eleven /eaflets, which are oblong-obovate, entire, acuminate, 
cuneate, and tapermg at the base into a short footstalt. Flowers 
very large. Calyx short-cylindrical, truncated; thick and lea- 
thery, clothed with minute, velvety down, bearing a circle of 
conspicuous glands at the base. Peéals full six inches long, 
hnear-strap-shaped, the upper half reflexed, white and smooth 
within, pale greyish or greenish-brown and slightly velvety 
externally. Staminal tube rather short, divided into innumerable 
parcels, each again divided“into eight to ten fi/aments, which are 
yellow below, the rest deep red. _Anthers narrow linear, arcuate. 
Style longer than the stamens, deep red, slender. Stigma small, 
five-lobed. W. J. H. 
Cuur. This, like Pachira alba, figured at Tab. 4508, is a tall 
tree of rapid growth, and, as it requires the temperature of a 
stove, it is adapted only for growing in lofty hothouses, such as 
the Palm-house in the Royal Gardens, in which a plant has 
quickly attained the height of twenty-five feet, and, according to 
_ its present rate of growth, will soon double that height. It has 
not yet flowered, the present figure having been drawn from a 
plant that bloomed when not more than a foot in height, and 
which had but recently been struck from a cutting. It is a fine- 
looking tree, not subject to insects of any kind, and differs from 
Pachira alba in its leaves not being deciduous : in our cultiva- 
tion it appears to have no season of rest. It will grow freely in 
any kind of light loam, kept in a proper state of moisture, and 
increases by cuttings placed under a bell-glass, and the pot 
plunged in bottom-heat. J. S. 
