with a living plant for the Royal Gardens (which has already 
flowered), informs me that it was discovered by Professor 
Lofgren, head of the Botanical Dept. of the state of 
Sao Paolo, in an island off the coast of Brasil, but whether 
off Para, or off the mouth of the river Santos (Prov. Sao 
Paolo), Mr. Christy cannot inform me. That gentleman 
has observed that the female flowers are not fully developed 
until the males have fallen away. 
Deser.—Stem tall, erect, very robust, upwards of half 
an inch in diameter, and as well as the leaves covered with 
a cottony white or reddish tomentum. Leaves long- 
petioled, thick in texture, ear-shaped, with a deeply 2- 
lobed base, six inches long, dull green, frosted above with — 
sparse white tomentum, mixed with rufous hairs, more 
densely rufously tomentose beneath, margin undulate; 
nerves few, strong, radiating from the sub-peltately 
attached petiole, which is three to five inches long, stout, 
terete, and like the peduncle sparsely clothed with hairs ; 
stipules two inches long, oblong, ventricose, sub-acute, 
almost concealing the internodes of the stem, of a very 
thin but rigidly membranous texture, pale rufous, with 
about eight parallel strong nerves, and very delicate anas- 
tomosing cross nervules. Oymes about four inches broad, 
on rather slender, erect, axillary, red peduncles, eight to ten 
inches long, bisexual ; bracts small, linear-oblong, caducous. 
towers shortly pedicelled, about three-fourths of an inch 
broad, pure white; males with two orbicular sepals, and 
two much smaller, narrowly oblong petals ; female of four 
orbicular sepals and one oblong petal. Stamens many, 
crowded on asmall receptacle ; anthers oblong, much longer 
than the filaments, connective thickened upwards, with a 
produced rounded top, cells narrow, diverging upward. 
Styles very short, horse-shoe shaped, with short, erect 
arms, terminating in twisted tips, all clothed with papillose 
hairs. Ovary trigonous, narrowly three-winged ; placentas 
ae segments covered with ovules on both faces.— 
Fig. 1, Stamen; 2, fem. flowers: 3 ea tion 
of ovary :—All enlaryed. ers; J, ovary and styles; 4, transverse sec 
