near the order Laurinea, on account of the structure of its 

 anthers, and by others near Combretacea, probably with better 

 reason, from the structure of the ovary and fruit. The 

 specimen here figured, flowered in the Eoyal Gardens in 

 October, 1869. 



Descr. A small tree ; branches stout, glabrous, covered 

 with the scars of fallen leaves and of axillary buds. Leaves 

 alternate, coriaceous, long-petioled, three to five inches long, 

 young elliptic, old broadly ovate-cordate, obtuse, quite entire, 

 glabrous above, midrib and nerves beneath pilose ; petiole 

 pilose when young, terete, one and a half to three inches long. 

 Peduncles stout, axillary, equalling the leaves, nearly glabrous. 

 Bracts one-third inch long, elliptic, obtuse, sometimes petio- 

 late, densely pubescent on both surfaces, branches of corymb 

 stout, one to one and a half inch long, few, spreading, densely 

 pubescent. Involucral leaves like the bracts, and, together 

 with the flowers, dirty yellow ; nearly half an inch long. 

 Flowers three in each involucre, two males and one female. 

 Male flower two-thirds inch diameter. Sepals four, rarely 

 , five, obovate-oblong. Petals four to five, unequal, sometimes 

 forming one irregular series with the sepals. Stamens four to 

 five, each with one stipitate gland at its base ; filaments 

 clavate. Female flower. Ovary sub-cylindric. Sepals five, 

 elliptic, obtuse, deciduous. Petals as many, similar but 

 smaller ; glands five, reniform, sessile, surrounding the base 

 of the style ; which is short, swollen upwards, pubescent, and 

 suddenly dilated into a reniform discoid stigma. — /. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Female flower; 2, ditto with calyx and corolla removed; 3, male 

 flower with calyx and corolla removed ; 4 and 5, gland and stamen from the 

 same : — all mannifieA 



same : — all magnified. 



