680 MONOECIA MONADELPHTA. CrotOH. 



are readily propagated by laying. In the Botanic garden 

 they liave not yet perfected their seed. 



2. C. bractlferum. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves linear-oblong, smooth, entire. Racemes 

 terminal, becoming lateral with an immense orbicular bracte 

 at the base. 



Codieeum silvestre. Rumph. Amh, iv. t. 27. 



A native of the Moluccas, 



3. C. dhecum. R. 



Leaves alternate, long-petioled, oblong, with the base 

 somewhat cordate. Racemes axillary, filiform, much longer 

 than the leaves. 



A native of the Malay Archipelago. 



4. C. bicolor. R. 



Shrubby. Branclips proliferous. Leaves oblong, ventri- 

 cose, entire, smooth above, sericeous with stellate scales un- 

 derneath. Racemes terminal, male flowers superior. 



A native of Sumatra. Flowering time in the Botanic gar- 

 den March and April. 



Trunk short, soon dividing into many spreading branches, 

 with their divisions proliferous, from three to six-cleft. Bark 

 of the old ligneous parts brownish and scabrous, that of the 

 young shoots ferruginous with small, brown, peltate, stellate 

 scales; the whole height of six-years-old plants about six feet. 

 Leaves alternate, petioled, oblong ventricose, somewhat cor- 

 date at the base, entire, rather obtuse, smooth, green above; 

 gray with numerous, small, sericeous scales underneath ; 

 from two to six inches long. Glands^ two small flat, green 

 ones at the base. Petioles from one to two inches hng, 

 round, brown with rust- coloured scales. Stipules setaceous. 

 Racemes terminal, solitary, longer than the leaves, scaly; the 

 J'emale flowers occupying the lower fourth ; and the male ones 

 the upper three fourths. Male calyx five-parted. Segments 



