plant,* nor had we ever seen a specimen, till the Messrs. Hen- 
derson, of Pine Apple Place, were so good as to send us, in 
March of the present year, a plant, from which our present 
figure is taken. Through what channel the plant came into 
Messrs. Henderson’s possession, they are not aware. It was 
neglected, from having produced no flowers, for a long time, and 
the blossoming brought it to immediate notice; for these blos- 
soms are exceedingly curious in structure, and of great botanical 
interest. “A singular part of the structure of Hupomatia,” Mr. 
Brown goes on to state, “consists in its internal barren, petal- 
like stamens, which, from their number and disposition, com- 
pletely cut off all communication between the anthere and stig- 
mata. ‘This communication appears to be restored by certain 
minute insects eating the petal-like filaments, while the antheri- 
ferous stamina, which are either expanded or reflected, and ap- 
pear to be even slightly irritable, remain untouched.”’ 
There are some differences between our plant and the figures 
made by Mr. Bauer and description of Mr. Brown, but not suffi- 
cient to justify us in forming of it a distinct species. Most of 
Mr. Brown’s description is included in Endlicher’s Gen. Char. 
above given. 
Drscr. The plants we have seen from Mr. Henderson are 
young, and at present not more than a foot high, shrubby, 
branched. Leaves sempervirent, broad-lanceolate, acuminate, 
somewhat cuneate at the base ; petiole very short. Mowers soli- 
tary, terminal on short branches. We have not seen the bud. 
with its curious deciduous hemispherical operculum, which con- 
stitutes, Mr. Brown observes, the only floral covering. The 
jiower then, as seen in our figure, consists of a turbinate green 
receptacle, on the thickened edge of which the numerous stamens 
are arranged in many series, of which the outer are antherife- 
rous, consisting of a broad subulate ji/ament, with a linear ce// 
on each margin, opening longitudinally : all the inner stamens 
are abortive, large, petaloid, obovate, yellow, stained with orange 
or blood-colour at the base, especially the inner ones, and have 
exactly the appearance of a many-petaled corolla, of which the 
outer ones spread so as to cover and conceal the perfect stamens, 
while the inner ones are connivent, and almost conceal the ova- 
ries. The outer of these petaloid stamens have the disc beset 
with conspicuous, stipitate, globose glands, and the margin with 
stellated hairs, while the rest have, both on the disc and on the 
margin, the stipitate glands. (In Mr. Brown’s plant the peta- 
loid abortive stamens are small and all connnivent, much shorter 
* A shrub indeed, called by this name, and sent as such by Allan Cunning- 
ham, more than thirty years ago, to Kew Gardens, proves to be something quite 
different. The leaves have the fragrant smell of some Laurineous plant, but the 
plant has never produced blossoms. 
