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Diœcious, flowers small, 4–5-merous. Sepals in the male flower sub-equal, in the female flower 2 or 3 outer much larger than the inner, accrescent. Corolla minute, several times longer than the calyx in the male flower, slightly protruding beyond it in the female, funnel-shaped, 4–5-lobed. Filaments glabrous; anthers oblong, exserted, aborted in the female flower. Ovary glabrous, 2-celled, 4-ovuled, smaller and sterile in the male; styles 2; stigmas somewhat horseshoe-shaped, with a pair of irregularly crenately lobed branches. Capsule concealed by the two large membranous, orbicular, veined, accrescent outer sepals, 4-valved, 2-celled. Seeds 1–4, trigonous, glabrous. Much-branched shrubs; some branches elongated, spreading, erect, or climbing, others short and tuberculiform; leaves alternate along the young elongated shoots, or fascicled on the dwarf shoots, small, cuneate-spathulate, subsessile. Flowers axillary on the dwarf shoots, subsessile in the male, on slender stalks in the female.

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Diœcious, flowers small, 4–5-merous. Sepals in the male flower sub-equal, in the female flower 2 or 3 outer much larger than the inner, accrescent. Corolla minute, several times longer than the calyx in the male flower, slightly protruding beyond it in the female, funnel-shaped, 4–5-lobed. Filaments glabrous; anthers oblong, exserted, aborted in the female flower. Ovary glabrous, 2-celled, 4-ovuled, smaller and sterile in the male; styles 2; stigmas somewhat horseshoe-shaped, with a pair of irregularly crenately lobed branches. Capsule concealed by the two large membranous, orbicular, veined, accrescent outer sepals, 4-valved, 2-celled. Seeds 1–4, trigonous, glabrous. Much-branched shrubs; some branches elongated, spreading, erect, or climbing, others short and tuberculiform; leaves alternate along the young elongated shoots, or fascicled on the dwarf shoots, small, cuneate-spathulate, subsessile. Flowers axillary on the dwarf shoots, subsessile in the male, on slender stalks in the female.

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Diœcious, flowers small, 4–5-merous. Sepals in the male flower sub-equal, in the female flower 2 or 3 outer much larger than the inner, accrescent. Corolla minute, several times longer than the calyx in the male flower, slightly protruding beyond it in the female, funnel-shaped, 4–5-lobed. Filaments glabrous; anthers oblong, exserted, aborted in the female flower. Ovary glabrous, 2-celled, 4-ovuled, smaller and sterile in the male; styles 2; stigmas somewhat horseshoe-shaped, with a pair of irregularly crenately lobed branches. Capsule concealed by the two large membranous, orbicular, veined, accrescent outer sepals, 4-valved, 2-celled. Seeds 1–4, trigonous, glabrous. Much-branched shrubs; some branches elongated, spreading, erect, or climbing, others short and tuberculiform; leaves alternate along the young elongated shoots, or fascicled on the dwarf shoots, small, cuneate-spathulate, subsessile. Flowers axillary on the dwarf shoots, subsessile in the male, on slender stalks in the female.