dried specimens in our herbarium. ‘The female fructification 1s 
produced in the winter months, and attains the appearance and 
size of the fruits represented in our figure. The fleshy recep- 
tacles are said to be eaten by the Nepalese. 
Drscr. Our plants are from six to seven feet high, much 
branched, the branches copiously furrowed from the decurrent 
petioles. eaves scattered, approximate, sometimes appearing 
verticillate in whorls of three to five, narrow, lanceolate, acute, 
coriaceous, the margins slightly revolute, dark green above, pale 
and slightly glaucous beneath, below tapering into a very short 
decurrent petiole. Male amenta axillary, sessile, solitary, cy- 
lindrical, slender, an inch or more long, arising from a cup- 
shaped scaly involucre. Azthers numerous, imbricated, two- 
celled, much acuminated, at length reflexed. Pedwncle of the 
female solitary, axillary, single-flowered, about half an inch long. 
Receptacle of the fruit oblong, fleshy, soon enlarging, especially 
in breadth, with an oblong depression at the top, and variously 
lobed on each side, from pale yellow-green becoming orange-red, 
at length deep purple, slightly glaucous, bearing a small subulate 
recurved bractea at the base. At the apex it bears an obovate 
glaucous-green seed. Sometimes two or more receptacles grow 
from the same peduncle, and such a one we have seen to be 
proliferous at the extremity. 
Fig. 1. Peduncle, with female fructification. 2. Peduncle, bearing a double 
receptacle and two seeds :—magnified. 
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