our plate. The female flowers, drawn earlier, were from a 
Kew specimen; the male from one kindly supplied from his 
collection at Aldenham by Mr. Vicary Gibbs. 
Descriprion.—Shrub 5-6 ft. high, with rather stout 
unarmed branches, glabrous even when young, when 
mature clothed with chestnut-brown somewhat shining 
bark. Buds rather large, ovoid, } in. long, their scales 
scarious, rounded-ovate, obtuse, finely apiculate, brown and 
glabrous except along the finely ciliolate edges. Leaves 
short petioled, scattered, ovate or ovate-oblong, acute, base 
rounded, margin serrate-crenate with gland-tipped teeth 
except for the entire basal fourth to third, 24-4 in. long, 
1_2 in. wide, coriaceous, quite glabrous, 3-5-nerved at the 
base with a few very oblique nerves leaving the midrib above 
the base ; petiole stout, 1-2 in. long, more or less beset with 
setae which are at times glandular. Male: Racemes 
pendulous, slender, 1-13 in. long, up to 12-flowered; 
peduncles bracteate, about 4 in. Jong; pedicels about 4 in. 
long ; bracts somewhat membranous, oblong, acute, greenish, 
sparingly glandular-ciliate, up to $ in. long. lowers 
greenish, 1} in. across, glabrous except for the minutely 
pubescent, somewhat cup-shaped receptacle. Sepals wide- 
oblong or rather rounded, obtuse, 4 in. long. Petals 
spathulate, 35 in. long. Stamens about as long as the 
petals; filaments under 1 lin. long; anthers rounded. 
Style 2-fid. Female: Racemes at first erect but in fruit 
pendulous, slender, about 3 in. long, up to 12-flowered, 
when in flower shortly peduncled; pedicels in flower 4 in. 
long, in fruit } in. long; bracts as in the male, deciduous. 
Flowers greenish, 1} in. across; glabrous except for the 
finely grey-tomentose flask-shaped or oblong receptacle. 
Sepals and petals as in the male flowers but smaller. 
Stamens reduced to small red staminodes. Style under 
jz in. long; stigmata 2, short, subglobose. Fruit wide- 
elliptic, tipped by the slightly enlarged calyx, about 3 in. 
long, over 1 in. wide, minutely tomentose, reddish. 
Fig. 1, male flower ; 2, female flower; 3, fruit in transverse section ; 4, seed :— 
all enlarged. 
