been received from the Botanical Gardens of Demerara, 

 Ceylon, Darjeeling, Alipore (Calcutta), and the Jardin des 

 Plantes; and dried leaves from Peru and various other 

 sources ; it is distinguished by the rather large leaves 

 with an acute or rounded apiculate apex. Another form, 

 var. novo-granatensis, with smaller leaves, often retuse 

 at the apex with an apiculus, is figured in Bentley and 

 Trimen's Medicinal Plants, vol. i. t. 40. It is cultivated 

 in New Grenada, and was presented to Kew in 1869 by 

 A. Dixon, Esq., of Cherkley Court, Leatherhead, who 

 raised it from seeds sent him by the Bishop of Huanuco, 

 a town in Peru, N.E. of Lima. A third, also in cultivation 

 at Kew, is var. Sjoruceana, with acute leaves very much 

 smaller than in that here figured, and of a very bright pale 

 green colour. It was raised from seeds sent from the 

 Botanical Gardens of Java. 



The plant here figured was received from the Botanical 

 Garden of Demerara in 1884, and flowered in the Royal 

 Gardens, Kew, in April, 1893. — /. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Portion of branch with stipules ; 2, section of young leaf showing 

 venation ; 3, flower with the petals removed ; 4, petal ; 5 and 6, stamens ; 

 7, ovary ; 8, fruit from a Herbarium species : — All but fig. 8 enlarged. 



