of the fallen leaves. ‘The upper pairs of panicles were all 
female, the lower pairs were male. 
_ This interesting plant, which is called the Poison-tree in 
Queensland, was received from Dr. de Regel, of the 
Botanical Gardens of St. Petersburg, in March, 1887; it 
flowered in a stove soon after, and the drawing of the 
fruit was made in April, 1888. In July of the same year _ 
it flowered again, bearing both male and female flowers. 
The fruit remains on the plant in a plump condition for 
nearly a year. 
Descr. A large shrub or small tree, clothed with 
very fine virulently stinging hairs. Leaves six to eight 
inches long, broadly ovate-cordate with an acute sinus 
_ often peltately attached to the petiole, acuminate, coarsely 
serrate, pubescent or villous especially beneath, bright 
green above with purplish depressed nerves, paler and 
yellowish beneath with prominent nerves ; petiole shorter 
than the blade. Panieles of flowers in pairs from the 
axils of the lowest leaves or scars of fallen leaves, pe- 
duncled, about as long as the leaves, drooping, pendulous 
in fruit ; male panicles few and below the females. Male 
flowers minute, shortly pedicelled, pedicel bibracteolate ; 
perianth four-cleft, four-androus, lobes obtuse; stylode 
minute; anthers exserted. Female flowers very minute, in 
minute globose heads on zigzag branchlets of the panicle; 
very shortly pedicelled; two outer sepals most minute, 
two upper hooded, enlarging in fruit, becoming fleshy, purple, 
shiny, and almost concealing the small achene. Achenes 
green, flattened, obliquely ovoid, rather beaked ; endocarp 
covered with low tubercles.—/J. D. H, 
Fig. 1, Male flowers and bracteoles ; 2, male fl. expanded ; 3, female flowers ; 
4 and 5, fruits; 6, inner sepal; 7 and 8, immature and mature achenes:—all 
enlarged. 
