Sound, which differs chiefly in having nearly white 
filaments. 
The specimen here figured was sent to the Director of 
the Royal Gardens, Kew, by General Abadie, C.B. It 
was taken from a plant growing in a cool Palm House in 
the gardens of Mrs. Fitzroy Fletcher, of Letham Grove, 
Arbroath, N.B., where it was raised from seed sent from 
Australia about seven years ago. Mrs. Fletcher informs 
me that the young plant grew very fast, soon flowered, 
and has continued to do so yearly in August. 
Deser.—A moderate-sized, umbrageous tree, with stout 
branches, and persistent, furrowed bark. Leaves scattered 
and sub-opposite, four to six inches long, ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate, finely acuminate, base narrowed into a red 
petiole one to two inches long, thinly coriaceous, very 
dark green above, with a yellow-green midrib and margins, 
paler and not shining beneath; nerves very numerous, 
slender, transverse. Umbels very large, simple or sub-com- 
pound, four to six-flowered ; pedicels terete, slender, an 
inch to an inch and a half long. Calyx about three- 
quarters of an inch long, pyriform, green, mouth not or 
-hardly contracted, lobes connate in a depressed conical, 
deciduous cap. Stamens very numerous, forming a scat 
cup two inches in diameter, with minute, dark red anthe 
Fruit ovoid or urn-shaped, an inch to an inch and a half 
long, an inch and a quarter in diameter, mouth contracted 
with a narrow rim, valves deep down in the body of the 
fruit, connivent.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, cap of sepals; 2, section of ovary with style :—Hnlarged. 
