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by its stipitate, tliree-ccUed ovary. Huber describes the i:)etioles o£ 

 this species as glandless, but, as in all other species of the genus that 

 I have examined, glands are almost always present, though sometimes 

 small and obscure. — W. Bottixg Hemsley. 



Fig. 1, base of leaf and stipules, attached to axis ; 2, tip of leaf ; 3, margin of 

 leaf ; 4, base of a male spike ; 5, a male flower ; 6, a female flower witli bract and 

 glands ; 7, a female flower with one segment of the perianth removed ; 8, cross 

 Hcctiou uf an ovary ; 9, young fruit. — The main figure and floM'ors drawn from 

 Hassler's n. 7242 ; the female flowers and young fruit from Twccdic's u. 105. All 

 except 9 enlarged. 



