Journal & Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1915

Ovary inferior or half superior unilocular or with multilarnellate placentas imperfectly plurilocular ; stigma single entire cupshaped or discoid or on numerous styles on the top of the ovary or column ; ovules very numerous on parietal placentas or pendulous from the apices of loculi orthotropous or anatropous. [...] Perianth of minute female flowers 0 the flowers sessile on the receptacle or on the stipes of fleshy cellular bodies (spadicels). [...] Flowers monescious in paniculate spikes or racemes usually the lower branches & the terminal one y sometimes the j lateral or axillary on the wood of the previous year the 9 from the axil of the new year's shoots; d' erect or pendulous 9 pendulous ; both and 9 supported by bracts which in the 9 are persistent and become expanded in fruit. [...] covered with stiff acieu'ar hairs and crowned with the persistent perianth-lobes and style ; cupular bract scarious embracing the base of the nut 4-lobed the 3 outer lobes much enlarged the midlobe obovate or spathulate 3-4 cm. [...] covered with stiff acieular hairs and surmounted by the persistent perianth lobes ; cupular bract much enlarged cleft nearly to the base within and divided on the outside into three various spathulate lobes the mid-lobe 3 -4 cm.