paper in Japan, on which account Salisbury unjustifiably 
rejected Thunberg’s name for that of papyriyerus. 
H. Manihot must have been introduced into England 
before the year 1782, when Dillenius described it as a bi- 
triennial, growing in Sherard’s garden at Eltham, Aiton 
mentions its being cultivated in the Chelsea Garden in 
1812, whence a specimen was sent to the Royal Society as 
one of the fifty plants claimed annually by the Society as 
a condition under which that garden was held by the 
Society of Apothecaries (sce Phil. Trans. n. 333, p. 417, 
n. 64). The specimen here figured is from a plant in the 
Mexican compartments of the Temperate House of the 
Royal Gardens, which made in three months shoots nine 
feet high, flowered for two consecutive months, and 
ripened seed. 
Deser.—A tall, erect, stout, sparsely hairy, annual or 
bi-triennial, four to nine feet: high; branches terete, erect. 
Leaves up to a foot in diameter, orbicular or orbicular- 
ovate in circumscription, palmately five- to seven-lobed, 
lobes linear-oblong or lanceolate, acuminate, coarsely 
toothed serrate or lobulate, dark green; petiole stout, 
about as long as the blade; stipules lanceolate or subulate. 
Bracts at the base of the pedicels small, pinnatifid, stipu- 
late, deciduous, except the stipules. Flowers two to five 
and a half inches in diameter, pedicels deflexed when 
flowering, erect in fruit. Involucel of four to six ovate- 
or ovate-lanceolate, acute, persistent, hirsute, bracteoles 
half an inch to an inch long. Calyx rather longer than 
the involucel, spathaceous, five-toothed, circumsciss at 
the base. Corolla pale yellow, purple at the base, lobes 
rounded. Staminiferous column loosely or closely covered 
with anthers, Stigmas decurved, purple, tips dilated, 
retuse. Capsule oblong, acute, one to two inches long, 
acuminate, hispid.—J. D. H. 
‘Fig. 1, portion of carpels and of staminal tube with style and stigmas; 
2 aud 3, anthers; 4, seed (nat. size); 5, seed :—All but fig. 4 enlarged. 
