Nautiform

On the island of the Tiber towered the mast-like obelisk of the huge nautiform temple of Aesculapius, whose serpent there deposited, had stayed the plague in the fifth century of Rome.

[…] nautiform, 15 cm long; male flowers small, mixing with bristle-shaped bractlets. Petals 3, similarly as calyx, smaller. Stamens 3, uniting to form a cylindrical structure; anthers basifixed, linear, 2-celled[…]

[…] inner whorl nautiform, ca. 2.2 mm; synandrium with 9 anthers. Female flowers not seen. Infructescences borne on old stems, stout, carpophores stout, […]