fallen leaves. The form of the /eaves is cordate, rather obtuse, 
of a firm subcoriaceous texture, about six inches long by five 
broad, having a deep and acute sinus at the base; the margin 
is three- to seven-lobed, lower lobes very obtuse, entire, not ser- 
rated, as represented by Bonpland, five- to seven-nerved, and 
these principal nerves are united by transverse reticulated ones, 
prominent beneath ; young leaves tomentose on both sides, older 
ones nearly glabrous above, densely tomentose beneath ; the éo- 
mentum rich, ferruginous, composed of stellated hairs, as shown 
at Fig. 5. The youngest leaves have small recurved stipules. 
Petioles from three to four inches long. owers large, solitary, 
lateral, from among the crowded terminal leaves, and opposite 
to the insertion of a petiole. Peduncle an inch or an inch and a 
half long, obtusely triangular, very stout, curved, single-flowered, 
bearing two, ovate, acuminate, deciduous bracts, of which one 
is appressed to the flower. Flower four inches long, including 
the stamens. Perianth single, calycine, two inches long, and 
quite as much broad, thick, firm, coriaceous, downy, of a rusty- 
red colour, brighter and glabrous and glossy and somewhat 
wrinkled within, cup-shaped, deeply (two-thirds of the way down) 
divided into five, large, acute, erect lobes, which have the mar- 
gins a little reflexed, and a strong dorsal keel, which terminates 
below in five gibbosities or spurs, forming internally as many 
deep nectariferous cavities, of a bright yellow colour. Stamens 
five, monadelphous, bright-red, nearly four inches long, one-third 
of them below uniting into a tubular column, which at the spread- 
ing base combines with the perianth, exhibiting five, spreading, 
yellowish rays or lobes, alternating with the nectariferous cavi- 
ties ; the rest of the stamens are free, and spread ina fan-shaped 
manner, like the fingers of the hand (whence the name Cherro- 
stemon), or rather, like birds’ claws, and like them curved to one 
side, cylindrical, very much acuminated. On the under side of 
these five filaments (and externally, with regard to the axis of 
the flower) are two, long, linear, yellow anther-cells, charged with 
copious bright-yellow pollen. Ovary quite concealed within the 
base of the monadelphous stamens, five-lobed, woolly, tapering 
into a bright-red, clavate style, shorter than the stamens, an 
bending towards them: this tapers into the acute stigma. The 
fruit we have only seen from dried native specimens. That here 
figured (nat. size) is taken from one in the Museum of the Royal 
Gardens of Kew: for its structure, see the generic character. 
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Fig. 1. Flower, with the perianth and staminal tube partially laid Ay aie 
slightly magnified. 2. Pistil. 3. Transverse section of ovary. 4. Stellated hairs 
of the leaf:—magnified. 5. Fruit,—nat. size. 
