tapering at the base, sessile, and there obliquely twisted, 
acuminate at the upper extremity, the margin finely spi- 
nulosely serrate, the upper surface dark, shining green, 
with two depressed longitudinal lines, the under very glau- 
cous, except on the midrib and at the margin. Male 
Catkins at the extremity of the younger branches, sur- 
rounded at the base by several green, obtuse, imbricated 
scales, themselves formed of a number of triangular, brown, 
serrulated, peltate scales, bearing on their lower margin 
three or four pendent, oval, one-celled anthers, opening 
internally with a longitudinal fissure: Pollen yellow, glo- 
bular. The fruit is, according to Ricuarp, an ovate Cone, 
whose scales are coriaceous, reddish, somewhat triangular, 
shortly unguiculated, the margin minutely toothed, having, 
within, the floriferous scale, which is free at the top and 
denticulated, immediately beneath which, the three peri- 
carps are seen pendent, obovate, compressed, fixed near the 
upper extremity, which is truncated, while the base is 
emarginate, the margin alate. Albumen formed like the 
seed, enclosing a nearly cylindrical dicotyledonous Embryo, 
its radicle pointing downwards. 
It was our good fortune to have, in the stove of the 
Botanic Garden of Glasgow, a plant of the CunnincHAmM1A, 
lanceolata bearing its male flower in the winter of 1826—7: 
and thus, by the aid of Ricuarn’s figures, for the female 
part of the fructification, to offer, we trust, a satisfactory 
delineation of this rare plant. It was introduced from 
China to the Royal Gardens at Kew, in 1804, and, by Mr. 
Arron, kindly giventous. © * 
Mr. Lamserr has published a splendid figure of it from 
dried DA agape = ae but the male flowers he had never seen, 
and only a very young male amentum seems to have been 
known to Ricuarp. Mr. Sauissury called the genus Betis, 
a name that has been considered too nearly allied to Bexus, 
and hence originated that of CunnincHamia, given by Mr. 
Brown, to commemorate the merits of Mr. James Cunnine- 
HAM, “ an excellent observer in his time, by whom this plant 
was discovered ; and in honour of Mr. Attan CunnincHAM, 
_ the very deserving Botanist who accompanied Mr. Ox.ey - 
in his first expedition into the interior of New South Wales, 
and Capt. Kine in all his Voyages of Survey of the Coast of 
Fig. 1. Scale of the Male Flower, with three, and fig. 2 ditto, with four 
Anthers. 3. Cone. 4. Scale of ditto, with three Seeds. 5. Section of # 
Seed, ~All but fig.3 magnified. Fig. 3, 4, and 5 from Richard. 
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