Palm House of Kew in May, when quite small; it was 

 received from Mr. Linden, who imported it into Europe. 



Descr. A much branched leafy shrub ; branchlets, petioles, 

 and pedicels clothed with spreading rusty-coloured hairs. 

 Leaves crowded towards the ends of the branches, spreading, 

 two to four inches long, elliptic-oblong obovate or lanceolate, 

 acute, or acuminate, quite entire or obtusely serrated towards 

 the apex, narrowed into a short petiole at the base, membranous, 

 sparsely hairy on the under-surface and midrib above, deep 

 green. Flowers solitary, axillary, very shortly pedicelled, 

 ebracteate, about two inches in diameter, horizontal or 

 nodding. Calyx hemispherical ; tube short, rounded at the 

 base ; lobes orbicular, coriaceous, margins ciliate. Corolla- 

 tule very short, slightly hairy within ; lobes orbicular- 

 obovate, quite glabrous, flat, coriaceous, with impressed dots 

 on the upper surfaoe, very dark green, with paler margins ; 

 throat almost black. Stamens 5, at first conniving over the 

 stigma, then spreading, filaments filiform-subulate. Anthers 

 nearly quadrate, lobes slightly divaricating upwards, extrorse. 

 Ovary ovoid, tapering into a straight slender style, stigma 

 capitate; ovules very numerous, on a globose central 

 placenta. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Vertical section of corolla ; 2, ditto of calyx and ovary ; 3, flower 

 ■i and 5, front and side view of stamens ; 6, ovary opened : — all enlarged. 



