>Yi'llUl"M. 



ilj 



when yomig, densely and 



completely covered with long 



stiff tawny fcomentun bearing 



a 



number of lanceolate- subulate bracts irregularly distributed along their sides, hut < pociullv 



towards the apex and at the umbilicus ; basal bracts none : wh n ripe yellow, 5 in. (to ?;"> in. ?) 

 across; pedicels, when present, thick, densely tomcntose, about '1 or 2 in. long. 



Male Unv ers 



stipitate or sub-sessile, monandrous; the perianth of 5 lanceolate hairy pi res 



stipitate; the perianth like that of the males; achene snb-globos< shinin 





Gall flowerl 



stvle lat ral 



stigma bifid. Fertile female flowers unknown ; receptacle with hispid hairs, which surround 



the flowers. 



Moluccas and Celebes, — Teysmann. 



The 



ptacles in the majority of the specimens which I have s< n are onlv about half 



inch across ; but in the Leiden Herbarium there is a detached 



this species (and apparently rightly), which is more than three-quarters of an inch 



ptaele, said to belong to 



Plate 120 



broad-leaved form — of natural I 

 flower : 4, gall flower : enlarged 



A, fruiting-branch of b\ Riedelii, Teysm., narrow-leaved form ; H, leaf of 



receptacles: 3, stipitate male 



1 & 2, vertical sections of 







