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Inflorescences terminal or axillary, subcapitate to capitate, with 2 to many spikelets; spikelets usually 1-flowered; bracts herbaceous; bractlets 2, membranous.

圆锥花序顶生或腋生，对头状，具2到多数小穗近头状；通常的小穗1花；苞片草质小苞片2，膜。

Flowers unisexual and plants dioecious; inflorescences without leaflike bracts or with few caducous leaflike bractlets; seeds abaxially longitudinally furrowed for 3/5 length

单性的花和植株雌雄异株；花序没有叶状苞片或具很少早落的叶状的小苞片； 3/5的期间的种子背面的纵沟 11

These plants are valued for their colorful bracts , which look like leaves.

这种植物因其彩色苞片而有价值，这些苞片看起来像叶片。

Flowers bisexual, arising from axils of bracts, small, often subtended by 1 cupular or rarely 3 nearly free bracteoles.

花两性，生于腋的苞片，小，通常被包着以杯状或很少小苞片3近离生。

Umbels compound, loose to subcompact; peduncles usually short or abortive; bracts and bracteoles absent; rays few, spreading-ascending or spreading; umbellules few-flowered.

复伞状花序，松散到近紧密；通常的花序梗短或败育；苞片和小苞片无；伞辐很少，平展上升的或平展；小伞形花序少数开花。

Synflorescence of lax terminal or leaf-opposed, compound umbels; peduncles short or abortive; bracts and bracteoles absent; rays few, slender, spreading-ascending; umbellules rather few-flowered.

复伞形花序疏松顶生或对生，复合（很少单伞形花序；花序梗短或败育；苞片和小苞片无；伞辐很少，纤细，平展上升；小伞形花序相当少数开花。

Pedicels short, bracteate at base; bracts caducous or persistent, linear or linear-oblong, 2-4 mm, apex acute.

花梗短，基部具苞片；宿存的苞片早落或，线形或线状长圆形的，2-4毫米，先端锐尖。

Flowers deep purple to light purple or white, small, ca. 1 cm; pedicels linear, 2-7 cm, slender, soft, glabrous or puberulous, 2-bracteolate above middle; bracteoles linear-subulate, 3-3.5 mm, margin fimbriate at base.

花深紫色到浅紫色或白色，小，长约1厘米；线的花梗，2-7厘米，纤巧，柔软，无毛或被微柔毛，中部以上有2个小苞片；钻形小苞片线形，3-3.5毫米，边缘流苏状在基部。

Compound umbels terminal; bracts and bracteoles absent; umbellules few to many-flowered. Calyx teeth triangular, apex obtuse.

复合的伞形花序顶生；苞片和小苞片无；小伞形花序有花少数至多花；萼齿三角形，先端钝。

Peduncles 7–20 cm; bracts absent; rays 30–50, unequal, 6–12(–20) cm; bracteoles few, linear; umbellules many-flowered.

花序梗7-20厘米；苞片无伞辐30-50，不等长，6-12(-20)厘米；小苞片很少，线形；小伞形花序多花的。

And if officials on the take are not parroting the opinions of these companies, what can we suppose the money they receive is for?

如果受贿的官员不鹦鹉学舌般地复述这些公司的看法，那他们所接受的钱又能用于什么目的呢？

Love them, and love you too, Pitcher.

爱他们，也爱你，投手。