630 MONOECIA POLYANDRIA. AleUlUes. 



Trunk erect. Branches numerous, drooping, spreading 

 and ascending. Bark smooth, olive-coloured ; young shoots 

 covered with much brownish stellate pubescence. Leaves 

 about the extremities of the branches, approximate, petioled, 

 cordate ; margins frequently scollop-toothed, or even three 

 or five-lobed ; when young both sides covered with the same 

 stellate pubescence that is found in the young shoots, but 

 whiter, when full-grown pretty smooth, from four to eight 

 inches long, and from three to six broad. Petioles round, as 

 long as the leaves; two hemispheric glands at the apex as 

 in several of the Crofows. Stipules none. Panicles termi- 

 nal, erect, oval, clothed, as are all the other young* parts with 

 harsh, hairy, stellate pubescence; ^oice?*s numerous, small, 

 white; branches caducous. Male flowers terminal, small, 

 and most numerous. Calyx one-leaved, generally two-cleft ; 

 divisions erect, sometimes a little sub-divided, falling. Pe- 

 tals five, oblong, tapering towards the base. Nectary^ five 

 small yellow glands between the insertion of the petals. Fi- 

 laments about twenty, inserted into a hemispheric receptacle, 

 short, thick, woolly. Anthers, two pits on the inside of the 

 apex of each filament. Female flowers sessile, in the di- 

 visions of the panicle. Calyx, corol and nectary as in the 

 male. Germ superior, single, oval, compressed, covered with 

 stellate hairs, two-celled, each cell containing a single ovu- 

 lum pendulous from the top of the partition. Styles two, 

 each two-cleft to its base. Stigma incurved, acute. Drupe 

 two-celled, fleshy, roundish, a little compressed, pretty 

 smooth, somewhat pointed, slightly marked on the sides with 

 four sutures, when ripe olive-coloured ; the greatest diameter 

 about two inches and half; cells lined with a firm, smooth, 

 brown integument ; it frequently happens that there is only 

 one nut in the drupe, the form and size is then different. 

 JsTuts two, one in each cell, thick, and very hard, dark co- 

 loured, irregularly furrowed, particularly on the exterior 

 side covered with a firm, fleshy substance; which is white on 

 the outside and marked with green veins within, next to the 



