on a peduncle about half the length of the petiole. 
Calyx villous, the tube spread out nearly flat, crowned abruptly by the 
short teeth separated by a broad straight sinus. Corolla flat, villous 
outside, smooth and of a sulphur-yellow within; petals 5-nerved, the 
central nerve running off externally and below the apex into a soft 
point. Stamens of the. genus; viz., triadelphous, filaments distinct, 
and loculus following the windings of the elevated line or ridge of 
the connective. Disc filling up the base of the calyx between the 
stamens. FEMALE :—#ower on a thick peduncle, lengthening and 
curving downwards in fruit. Calyx quite flat and dish-shaped. Corolla 
as in the male. Barren filaments sometimes anther-bearing. Dise 
collar-shaped, round the style. Ovary subglobose, with long white 
soft hairs. Style very short, undivided, or more rarely shortly three- 
cleft towards the apex. Stigmata thick, approximated into a round ——— 
head. Fruit at first apple-shaped and hispid, finally quite smooth, - 
light apple-green in colour, and much depressed at base and vertex. 
Seeds black, marked on both sides by an elevated ridge following the — 
outline of the seed, with the margin external to this, narrow, nearly as - 
thick as the body of the seed. 
Ogs. 1.—Sometimes the leaves are opposite, forming a verticil when 
taken with the two cirrhi. It is not uncommon to find flowers with 
six teeth to the calyx, six divisions of the corolla, and the odd stamen 
which usually has but half an anther with loculi on both sides, as in 
the two others. This tendency to revert to the ternary division of the — 
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