cuneate, sometimes unequal, margin entire, 6-12 in. long, 
3-6 in. wide, coriaceous, glabrous, dark green above with 
the lateral nerves obscure, paler beneath with the lateral 
nerves faintly visible, but marked with numerous blackish 
ascending lines, midrib prominent on both sides; petiole 
3-43 in. long, partially stem-clasping at the base, flattened 
on the upper aspect in the lower third. lowering twigs 
appearing in the axils of the upper pair of leaves on a shoot, 
each over 1 in. long and each with one pair of cataphyllaries 
and 1-3 pairs of leaves. Cymes terminal, 3-2-flowered ; 
peduncles over | in. long, slightly decurved ; pedicels 1 in. 
long or rather longer; bracts deltoid-ovate, about 3 in. 
long ; bracteoles like the bracts, obtusely keeled and rather 
shorter. Male: Sepals 6, white with rosy margins, in three 
pairs, the outer and inner in front and behind, the central 
pair lateral; outer sepals smaller than the rest, wide ovate- 
elliptic, central transversely elliptic, 2 in. long, 14 in. wide, 
inner elliptic, nearly 1} in. long, 1 in. wide. Petals 8, 
white, rosy towards the base, with pyriform outline, about 
24 in. long, 2 in. wide, with a wide slightly umbonate 
smooth centre. Stamens about 500, ivory white, irregularly 
3-serlate, the outer larger than the others; filaments 
connate below in a cup about 14 in. across and 3 in. deep, 
their free portions 1 lin. long or less; anthers opening 
laterally, those of the outer series linear, slightly narrowed 
upwards, about 24 lin. long, with a broad connective which 
is produced as a subulate appendage as long as the anther, 
those of the inner series about half as long, with a very 
short appendage. Staminodes very many, agglutinate in 
a central discoid gummy mass about 3 in. wide and over 
4 in. high. Female: Ovary subglobose; stigmas 14-15, 
sessile, radiate. Capsule broadly ovoid, white, depressed 
globose and 14-15-valved when it dehisces. Seeds many, 
enveloped in an orange-coloured arillus. 
Fig. 1, longitudinal section through a portion of the staminal cup; 2 and 3, 
stamens; 4, central resinous mass “anedea the agglutinated staminodes, in 
vertical section and surrounded behind by the stamens of the innermost series ; 
5, group of staminodes from the centre of the flower:—4 slightly, the others 
much enlarged, 
