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flower bract-like, protecting the flower-bud, often 2, alternate, 

 approximate, shorter than the flower, erect or erect-patent, 

 membranaceous, elliptical to elliptical-oblong, obtuse, entire, 

 conduplicate, carinate dorsally, 1— nerved, 4—5 mm. long. 

 Flower erect, terminal, 8—9 mm. long, longitudinally 3— winged, 

 broadly acute at the base and continued to the pedicel which 

 is the top of the main stem and branches. Perianth superior, 

 erect, straight ; limb small, much shorter than the tube, 6-lobed ; 

 external-lobes 3, small, erect, ovato-deltoid, subrhombic towards 

 the base, obtuse, entire, thick, nearly plane dorsally, thicker and 

 convex towards the centre internally, 1-nerved, about 1^ mm. 

 long, 1| mm. broad, induplicato-valvate in bud ; interior-lobes 

 3, much smaller and minute, erect, depressed-deltoid, entire, 

 thick, about i mm. long ; tube broadly cylindrical, often some- 

 what enlarged below, about 4 mm. long, 2\ mm. across, mem- 

 branaceous, longitudinally 6— nerved ; wings membranaceous, 

 cuneate, entire, obliquely obtuso-truncate at the apex, shorter 

 than the floral body and about 5—6 mm. long, \\— 2 mm. broad. 

 Stamens 3, sessile, inserted in a short distance under the throat, 

 opposite to the interior-lobes of perianth, lower than the 

 stigmas ; anther-cells remote by the horizontal connective, 

 transversely oblong, scarcely 2-lobed, about \ mm. broad, 

 separating the inside into 2 loculaments by a vertical dissepi- 

 ment, longitudinally dehiscing ; connective stout, thick, longer 

 than the anther-cells, with the minutely papillose processes at 

 the base, the superior appendage 2-parted and the inferior one 

 integral. Style erect, springing from the thickened truncate 

 top of the ovary, included, just reaching to the throat of 

 perianth, 4 mm. long, rathar stout, straight, terete, smooth, 

 3— nerved ; arms short, thick, erect-patent, enlarged towards the 

 stigma : stigmas 3, large, dilated, truncate, orbiculate, disci- 

 form, directing outwards, 1 mm. across. Ovary inferior, 

 obovato-globular, 3-ridged, about 3 mm. long, 3-ccllcd, with 

 very numerous ovules ; ovules minute, densely attached to 

 the thick 2-parted prominent axile placentas, obovato- 

 oblong or obovato-fusiform, obtuse at the apex, with a funiculc 

 which is shorter than the ovule, about \ mm. long. Capsule 



