Elthamensis. Its leaves are short and broad, cordato- 
acuminate, the young ones delicate, and stipuled at the 
base. The flowers are collected into clusters, rarely soli- 
tary, almost sessile, and inserted in a sinus or notch at the 
margin of the leaves. 
Our specimens had only male flowers, and were kindly 
sent from the rich collection of the Liverpool Garden, by 
the Messrs. SHEPHERDs, who received them from the Canary 
isles. It is a native also of Madeira, and I have had fine 
dried specimens communicated to me from that island, by 
the Rev. Mr. Lows. 
It requires to be treated as a green-house plant. 
Fig. 1. A young leaf. Natural size-—2. Flowers. 3. Abortive Pistil— 
Magnified. 
