DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME NEW OR RARE TREES. 353 



y^ iuch. Brauchlets and undersides of leaves downy. Flowers dioeci- 

 ous, small, numerous, sessile, white, turning black in drying, solitary 

 or in fascicles. Male flowers ^ inch, with a long tube to the corolla. 

 Calyx and corolla 4-lobed. Stamens 16 to 20, of unequal length and 

 connected at their bases. Female flowers J inch long. Calyx cleft 

 half way, downy, 4-lobed, not accrescent in fruit. Corolla 4-lobed, 

 white, glabrous. Ovary 4-Gelled, with one ovule in each cell. Stami- 

 nodes about 4. Stigmas 4, black. Fruit globose, succulent, green, 

 smooth, about g to | inch in diameter, containing 3 to 4 seeds. Albu- 

 men equable (?). 



A small tree of the evergreen forests at elevations about 2,000 feet, 

 near Merchiston estate. Height 30 feet. Diameter 10 inches. Flowers 

 in March and April. Fruit in June. 



Bark J inch thick, green and black-mottled. No heart. Wood 

 hard, dull greyish-brown tinged with purple, with small patches of black 

 near the centre, coarse and rough. Medullary rays extremely fine. Pores 

 very small, arranged in radial lines. Annual rings none. Weight 54 

 lbs. per cubic f jot. P.=579. 

 Description of Plate VI — 



1. Flowering branch with flowers — female tree. 



2. Part of female branch. 

 '6. Part of male branch. 



4. Ovary X 4. 



5. Stamens X 4. 



6. Fruit — natural size. 



7. Section of fruit — natural size. 



