Descr. A shrub, said to attain a height of ten to fifteen feet : 
in its native country, with terete, suberect, glabrous dranches, 
richly tinged with red. eaves of two kinds on some specimens, 
in pairs, long-petiolate, the Zarger ones two and a half to three 
inches long, broad-ovate elliptical subtruncate at the base, acute, 
dark glossy-green, with strong, distant, subspinose serratures ; 
petioles half to three-quarters of an inch long, red; the smadler 
leaves nearly orbicular. Peduncles solitary, axillary, shorter 
than the pedicels. lowers small, numerous in very dense, 
amentiform, elliptical heads. Rachis stout, fleshy, to which the 
short pedicels are attached. Flowers dicecious? or polygamous. 
Calyx four- or five-cleft, woolly within, and having four con- 
spicuous fleshy glands. Corolla none. Stamens numerous. 
Filaments long, and, as well es the anthers, golden-orange. 
Ovary oblong, one-celled, with two or three parietal receptacles. 
Style slightly tapering. Stigma minute. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx, showing the four glands and pistil (abortive ?). 
3. Section of a flower. 4. Anther. 5. Gland. 6, 7. Ovaries, cut through 
transversely :—magnified. 
