from F. E. Taylor, Esq., son of the Colonial Secretary of 
the Bahamas. ‘The plants grew very slowly, and did not 
flower till 1896, when male flowers matured in March, and 
were followed by females in May. The plant has proved 
to be very difficult of propagation. The name is that of 
one of the Bahama Islets (Hleuthera). 
Mr. Morris describes the odour of the flowers as 
deliciously sweet. 
Descr.—A shrub, rarely small tree, attaining twenty 
feet in height, with a trunk eight inches in diameter ; 
branches few, suberect, wiry ; bark fissured ; twigs, petioles, 
leaves beneath, and inflorescence densely covered with 
minute peltate, orbicular, lepidote scales with fimbriate — 
margins. Leaves one and a half to two inches long, de- 
flexed, alternate, petioled, stipulate, ovate-lanceolate, 
narrowed to the obtuse apex, subdenticulate, penninerved, 
base rounded or cordate, upper surface dull pale or dark 
green, under surface dull silvery, the scales obscuring 
the nerves. lowers moncecious, in erect, short, simple 
or branched axillary and terminal racemes, very small, 
globose ; bracts shorter than the pedicels.—Male fl. calyx 
hemispheric, lobes broadly ovate, obtuse. Petals very 
small, longer than the calyx-lobes, obovate-spathulate, 
obtuse, pubescent, white. Stamens 10-15, filaments 
glabrous, anthers oblong. Pistillodes 0.—Fem. jl. at the 
base of the inflorescence. Petals hardly longer than the 
calyx-lobes. Stamens few, very short, imperfect. Ovary 
subelobose, styles multifid. Capsule about a quarter of an 
inch in diameter, subglobose ; valves crustaceous, silvery- 
lepidote. Seeds orange-brown, shining, dorsally flattened, 
laterally compressed, raphe keeled.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Male flower ; 2, the same spread open ; 3, lepidote scales from do.; 
. 4, petal; 5, stamen; 6, female flower; 7, ovary and staminodes of the same; 
8, ovary bisected vertically, showing the ovules :—A// enlarged. 
