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Milne's introduction, and only the female is known. 

 According to Seemann, in the publication cited above, it 

 flowered at Kew again in 1862, and it has often flowered 

 since in the Palm House, and more recently in the warm 

 end of the Temperate House. 



There are also flowering specimens in the Herbarium, 

 and a photograph of the plant from the Botanic Garden, 

 Cork, sent by Professor Hartog in 1890. Mr. Watson 

 notes that it is propagated from eyes, and that it is used 

 as a stock on which Aralia Veitchii and several other stove 

 species are grafted. 



Descr. — A small, dioecious tree. Trunk slender, usually 

 simple, sometimes forked or sparingly branched ; the 

 female specimen here figured, cultivated at Kew, about 

 seventeen feet high, with a trunk three inches in diameter 

 at the base, and leaves as much as three feet and a half 

 long. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, glabrous, very variable 

 in size and shape; of quite young plants linear, six to 

 twelve inches long, and a third to half an inch wide ; of 

 flowering plants strap-shaped, lanceolate or oblanceolate, 

 one and a half to four feet long, two to nine inches broad, 

 coarsely undulate-crenate, acute or rounded at the tip, 

 tapering to the base ; midrib thick ; primary lateral veins 

 running out at the crenatures ; petiole stout, compressed. 

 Female flowers capitate, in panicles two or three feet long, 

 springing from the axils of the upper leaves. Branches of 

 the panicles and the peduncles thick and fleshy. Flowers 

 sessile, densely crowded, connate at the very base only, 

 yellow-green. Cahjx-limb obsolete. Petals usually about 

 ten, ligulate or oblong, recurved, persistent, scarcely longer 

 than the styles. Stamens ten, imperfect. Ovary usually 



ten-celled ; ovules solitary, pendulous. Fruit unknown. 



W.B.H. 



Fig 1, a female flower containing imperfect stamens; 2 and 3, stamens 

 from the same; 4, another view of a female flower; 5, cross section of an 

 ovary; o, tangential section of the same; 7, reduced sketch of plant x—all 

 enlarged, except 7, which is about one-fortieth of the natural size. 



