for Messrs. Veitch. Flowers of it were preserved, and are 
_ now in the Kew Herbarium, and the living plant from which | 
the drawing is made is in the collection of its importers, 
with whom it flowered in July of the present year. 
_ Drscr. A glabrous shrub; branches terete. Leaves 
eight to ten inches long, almost exactly elliptic, base con- 
tracted and decurrent as a very broad complicate petiole 
one to one and a half inches long, which expands and is 
stem-clasping at the base, margins nearly entire or very 
obscurely waved, upper surface deep green, raised between 
the eighteen to twenty spreading nerves, which, as well as 
the midrib, are very prominent beneath. Flowers three 
inches in diameter, subcymose on a simple peduncle two to 
four inches long, very shortly pedicelled. Sepals nearly 
orbicular, very concave, coriaceous, green. Petals pale 
golden-yellow, obovate-oblong, disk hollowed, margins 
broadly undulate. Flowers very many, almost white ; 
anthers almost filiform, with terminal pores. Ovary broadly 
ovoid, of seven carpels with as many filiform flexuous 
stigmas.—J. D. H, 
Fig. 1, Stamen; 2, imperfect outer ditto; 3, apex of anther; 4, ovary; 
5, transverse section of ditto :—all enlarged. 
