figured was raised. It flowered in the Arboretum in 
September, 1897. 
Descr.—A tall, fast-growing, deciduous tree, attaining 
a hundred feet in height, with a trunk ten to fifteen feet in 
girth, covered with rough brown furrowed bark ; wood soft, 
reddish. Leaves four to five inches long, ovate, acuminate, 
entire or serrate, bright green, and polished above, pale 
beneath, nerves eight to ten pairs, arched; petiole about 
an inch long, slender. J/ale and fem. inflorescence cre- 
taneous. Male spikes solitary or few, towards the tops of 
the branchlets, shortly peduncled, four to six inches 
long, very slender, pendulous. Flowers small, in globose 
clusters, surrounded by minute green bracts; perianth- 
scales four, obovate, tips toothed. Stamens four, anthers 
didymous, red. em. spikes axillary, and at the base ot 
the males, one to two inches long, sub-sessile, strict, 
linear, blood-red. Flowers minute, in broad, short, im- 
bricating bracts; bracteoles four, orbicular, which even- 
tually coalesce, and are raised on a hardened stipes. 
Ovary very minute, orbicular, compressed, with two 
linear, flattened stigmas. Nutlets orbicular or obcordate, 
crowned with the persistent stigmas.—J. D. H. 
__ Fig. 1, Clusters of male f.; 2, bracteole; 3, male A. and v 
———s and bract ; 5, two fem. fl.; 6, a fem. fl.; 7, young os are ie ‘ 
bes catty col 9, — bracteoles; 10, longitudinal section of nutlet:—4J/ 
