Tas. 5932. 
MERYTA LATIFOLIA. 
Native of Norfolk Island. 
Nat. Ord, Aratiacee.—Series PANACER. 
Genus Meryta, Forst. ; (Benth. and Hook. f., Gen. Plant., vol. i. p. 933). 
Meryta latifolia ; foliis 1-3-pedalibus elongato-obovatis vy. subpanduri- 
formibus basi angustata subcordata, petiolo crassissimo breviusculo, 
thyrso florum hermaphroditorum terminali oblongo erecto, capitulis 
bracteatis compositis cylindraceo-oblongis secus rachim crassissimam 
spicatis, floribus sessilibus flavis densissime confertis, calycis tubo 
oblongo utrinque truncato, limbo 6-lobo reflexo, staminibus stylisque 
6, ovario 6-loculari. 
Meryra latifolia, Seemann in Bonplandia, 1862, p. 295; Flor. Viti, p. 119. 
Borryopenpron latifolium, Endl. Prodr. Flor. Ins. Norfolk., p. 62; Walp. 
Rep., vol. ii. p. 433. 
ARALIA macrophylla, Cunningham, ex MSS. 
The noble foliage of this very curious plant renders it a 
conspicuous ornament in a stove large enough to show it off 
to advantage, where it should be placed so as to tower above 
the surrounding vegetation; under which circumstances it 
rivals the Grias caulifiora figured at Tab. 5622 of this work. 
It is a native of Norfolk Island, where it was discovered by 
F. Bauer during Flinders’ voyage to Terra Australis, and by 
whom careful drawings were made on the spot, which are 
deposited in the Imperial Herbarium of Vienna, and from 
which Endlicher’s description was drawn up. Since that 
period it has been collected by Allan Cunningham, during 
his visit to Norfolk Island, when superintendent of the 
Botanic Gardens of Sidney, and who sent living plants to 
the Royal Gardens, Kew, about thirty-five years ago. One of 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1871. 
