too small, and too entire. They are generally, especially when full grown, lobed, and of 
the size of the principal leaf in the accompanying figure. 
“ The following is Dr. Roxburgh's description of this plant : — 
** * Trunk straight, and of great size ; that of full-grown trees in their native soil about 
15 feet in circumference 4 feet above the root. Branches numerous, spreading, forming a 
very large, ovate, shady head. Bark ofthe trunk and large branches ash-coloured, and 
smooth; of the young parts clothed with a little hoary pubescence. Leaves alternate, 
petiolate, 3-7-nerved, cordate; margins entire, one of the lobes (into which the base is 
divided) generally larger than the other ; upper surface smooth, hoary underneath ; from 
4 to 12 inches long, and the breadth from 3 to 8. Petiole swelled at each end, the rest 
round, and a little hoary; about } or } the length of the leaves. Panicles: terminal, 
large, ovate, very ramous, with the ramifications rather hoary. Flowers numerous, pedi- 
celled, collected in little fascicles ; colour bright yellow ; not fragrant, but pretty large, and 
shewy. Calyx inferior, 1-leaved, campanulate ; border 4- or 5-toothed, hoary on the out- 
side, smooth within. Corol.: petals 5, in the bud contorted, when expanded obliquely 
oblong, yellow, spreading. Nectary or abortive filaments 5, linear, shorter than the 
stamina, and standing between them and the germ, opposite to its 5 grooves. Filaments 
numerous, slender, shorter than the petals, most slightly, or rather scarce, united at the 
base, and inserted round the apex of a short turbinate receptacle. Germ superior, and 
elevated on the turbinate receptacle, considerably above the insertion of the calyx and corol, 
very hairy, conspicuously and deeply 5-lobed, 5-celled, each cell containing two ovules, 
attached by their middle to the inner angle of the cell. Style single, 5-furrowed, length 
of the filaments. Stigma simple. Capsules from 1 to 5; 2 or 3 most frequent, round, 
oval, about an inch and a half in diameter, and one inch thick ; of a firm, fibrous, woody 
texture; surface gray, or ash-coloured, and somewhat downy, 1-celled, 2-valved. Seed 1, 
rarely 2, conform to the capsule. Integuments 2 ; exterior light brown, and friable: in- 
terior membranaceous. Albumen none. Embryo conform to the seed, erect. Cotyledons 2, 
nearly equal, amygdaline. Plumula small, villous, 2-lobed. Radicle oblong, inferior.’”’ 
. A stove plant, growing freely in a mixture of peat and loam, and flower- 
ing in September. We presume it is to be increased by ripened cuttings, 
struck in sand under a hand-glass. 
This genus is not taken up in the learned M. De Candolle's Prodromus; 
and in Bartling's valuable work on Natural Orders it is placed among the 
genera the affinity of which is uncertain. It appears from the foregoing 
account to be undoubtedly Tiliaceous, and closely related to Christiana, as 
far as can be judged from the little that is known of that genus. Its principal 
points of difference from the most genuine forms of Tiliacew, are the absence 
of a disk round the base of the stamens, its distinct pericarpia, and its want 
of albumen: but the disk may be supposed to be connate with the gyno- 
phorus, which is very much thickened at the base of the stamens; the 
distinct pericarpia are found in Christiana ; and albumen can scarcely be con- 
sidered an essential character of the order. Byttneriacew, the only other 
plants with which Brownlowia can be compared, are chiefly different in their . 
monadelphous stamens ; but this character seems to be so important as to 
destroy the affinity that would otherwise be indicated by the sterile petaloid 
stamens of the genus before us. JL 
