rica, and an equal number which belong to India, Japan, or 
China. ; 
Branches round, brown, roughish to the feel: young 
ones villous, with a thick reddish pith. Leaves elliptically 
ovate, pointed, older ones cordate at the base, obsoletely 
downy above and shining, coated underneath with a short 
thick downy nap, and hence opaque and pale, 5-6 inches 
long, about 3 broad, with many slanting nerves, deciduous: 
petiole round, villous, about an inch long. Stipules mem- 
branous, an inch and an half long, pale villous, of nearly 
the same shape as the leaflets of the calyx, caducous. Pe- 
duncles oneflowered, terminal, shorter than the petiole, 
thick, finely dotted, marked with a circular scar a little 
below the flower. Flower more than 4 inches in diame- 
ter, of yellowish buff colour with a slight glaucous tint, 
upright, very faintly odorous. Calyx more than twice 
shorter than the petals; leaflets 3, linearly oblong, with a 
short point, nearly of the same colour as the petals, but 
tenderer and caducous. Petals 6, flaccid, cuneately obo- 
vate, with a short point, alternate ones rather narrower, and 
greener on the outside. 
There had been doubts, whether the Asiatic species 
would prove to be true Macnoni, when their fruit was ex- 
amined. The examination has been lately made by Mr. 
Brown, who finds that the fruit of Asiatic species, in the. 
Banksian Herbarium, does not differ essentially from the 
fruit of the American ones. 
