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erect-patent, angustato-subcompressed, stout-capillaceous, sim- 

 ple, but the lower ones usually with a few loose branchlets ; 

 branchlets stout-capillaceous, sometimes again few-ramulose ; 

 bracts minute, widely dilated with truncated front margins 

 or lato-ovate, vaginiform, produced above into a linear lobe 

 with an obtuse point, 1-nerved, about l^-4mm. long ; brac- 

 teoles very minute, broad, membranaceous, cuspidate, shorter 

 than the bracts, sometimes connate. Flowers dimorphic 

 (long-staminal flowers and short-staminal flowers in dif- 

 ferent stocks), numerous, small, more or less cernuous, 

 pedicellate. (a) Long-staminal (probably staminate) flowers 

 dense ; pedicels 1-3-fasciculate on branches and branchlets (the 

 basal portions of which are free from them), erect-patent, 

 usually short, articulated near the flower or sometimes above 

 the middle, 2-3mm. or sometimes lOmm. long. Perianth 

 campanulato-connivent, 4^-5mm. long, longer or sometimes 

 shorter than the pedicels ; segments 6! (sepals 3 and petals 3), 

 shortl}^ connate at the very base, 1-nerved, membranaceous, 

 entire, glabrous, concave, subcarinate, reddish- or brownish- 

 purple in the back, marcescent. Sepals 3, slightly shorter 

 than the petals, lanceolato-oblong or ovato-oblong. Petals 

 3, narrowly oblong or elliptical-oblong. Stamens 6, exserted, 

 shorter than twice of perianth and adnate to the base of 

 it ; filament angustate, complanate, subulate at the apex, 

 glabrous ; anther ovato-oblong, bifid with obtuse lobes at 

 the base, obtuse or subretuse at the apex, dorsifixed, sub- 

 versatile, introrse, not foveolate, longitudinally dehiscing ; 

 cells narrow; pollen yellow. Ovary sessile, glabrous, 3- 

 sulcate, glabrous, about l^mm. long ; style elongate, erect, 

 much exserted, longer than the stamens, terete ; stigma simple, 

 somewhat thickish. (6) Short-staminal (probably pistillate) 

 flowers laxly disposed ; pedicels 1—4— fasciculate on branches 

 and branchlets, articulated above, 2|-3|mm. long, but often 

 attaining about 5mm. long in fruit. Perianth wide-campanu- 

 late, connivent, 3mm. long; segments 6! (sepals 3 and petals 3), 

 connate at the very base, reddish-purple and subcarinate on 

 the back, concave, entire, obtuse, glabrous, membranaceous, 1— 



