appear to be dioecious; many, including the subject of our 
plate, are epiphytic. Though they are not parasites these 
epiphytic species nevertheless in time usually destroy the 
trees on which they grow by strangling them. C. grandi- 
flora, here figured, is a native of Guiana and belongs to the 
group Chlamydoclusia, Engl. the species included in which 
are characterised by the peculiar structure of their male 
flowers, which have, within a shallow cup composed of the 
united filaments, a central deep yellow discoid gummy mass 
composed of a very large number of staminodes agglutinated 
together and overlaid by a layer of soft resin. The material 
on which our illustration has been based was derived from 
a plant in the Cambridge Botanic Garden which flowered 
in July, 1910, when specimens were forwarded for study 
by Mr. R. Irwin Lynch. This plant, Mr. Lynch informs 
us, was received at Cambridge from the gardens of the 
Royal Botanic Society at Regent’s Park twenty-two years 
before. At Cambridge it has flourished in a stove in which 
the temperature in severe winters has been as low as 55° F’. ; 
for some seasons past it has flowered annually. The plant 
is now 9 feet high, and has six branches fully furnished 
with fine leaves, some of which are as much as 18 inches 
long and 74 inches across; testimony as to its epiphytic 
habit is _afforded by the production of numerous roots 
varying in thickness from that of a lead pencil to that of 
one’s little finger. Its cultivation among other tropical 
plants has not given rise to any great difficulty ; the best 
soil appears to be a mixture of fibrous peat and loam with 
good drainage. The pot need not be large; that used for 
the Cambridge plant has been a ten-inch one. The plant 
loves moisture both in the air and at the root; it may be 
propagated by cuttings, though some time is required and 
six months may be necessary to establish a specimen. The 
Species 1s not susceptible to insect-pests. 
Drscriprion.— Shrub, dioecious, 10-20 ft. in height, 
epiphytic on large trees which it embraces and ultimately 
strangles by means of its roots; juice yellowish, viscid; 
branches thick, spreading, somewhat angular; twigs about 
3 I. thick, green and smooth. Leaves clustered towards 
the end of the twigs, opposite, distinctly petioled, obovate 
or elliptic-obovate, apex rounded, base obtuse or somewhat 
