who collected there in 1860-5, and by him it was introduced 
into the Jardin de Plantes, Paris, whence a young plant was 
sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1892. The latter was 
only a foot high when received, but grew so rapidly as 
to attain the dimensions mentioned above by April, 1893, 
when it flowered. 
Deser.—Stem woody, 4-44 ft. high in the plant figured, 
erect, cylindric, dark brown, marked with triangular scars 
of fallen leaves. Leaves at the tip of stem, peltate, 
orbicular-ovate, acute, crenulate, dark green above, with 
golden nerves, young rosy beneath; petiole two to three 
feet long, horizontally spreading, stout, terete, green; 
stipules three to six inches long, free, concave, linear- 
oblong, acute, erect, very pale yellowish green, with 
rusty-brown withering edges and tips. Panicles axillary, 
shorter than the petioles, erect, pyramidal, laxly-branched, 
pale reddish, bearing here and there on the rachis small, 
ovate, acute, deeply toothed, reddish leaves, which are not 
peltate ; bracts at the base of the lower branches an inch 
long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, concave, upper gradually 
smaller. lowers sessile on the suberect branches of the 
panicle, bracteate and bracteolate, all male, except an 
occasional terminal fem. or bisexual; floral bracts § 1. 
long, boat-shaped, incurved, acuminate, 1—2-fld. ; bracteoles 
two, lateral, much smaller than the bracts, linear, obtuse- 
Maun rt.; sepals 3, ovate; stamens numerous, filaments 
shorter than the sepals; anthers 4-lobed, 4-celled. sm. 
FL. 5 perianth of the male; stamens fewer ; ovary oblong, 
with two long subulate styles.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Portion of branch with male infl 
orescence; 2, male branch, 
bracteoles and flowers ; 3, male flowers; 4 and 5, scans 6, tip of branch 
with four male and a bisexual terminal flower :—All enlarged. 
