and Martin. A native ofethe Eaft-Indies, where it grov 
into a tree; the bark is covered with a white wool, as is the} 
underfide of the leaves, which are peltate and fupported on 
long footftalks thickened at both ends. Flower terminal, 
fweet-{cented: Calyx very like thick buff leather. Petals 
white, oblong, the length of the calyx, widened at the tip, 
oblique, inferted into the receptacle. Real ftamens fifteen, 
with long twifted anthers ; filaments united at the bafe ; among 
thefe are five club-pointed bodies, twice the length and much 
ftouter than the filaments, as. thefe are the only internal parts 
which come in fight without forcibly opening the flower, this 
has the appearance, when fuperficially obferved, of being | 
pentandrous; but thefe bodies have no anthers. Has been 
fome time known in our colleétions, but we have never heard 
of its having flowered in this country until laft September, 
at Meffrs. Wuirtey and Brames at Old-Brompton, where 
our drawing was taken. ; SHIEG- = cnn | 
Mutt be kept in the ftove in the Winter, but in the Summer | 
may be removed into the greenhoufe. Is propagated by feeds | 
imported from the Eaft-Indies, ee ee | 
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