green and shining, occasionally spotted with white, and 
having distant papille, of which each is terminated with a 
curved rather harsh hair, red and glabrous below, except 
at the veins, which are sparingly’ dbiads cent, unequally den- 
tato-ciliated, and somewhat angled. Sttpules ovate, acu- 
minate, smooth, entire, marcescent.: py af apres , longer 
than the leaves, turned to one side of the stem, drooping, 
(thrice?) dichotomous ; peduncles.and pedicels flattened. 
Bracteeé opposite, ovate, coloured, deciduous, placed in 
pairs at aah divnion of the cyme,:and at the base of each 
Jfemale flower, but wanting in the male. Male flowers 
placed in the axil of the bifurcations, and, as it would 
appear, always along with a female at the ultimate divi- 
sions of the cyme, where they hang on the outside of the 
female flowers in the two lateral, and, on the inside in the 
two middle divisions of the cyme; each always expands 
before the corresponding female flower. This distribution 
and premature evolution of the male flowers are common — 
in the genus. Corolla tetrapetalous, very unequal, rather 
more so in the female flowers, where the outer petals are 
retuse, full three-quarters of an inch broad by half an inch 
long, in the male cordato-subrotund. Stamens numerous ; 
filaments slender ; anthers large, wedge-shaped. Germen 
inferior, nearly equally winged, the. angles. obtuse, the 
upper edges placed at right angles to the axis of the flower. 
Styles three, channelled, enlarging upwards. Stigmas large, 
lobed, revolute, crisped, and pubescent. ae 
This Sri flowered in the stove of the Royal Botanic 
Garden, Edinburgh, in April of this year, 1828, and at about 
the same season during the three preceding years. We re- 
ceived the plant from Kew in 1824, but without specific 
pine, or any intimation regarding its native country.— 
aham. 
Fig. 1, Stamens, magnified. 2. Truncated Capsule —Nadural size. 
