figured flowered at Kew in January of the present year, 
and specimens are flowering in the present month (May). 
Descr. A woody shrub or small tree, with a stout stem 
and numerous rambling branches, that climb over forest 
trees ; bark of branches glabrous or nearly so, red-brown, 
covered with white spots. Leaves alternate, four to twelve 
inches long, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, rarely oblanceo- 
late, acute or acuminate, quite entire, bright green and 
shining, coriaceous, paler beneath; petiole one-third to 
half an inch long, terete. Racemes axillary or rather above 
the leaf-axils, solitary or in terminal panicles, three to seven 
inches long, erect or spreading, at length drooping ; rachis 
stout, clothed to near the base with flowers ; bracts small, 
tomentose. Flowers numerous, shortly stoutly pedicelled, 
three-fourths of an inch broad across the stamens, fragrant. 
Calyx of six pubescent oblong two-seriate spreading de- 
ciduous sepals. Corollanone. Stamens about one hundred, 
inserted on a globose receptacle, spreading; filaments 
slender, yellow; anthers small, oblong. Ovary ovoid, 
obscurely three-angled, pubescent, stalked, three-celled by 
the intrusion of three parietal placentas which are confluent 
in the axis of the ovary; style very short, with three 
erect subulate stigmas ; ovules very numerous in the inner 
angles of the cells. Drupe one to one and a half inch long, 
broadly ellipsoid or oblong, shortly stipitate, orange-yellow 
with white specks; pulp soft, yellow; endocarp thin, 
smooth, but woody, splitting into three valves, one-seeded. 
Seed oblong; embryo erect; cotyledons very unequal, one 
larger deeply concave with the smaller in its concavity; 
radicle inferior, minute.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Bract and flower, with stamens removed; 2 and 3, stamens; 4, ovary 
and receptacle ; 5, transverse section of ovary:—all enlarged. 
