510 PF.NTANDHIA MONOGYNIA. NdUcleCt. 



Trunk straight up through the branc lies to the very top of 

 the tree. Baric of a light greenish ash-colour. Branches 

 spreading, horizontal, forming a broad ovate, shady head, ge- 

 neral height of our six years old trees from fifteen to twenty 

 feet. Leaves opposite, short- pelioled ; from round cordate to . 

 ovate-cordate, obtuse, entire, coriaceous, smooth ; marked 

 with prominent, alternate veins; the upper surface shining 

 dark green, the under one paler; length from three to nine 

 inches, and from two to eight broad. Petioles roundish, 

 smooth, about an inch or an inch and a half long. Stipules 

 interfoliaceous, large, roundish, or obovate, apex rounded, 

 marked with numerous, fine veins, caducous. Peduncles ter- 

 minal, solitary, and generally in the small lateral branchlets, 

 drooping, each supporting a large, beautiful, globular, aggre- 

 gate head of very fragrant bright yellow florets. Bracte a 

 small, irregularly four-toothed, withering ring round the pe- 

 duncles, near the base, within the stipules. Calyx, common 

 none, or very obscure ; proper deeply cut into four or five, 

 fleshy, clavate, permanent segments, which thicken as the fruit 

 advances in size. Florets funnel-shaped, lour or five-parted. 

 Divisions obovate, obtuse. Filaments very short, from the 

 mouth of the tube just under the fissures of its border. An- 

 thers cordate. Germ inferior, completely united to each other, 

 their whole length two-celled, each containing many imbricat- 

 ed seeds attached to a receptacle rising from the partition 

 a little above its middle. Style much longer than the corol. 

 Stigma oblong, apex obscurely two-lobed, of a beautiful 

 pearl colour. Fruit aggregate, size of a small apple, round, 

 rough, with the obtuse, fleshy permanent portions of the di- 

 visions of the calyces ; the partial seed vessels thereof are 

 firmly united, angular, inversely conical, two-celled, with a 

 few oblong, imbricated seeds in each, besides a number of 

 small, brown scales, which are the abortive ovula, as may be 

 seen by the structure of the germ as well as by their being 

 attached to the same central receptacle; the full grown seeds 

 are crowned with a greenish, fleshy gland, to which the uni- 



