Descriprion.— Tree of medium height, with Linden-like 
foliage, and capitate inflorescences with two large white 
bracts. Leaves alternate, ovate- or orbicular-cordate, 
abruptly caudate-acuminate, coarsely serrate with glandu- 
lar or thickened teeth, 24-44 in. long, 2-3 in. wide, 
at first adpressed hirsute, especially on the midrib and 
hherves, soon glabrous; main-nerves 5-7 on each side, 
rather prominent, forked; petiole slender, 13-4 in. long, 
almost cylindric, with a faint channel above; stipules 0. 
Inflorescence apparently terminal, capitate, pendulous, 
monogamous or heterogamous; peduncle 2-bracteate near 
the top, in flower 2-3 in., in fruit 3-4 in. long; bracts 
almost opposite, sessile, usually unequal, leafy, white, 
membranous, oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, acuminate, 
base rounded or subcordate, the longer up to 6 in. in 
length, overhanging the pendulous capitulum, soon de- 
ciduous. Capitulum generally heterogamous, about 14 in. 
across, many-flowered, with a solitary 2-sexual and many 
male florets, or with only male flowers, or only a solitary 
female flower; receptacle subglobose, without bracteoles. 
Male flowers sessile, naked or with perianth reduced to a 
swollen ring. Stamens 1-7, or sometimes (Horne) 12, 
attached annularly; filaments well developed, filiform; 
anthers purple, cordate, 2-locular, apiculate. Hermaphro- 
dite (or apparently hermaphrodite) flower shortly pedicelled, 
obliquely set on the globose receptacle. Perianth 0, or 
reduced to minute epigynous scales mixed with the stamens. 
Stamens 5-10 or more—sometimes up to 26 (Horne); small, 
epigynous and usually apparently imperfect. Ovary 
inferior, generally 7-celled; cells 1-ovuled; style-lobes as 
many as cells, much recurved; ovules pendulous. /’ruit 
drupe-like, ellipsoid, about 13 in. long, greenish-yellow 
with brown dots; epicarp and mesocarp thin; endocarp 
bony, very hard, opening by dorsal chinks extending to 
the middle of the fruit; embryo straight, enclosed in a thin 
endosperm ; radicle superior, rather shorter than the oblong 
cotyledons. 
Fig. 1, an inflorescence from which most of the stamens have fallen; 2, a 
cluster of male flowers from which most of the stamens have fallen ; 3,a stamen ; 
4, ovary in transverse section :—al/ enlarged.. 
