' fertile seed; 
wise very different genera. Nothing can exceed the beauty 
of the young foliage of Bucklandia, and this has induced : 
me to figure it for the Borantcan Macazine without fresh 
flowers, which will probably not be produced for several 
years. The foliage figured is that of young trees, three to 
five feet high, at present standing on the shelves of the 
Temperate House at Kew, and which are about as many 
years old; they were raised from seeds sent by Dr. King, 
of the Calcutta Botanic Garden, and Mr. Gammie, of Dar- 
jecling. The figure represents by no means the largest 
leaves on the plants, some of which are nearly a foot in 
diameter. The leaves of the young plant have often three 
to five cusps irregularly placed beyond the middle. Those 
of the full-grown tree are much smaller and are always 
entire and green. 
Desor. A tall erect evergreen tree. Leaves long-petioled, 
four to six inches broad and rather longer, broadly ovate- or 
orbicular-cordate, acuminate, coriaceous, glossy green with 
red midrib and nerves, the young more or less deep blood- 
red throughout beneath, but above shot with green ; petiole — 
red, cylindric, two to three inches long; stipules in pairs, 
one to two inches long, obliquely oblong or broader upwards, 
coriaceous, nerved, closely applied face to face in the young 
state, and enclosing a young branch, or the inflorescence, 
which is sharply bent inwards. Flowers in globose uni- 
sexual or polygamous heads an inch in diameter, on bracteate 
silky simple or branched peduncles ; bracts oblong, caducous. 
Caly«-tubes confluent; limb a five-crenate fleshy margin 
(perhaps the disk). Petals linear-oblong, very irregular in 
number, size, and position. Stamens numerous, filaments 
short, slender ; anthers basifixed, oblong. Ovary two-celled. — 
Styles two, divergent, subulate. Capsules in a globose head, _ 
each two-celled, with about six seeds in each cell; two 
upper seeds fusiform and angular, quite solid, without an 
embryo; lower with a long flat ascending wing from one 
side; embryo with oblong flattened cotyledons and a short 
superior radicle.—J, D. H 
. 
Fig. 1, Male head ; 2, petals; 
3 and 4, ; 5, a ; 6, disk and 
carpels; 7, vertical section of di negeiN xierernan “yyciaimamne me iad fe a 
id sees tto, with petal ; 8, transverse section of ditto ; . 
; 10, secti ‘ hs 48% ; ; 
and 5 enlarged, n of ditto; 11, embryo; 12, imperfect seed :—all but figs 
