supplied the material for our figure was raised at Glasnevin 
from seed sent by Dr. R. Schlechter from New Guinea in 
1908. Only one seed germinated and the resulting plant 
has been grown in an intermediate house with a mimimum 
night temperature of 55° F. in a compost of fibrous loam, 
peat and leaf mould. It is of branching habit, under a foot 
in height. In winter most of the shoots die down to the 
crown. Propagation is readily effected by cuttings. 
Descriprion.—Herb, erect, 5-8 in. high; stems tinged 
with red, crisply hairy, about as thick as a crow-quill 
above. Leaves lanceolate-oblong, acute, very unequal at 
the base and strongly auriculate on one side, 24-2 in. 
long, 14 in. wide; deeply double serrate, green, shining 
and finely punctulate above, finely and sparingly pubescent 
on the sunken nerves, but elsewhere glabrous, more or less 
tinged with red beneath and with prominent hispidulous 
nerves, the fine reticulations hardly visible and_ the 
mesophyll closely white punctate; petiole about 2 Iin. 
long, pubescent like the stem; stipules lanceolate, their 
midrib produced in a slender tip about 2 lin. long, mem- 
branous, pale green, including the tip about 2 in. long and 
about 2 lin. wide. Flowers 1-sexual, shortly pedicelled. 
Perianth-segments in the male flower 2, free, valvate, ovate. 
Stamens 12-20; filaments united in a column for most of 
their length; anthers basifixed, oblong-ovate; dehiscence 
lateral. Perianth-segments of female tlower connate In a 
yellow campanulate tube, hairy on the outside; 
obes 5, ovate, serrulate, spreading. Ovary quite inferior, 
3-winged, wings almost triangular, sharply acuminate ; 
styles 3, connate below, deeply 2-fid, with a spiral stig- 
matic surface; placentas 2-lamellate, lamellae parallel, 
bearing ovules on both surfaces. 
Fig. 1, style arms :—enlarged. 
