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BROWNLOWIA*# eláta. 
Lofty Brownlowia. 
POLYANDRIA MONOGY NI A. 
Nat. ord. Tit1acex Juss. (Introduction to the natural system of 
Botany, p. 40.) 
BROWNLOWIA Roxb.— Calyz monophyllus, campanulatus, limbo 
3-5-partito; lobis in sestivatione valvatis, quibusdam sæpiùs connatis. 
Petala 5, demüm revoluta, basi gynophori brevis turbinati inserta, ungue 
brevi concavo. Discus nullus. Stamina indefinita, distincta, apice gy- 
nophori inserta sub ovario; anthere 2-loculares: loculis basi sejunctis. 
Stamina sterilia 5, petaloidea, basi ovarii inserta, carpellis alterna. Ovarium 
5-loculare, ovulis utroque loculo binis, uno supra alterum appenso. Stylus 
subulatus. Stigma simplex. Pericarpia (ex Roxb.) 1-5, 1-locularia, 
2-valvia, monosperma, Radicula infera; cotyledones plane; albumen 0. 
——Arbor excelsa, foliis alternis, sublobatis, exstipulatis, pube stellatd, 
succo mucilagineo; paniculis terminalibus. — 
LE 
B. elata. Roxburgh’s plants of the coast of Coromandel, vol. 3. tab. 265. 
Dr. Wallich has favoured us with the following account of this remark- 
able plant : — 
** This noble tree was sent by Dr. nm in 1812, to Sir Abraham Hume, after 
whose lamented lady he had originally called it Humea; a name that had been ously 
applied to a different plant Sir James Edward Smith. It blossomed in ber 
1831 in the stove at Wormil ry, then measuring nine feet and a half in height, and 
the stem ten inches in circumference. The tree was in the most healthy and tiful 
state, some of the leaves measuring ten inches and a half in length by eight in breadth. 
Thus another beautiful object has been added to the list of noble es that flourish in 
the Garden of AS where I had the gratification of seeing, only a few months 
before, the finest specimen in Europe of Peonia pres covered with more than two 
thousand superb flowers, and where the Yulan forms a large tree, perfuming the air in 
its season with myriads of fragrant blossoms. 
~ Im dis Butano Garden, Calcutta, where this magnificent tree has only blossomed 
of late years, it forms, at all times, a beantiful spectacle, especially when covered with its 
numerous grand panicles of yellow flowers. : 
** It is indigenous in Chit , where, according to Dr. Roxt it grows to a 
large size, particularly in the part of that province; flowering in May, and ripening 
i i . 1 
* This majestic tree was dedicated by Dr. Roxburgh to the memory of the late Lady 
Brownlow, daughter of the Lady Amelia Hume, by whose premature decease Botany lost 
eno of ite bast and mon powuifel potronenten. 
