much and finely acuminated, denticulate at the margin, penni- 
nerved, rather glaucous beneath. Peduncles longer than the 
petioles, axillary, single-flowered, solitary, or two to five or six 
in a fascicle, bearmg several remote appressed acuminate brac- 
teoles. Matz flowers with nine sepals, arranged in threes; the 
three outer smaller and calyciform, the six inner petaloid, cori- 
_ aceous, rotundate, spreading, pale yellow, corolloid. In the 
centre of the male flower is a globose, fleshy receptacle, pale 
yellow, with from twelve to sixteen short transverse clefts, form- 
ing so many blunt erect teeth, within each of which is situated 
a sessile anther, opening towards the centre by two longitudinal 
fissures, one in each cell—Frmatn flowers, according to Dr. 
Wallich, with sepals as in the male. Ovaries very small, nu- 
merous, fleshy, ovate, imbricated into a subglobose mass. Style 
none. Berries globose, fleshy, numerous, smooth, scarlet, two- 
seeded, arranged in a cylindrical spike, six inches long, with the 
rachis slightly compressed, muricated as it were by the numerous 
tubercles to which the berries were attached. WJ. H. 
Cur. Although not conspicuous as a showy flowering plant, 
yet the smooth leaves, general neat habit, and free growth of 
this species, make it worthy of cultivation. It is well adapted 
for training up rafters or on trellis-work. The plant from which 
the drawing was made is growing lurnziantly in light loam, and 
trained against the glass in the Palm-stove ; it will also succeed 
in a warm green-house. It increases freely by cuttings placed 
under a bell-glass, and treated in the usual way. J. 8. 
Fig. 1. Anther seen from within. 2. Receptacle of stamens cut through 
vertically. 3. Receptacle entire :—all more or less magnified. : 
