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Streatham m Surrey, fix pretty large plants, with dif- 
ferently-variegated leaves, now in full flower, three 
males, and three females, growing in pairs, and a 
male growing by itfelf, in another part of the garden. 
The female is that which has been deferib’d by au- 
thors, and I do not know that any one has deferib’d, 
or even taken the leaft notice of, the male. 
The male flower, as well as the female, is mono- 
petalous, cut deeply into four fegments, with a very 
imall empalement, divided alfo into four parts. It 
has four confpicuous chives, which fuftain yellow 
fummits, in which is great plenty of farina ; but has 
nothing like either ftyle, or ovary. 
The female flower has, befide its eflential part, the 
ovary, four fhort filaments, which have hitherto been 
taken for chives, or male organs of generation ; but 
as I cannot perceive that they bear any fummit, or 
yield any jarina or fecundating duft, I rather believe, 
that they are tubes, which affift in conveying the im- 
pregnating particles to the feeds ; which opinion feems, 
in feme meafure, confirm’d by the germ being placed 
in the lower-part of the feed, according to CaTal- 
pinus, who ranges this tree among thofe quarum Je- 
mina cor in inferiore parti h<ahent. 
Ray lias placed it among the arbores fore fruEiui 
contiguo: But, if my obfervation is juft, it ought to 
be remov’d to the arbores fore a frudlu remoto. 
It muft alfo be remov’d from the tetrandria tetra- 
gynia of Linnaeus to the dicecia tetrandria. But if 
the four filaments in the female flower fliould be 
found, on a more accurate obfervation by better eyes 
than I am blefs’d with, to be real chives, and to con- 
tain a fecundating duft , it will belong to the poly- 
gamies. » But 
