Descr. An upright growing, unbranched tree, with 
somewhat of the habit of a Palm, the foliage being large 
and confined to the top of the tree; every part yielding @ 
slightly acrid and somewhat milky juice. Stem twelve to 
fourteen feet high in the stove of our garden, in the tropics 
attaining to a height of twenty feet and more, cylindrical, 
or, generally, thickened towards the base, clothed with a 
pale greyish, rather smooth bark, here and there marked 
with the scars whence the old leaves have fallen. Leaves 
spreading, often a foot in length, petiolated, heart-shaped 
in their circumscription, cut into seven oblong, sinuated or 
laciniate and almost pinnatifid, rarely entire lobes or la 
cinia, acute at the points, the middle one the longest*and 
the most divided, glabrous on both sides, dark green above, 
and marked with the much ramified pale veins, beneath 
much lighter coloured, with prominent veins. Petiole ove 
to two feet long, glabrous, cylindrical. , 
Flowers (male) in slightly compounded racemes or patl- 
cles, springing from the axils of the leaves, several inches 
long. Peduncles and pedicels terete, glabrous. Calyx very 
minute, a little concave, with five very small teeth. Corolla 
infundibuliform, an inch or an inch and a half long, yel- 
lowish white, of a thickish, subcoriaceous texture, espec! 
ally the tube, which is cylindrical: Zimb cut into five 
lacinie, oblong, imbricating each other, as they do in the 
state of the bud. Stamens ten, inserted into the mouth of 
the tube, and all on the same line, five nearly sessile one, 
opposite the segments, and five furnished with evident fila 
ments, and, of course, taller. Filaments white, halry, 
thickened upwards: Anthers of two, linear-oblong, chat 
nelled cells, projecting on one (in the in-) side of the extte 
mity of the filament. Abortive Pistil small. Germen ob- 
long: Style subulate : Stigma none. Female Flower’, 
which I have not myself had the opportunity of examining, 
m short, simple racemes, upon a different tree from he 
male, or occasionally on the same : and, indeed, according 
to Trew, the flowers are sometimes hermaphrodite*. 
as in themale. Corolla much larger than in the male, of 8 
yellower colour, cut nearly to the base into five, oblong: 
moderately spreading segments, or, if we may trust the 
figures, pentapetalous. Pistil : Germen large, ovato-0 
long, green: Stigmas nearly sessile, of five, radiate, cue 
ated 
se 
* In this case the stamens, judgi am neo 
: » judging from the figure, alternately sma™¢ 
in the male, are placed at the yery base of the mate and all are 
with distinct filaments. ti 
