the scanty material accessible in European herbaria. He 

 confines Trevesia to four species, of which palmata is the 

 type, the others being the Javan T. swndaica, Miquel, T. 

 Burckii) Boerlage (to which he refers T. jmlmata, var. 

 cheirantha, Clarke in Fl. Brit. Inch), and a new Sumatran 

 species, T. Beeearii, Boerlage. Clarke's T. palmata var. 

 irmgnis of the Khasia Mountains in India, he refers to the 

 genus Eschweilera, Zipp., distinguished by the petioles 

 being crested at the base and the pyrenes woody, and unites 

 it to E. insignis (Trevesia irmgnis, Miquel). Eschweilera 

 seems to be founded on very slight characters, and I greatly 

 doubt Clarke's Khasian ins ignis being the same with the 

 Eschweilera insignis of Boerlage. T. palmata has long 

 been cultivated in the Palm House at Kew, and is no doubt 

 one of the earliest contributions from the Calcutta Gardens. 

 It stands about five feet high, flowers every winter, and 

 the flowers have a disagreeable heavy smell. 



Desor. Stem five to twelve feet high, very slender, prickly, 

 especially towards the tips of the very few erect branches, 

 which are rufously tomentose and setose. Leaves crowded 

 at the ends of the branches, one to one and a half feet in 

 diameter, palmately or digitately five- to nine-lobed, 

 coriaceous, sinuses rounded ; lobes lanceolate, acuminate, 

 serrate or lobulate ; petiole one to one and a half feet long, 

 prickly, base with a two-lobed stipulary sheath. Panicles 

 long-peduncled, much shorter than the leaves, pubescent 

 or glabrate ; bracts oblong, obtuse, caducous ; umbels six 

 mches in diameter or less, long peduncled, many-rayed, 

 puberulous ; pedicels one and a half inches or less. Flowers 

 one inch in diameter and less ; calyx truncate, ten-toothed ; 

 petals usually six to ten, greenish white ; disk and style 

 yellow. Stamens six to ten. Style conic, grooved, stigma 

 truncate toothed ; ovary eight to ten-celled. Fruit sub- 

 globose, " size of a nutmeg, of a soft woody texture " 

 (Roxburgh). 



Fig. 1, Ovary; 2 and 3, petalr ; 4 and 5, stamens: 0, transverse section of 

 ovary : — all enlarged. 



