to that of the Spruce Fir, its top being composed of 
branches arranged circularly in whorls, and spreading 
horizontally” (Lam.); or as Dr. Roxsuren observes in his 
MSS., so as to resemble a dumb-waiter. At Liverpool, 
the tree which produced our specimens has already attain- 
ed a height of twenty feet. Bark smooth, brown ; the 
young branches clothed with rust-coloured down. Leaves 
collected at the extremities of the branchlets, spreading 
every way, and horizontally, from six inches to nearly a 
foot in length, on very short stalks, clothed with rusty- 
coloured down, obovate or inclining to wedge-shaped, acute 
at the extremity, attenuated below, the base cordate, where 
on each side of the midrib, is a gland raised on the upper 
surface, depressed beneath: the margins are quite entire, 
except that when very young, they have minute, glandular, 
deciduous, brown teeth; there too they are clothed with 
rusty-coloured pubescence, which soon disappears above, 
except upon the nerve, while beneath they are downy, and 
the down mostly ferruginous. The midrib sends off several 
oblique, parallel nerves. Spikes axillary, much shorter 
than the leaves, curved upwards, pubescent. Flowers small, 
but numerous, sterile and fertile ones on the same spike. 
Calyx pale green, shallow, 5-lobed, the lobes rather spread- 
ing; within are ten stamens, those opposite the lobes lower 
down, and each of them with an orange-coloured scale or 
eland, which is densely villous; the other five higher up in 
the sinuses of the lobes, and hence appearing longer. Fila- 
ments white, glabrous. Anthers ovate, yellow. Germen 
inferior, linear-oblong, attenuated upwards, slightly hairy. 
The Fruit, given at Tas. 3004, is drawn from what Mr. 
Parker and myself consider to be the same species, al 
inhabitant (native ?) of Demerara. Should it be otherwise, 
it may still serve to illustrate the character of this Genus. 
It is a dry drupe, of an oval or broadly oval or obovate 
form, compressed and almost winged at the sides and point, 
invested with a thin, dark brown skin. Nut of nearly the 
same shape, very hard, thick, marked with little spots and 
hollows, whence proceed the numerous fibres which covet 
the nut, one-celled. Seed attached to the upper end of the 
cell, brown, inverted, oblongo-acuminated. Albumen none- 
Embryo of the same shape as the seed. Radicle pointing 
to the hilum: Cotyledons large, fleshy, beautifully and 
spirally convoluted. 
I was much gratified by receiving in April of the present 
year, a flowering branch of the Terminauia Catapp4a, ae 
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