and all the younger parts, the petioles, leaves beneath, panicles, 
calyx, and fruit clothed with rusty down. Leaves one to two 
feet long, pinnated with four or five pairs of opposite, elliptical 
leaftets, smooth and glossy above, penninerved, the nerves very pro- 
minent and conspicuous beneath. Panicles terminal, often very 
compound, furnished with small deciduous red bracteas. Calyx 
obtuse or truncated at the base, cup-shaped, cut into five equal, 
hairy, ferruginous, ovato-triangular, erect segments. Pefa/s four, 
white, suborbiculate, erose, slightly hairy, erect or a little in- 
curved, shorter than the calyx, clawed : within are two, large, spa- 
thulate, inflexed, hairy scales or appendages, the back near the apex 
of each bearing a glandular yellow stipitate crest. Stamens eight, 
erect, longer than the calyx and corolla, equal. i/aments 
subulate. Anthers oblong, two-celled, erect, pale yellow. Ovary 
subrotund, three-lobed, seated on one side of and upon a large 
bright orange-coloured fleshy g/and or disk, densely clothed with 
ferruginous down and hairs: sfy/e longer than the stamens, with 
spreading sete: stigma minute, three-fid. /rwit a three-lobed, 
depressed capsule, each lobe opening in the centre by a vertical 
fissure, and containing a solitary brown seed, enveloped by a pulpy 
arillus. Embryo green. W.J. H. 
Cunt. A large tree of robust growth, in its native forests 
conspicuous above the other trees, the bark having an iron-like 
appearance. It is a native of the east coast of New Holland, 
about 31° south latitude, and therefore not adapted for out-door 
cultivation in this country. The plant from which the drawing 
was made was introduced in 1825, and for a number of years 
was kept in the green-house, and shifted as it increased m 
size into a larger pot, and ultimately into a plant-tub, in 
which it out-grew our green-house accommodation ; this caused 
it to be removed into the tropical Palm-house, where the 
stimulus of a warmer atmosphere induced it to flower for the 
first time during the present summer, and having perfected 
its seeds it has enabled us to obtain a stock of young plants; for 
on account of its little tendency to throw out lateral branches 
we have not had the opportunity of increasing it by cuttings. 
It has therefore been considered a rare plant in this country, 
and being best adapted for growing in lofty houses, it can 
only be valued by a few; but as it is of remarkable and 
striking habit, and on that account worthy of being admired, it 
may be kept in a small state for a number of years; like a 
second plant in this garden of the same age, which is not half 
the size of the first. J. 8. 
Fig.1. Flower. 2. Petal with its appendages. 38. Stamen. 4. Pistil and 
hypogynous gland :—magnified, 5. Capsule. 6. Pulpy arillus, containing the 
ane 7. Arillus laid open, showing the seed. 8, Seed. 9. Embryo :-— 
ural size. . 
