clothed with a thick soft white tomentum that is silky in 
the young parts. Leaves drooping, five to eight inches long, 
elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate; rounded or acute at the base, 
thinly coriaceous, bright green above; petiole one half to three 
quarters of an inch long, tomentose. Stipules very deciduous, 
densely tomentose. lowers subsessile, axillary towards the 
ends of the branchlets, very variable in size, three to four 
and a half inches in diameter. Sepals and petals very 
numerous, about eighteen, the outer densely silky and 
concave, the inner spreading flat, rather flexuous, linear- 
oblong, acute or obtuse, pale straw-coloured. Anthers very 
narrow, apiculate, on short filaments. Gynophore and ovaries 
densely tomentose, except the styles, which are glabrous. 
Ripe carpels four to five inches; spike an inch or more long, 
broadly obovoid, pedicelled, warted, slightly compressed, 
1—8-seeded. Seeds large, with a scarlet aril—/. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Stamen; 2, gynophore and ovaries :—both magnified. 
