MR. G. D. HAVILAND: REVISION OF THE NAUCLEES. 3 
referred was No. 53 of his ‘ Flora of Ceylon’; Hermann’s drawing, 
on which this plant depends, is now in the British Museum, and 
undoubtedly represents Sarcocephalus cordatus. The second 
plant to which he referred is the Katu Tsiaca of Rheede’s 
‘Hortus Malabaricus’ (1682), iii. 29, t. 33; this plant I have 
no doubt is S. missionis, but it has generally been referred 
to Anthocephalus indicus, and Wight and Arnott, Prod. 392, 
refer it to Nauclea purpurea. The figure of the stigma and the 
description of the fruit, however, quite exclude N. purpurea, 
whilst the figure of the leaves quite excludes Anthocephalus 
indicus; the figure of the calyx-lobes shows them to be per- 
sistent and obtuse as in Sarcocephalus missionis. Specimens of 
S. missionis from Wight’s herbarium are labelled Nauclea 
purpurea. 
In the ‘Species Plantarum,’ ed. 2, Cephalanthus occidentalis 
is left under Tetrandria; but Cephalanthus orientalis is called 
Nauclea orientalis and classed under Pentandria; the same 
references to the * Flora Zeylanica’ and the * Hortus Malabaricus ’ 
are given, and a reference to a third plant, the Bancalus of 
Rumph. Amb. (1750), iii. 81, is added. This Bancalus is also 
probably a Sarcocephalus, judging by the description of the fruit ; 
it is peculiar in having some of the peduncles axillary and some 
terminal: the only specimen which I have seen with this pecu- 
liarity is from the Philippines (Vidal, n. 797), where the name 
Bancal is in use for species of Nauclea and Sarcocephalus. It is 
a Sarcocephalus; I have referred it to S. Junghuhnii, but it will 
possibly prove to be distinct. The young fruit closely resemble 
those in the figure, but the leaves are much broader. 
Thus it would seem that Linnzus founded his Nauclea orientalis 
on two species of Sarcocephalus : the firstis Sarcocephalus cordatus 
and the second Sarcocephalus missionis; and in the 2nd edition of 
the Species Plantarum’ he included a third species which was also 
almost certainly a species of Sarcocephalus. He, however, says in 
Sp. Pl. ed. 1, “ Capsulas habet binas monospermas ;" and Smith 
in * Rees's Cyclopedia’ states that the name Nauclea possibly 
comes from “Naus ” a ship and “Kleio” to enclose, in reference 
to the hull-shaped half-capsule, but the writer admits this to be 
a mere guess. Fora time all the Asiatic species of the Tribe 
were included in the genus Wauclea; so that when Cephalanthus 
occidentalis was found in Asia, it was renamed Nauclea tetrandra 
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