Obligingly sent in September, 1839, from the stove of 
Cuartes Horsratt, Esq., Liverpool, who received the 
young plant from Bombay when only a foot high. _ It was 
now, in three years’ time, eight feet, erect, simple, and then 
threw out a flowering raceme, twenty-eight inches long, 
and at the same time it began to branch. In its native 
countries, which are the Molucca Islands, the Delta of the 
Ganges, Malabar, &c., it grows to a “ stout timber.” Now 
that Mr. Horsratt’s plant has become branched, should it, 
as that gentleman observes, produce a raceme from each 
branch, it will, with its noble leaves, fifteen inches long and 
five broad, make a most splendid appearance. 
Descr. Trunk lofty and straight. Branches numerous 
and spreading. Leaves alternate, on short petioles, obovato- 
lanceolate, ample, acuminate, serrated, smooth sides, pen- 
ninerved, the nerves connected by transverse nervelets. 
Raceme in this instance terminal, pendulous, many-flowered : 
the rachis stout, everywhere perfectly glabrous, Flowers 
on short pedicels, with minute, caducous bracteas. Calyx- 
limb of two or three broadly-oval, obtuse, spreading, per 
sistent lobes. Petals four, ovate, concave, yellowish, com- 
bined with the united bases of the copious stamens, and 
falling off with them. Filaments longer than the petals, 
red: Anthers rounded, two-celled, yellow. Ovary small, 
inferior, turbinate, “ two-celled, with several ovules in each 
cell, attached to the middle of the partition.” Style longer 
than the stamens, red, filiform. Stigma obtuse. “‘ Fruit 
drupaceous, of the size of a large pullet’s egg, and not 
unlike one in shape, only somewhat four-sided, nearly 
smooth on the outside, olive-green within, flesh rather 
ed and brown, one-celled. Seed solitary, ovato-ob- 
ong.” 
Big oa Nh Sse ia TK 6 ee ke ag eS 
Fig. 1. Reduced figure of Mr. HorsFatt’s plant, from a sketch by Miss 
Horsratu. 2. Leafand part of a race ; d portion 
ofthe Stamens. 4. ened magnified, me, nat, size. 8. Petal and po | 
