ribbon-like strips surrounded by pieces of wood, has been 
used for burning in place of the cocoa-nut oil employed in 
the smaller islands. This gum, known as Makadre, burns 
better after it has been kept fora time. From the smoke 
a pigment used by the natives for personal adornment. is 
obtained. The material for our figure has been supplied 
by a plant raised at Kew from seeds presented in 1881 by 
Sir J. B. Thurston, then Governor of Fiji. This plant was 
grown in the tropical Palm House until 1897 when it was 
transferred to the newly constructed Mexican House. Here 
it has thriven well and is now a tree twenty-five feet in 
height. The female cone depicted was developed in 1911; 
male catkins had, however, been borne in previous years. 
Descriprion.— Tree, tall, resiniferous ; branches smooth, 
4-angled. Leaves opposite or subopposite, lanceolate, acute 
or bluntish, narrowed at the base, 34-5 in. long, 3_]1 in. 
wide, green above, paler and sometimes pruinose beneath, 
sessile, striate, coriaceous. Cathkins extra-axillary, cylindric, 
1j in. long, 2 in. wide, blunt, base rounded, perulate ; 
peduncles 4 in. long, confluent with the axis; filaments 
x In. long, horizontal, prolonged into a cuneate connective ; 
anther-cells 7, cylindric, pendulous from the base of the 
connective, parallel with and as long as the filament. 
Cones globose, 3} in. long, 34 in. wide; scales woody, 
closely imbricate, about 2 in. across, 1% in. deep, rather 
thickened at the apex, thombiform, detaching trom the 
axis, Seeds solitary, with a membranous coat produced on 
each side as a wing, on one side small and narrow, on the 
other large and broad. 
Figs. 1 and 2, male flowers; 3, two scales with seeds; 4,a seed :—all enlarged. 
