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acute, polished green above and glaucous beneath. The 
flowers are very numerous, but insignificant in size, 
about two lines long, nearly white, and of distinct sexes, 
the females being few and situated above the males, at 
the ends of the branchlets. The fruit is a three-cornered 
capsule, the carpels of which, while hanging on the tree, 
split in two at maturity with an elastic expansion, 
liberating the seeds with a jerk. The latter are about 
the size of a small nutmeg, and nearly of the same shape, 
but more rhomboidal. Fish are particularly fond of the 
seed. As the capsules burst, their contents drop on the 
water where the trees are on the banks and overhang 
the river, and the surface is immediately broken by 
cartaback rushing after them. The Indians employ 
the fruit while in season to bait their fishing lines. 
The fruit, however, is said to be poisonous to some ani- 
mals. Having doubts of the identity of the species, and 
being anxious to have the question definitely settled, I sent 
a set of each of the two forms I obtained to Kew to be 
matched. The following note by Professor Oliver, the 
keeper of the Herbarium, was received from Sir Joseph 
Hooker in reply : — (( With regard to the Heveas sent by 
Mr. Jenman (No. 621 and 725), I have examined them 
carefully and believe they both belong to the same species, 
and that they are identical specifically with H. pauciflora, 
Mull. Org. {Siphonia pauciflora, Bth.) and H. Spruceana 
Mull. Org. {Siphonia spruceana Bth). Of these two names 
the latter should be adopted — the type specimens 
of H. pauciflora being evidently abnormal as to the 
infloresence, and the plant flowering in copious pan- 
icles. 
