19 
* COLEA floribunda. 
The Yellow Rei rei. 
Sei SS 
DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Nat. ord. B1GNONIACER, § CRESCENTINA. 
COLEA Byer. Involucrum sub-flore nullum. Calyx subcampanulatus, 
5-dentatus. Corolla infundibuliformis, tubo oblongo superné pariim ampliato ; 
limbi patentis 5-partiti lobis subeequalibus. Stylus (filiformis. Stigma bila- 
mellatum). Fructus carnosus, oblongus, stylo apiculatus, 2 locularis. 
Frutices v. arbusculee glabre, foliis oppositis v. verticillatis, impari-pinnatis, 
2-00-foliolatis, cum v. absque stipulis ; floribus lateralibus fasciculatis vel spi- 
catis, vel terminalibus paniculatis. . Meisner genera, p. 301. 
C. floribunda ; foliis verticillatis 8-jugis, foliolis oblongo-lanceolatis acumi- 
natis, fasciculis florum multifloris subsessilibus. 
C. floribunda. Bojer hort. maurit. p. 220. 
Caulis ultra orgyalis, apice foliosus, simplex, in ligno vetusto floridus. 
Folia magna, pinnata cum impari, suboctojuga, verticillata; foliolis oblongo- 
lanceolatis, acuminatis, coriaceis, glabris, petiolulatis, sex pollices et ultra 
longis; terminali nunc bilobo. Flores in umbellas subsessiles supraazillares 
dispositi, pedicellati. Calyx campanulatus, obsoletd 5.dentatus, leviter pu- 
bescens, tubo corolle multd brevior. Corolla feré pollicaris, infundibularis, 
ochracea, limbo patulo, subregulari, sub sinubus elevato; laciniis emarginatis 
ciliatis ; tubo intus villoso. Stamina 5, tubo corolle duplo breviora ; dorsale 
sterile, fertilibus brevius ; par proximum incurvum, antheris approximatis pa- 
rallelis ; proximum omnino simile sed longius. Antheree uniloculares, longitu- 
dinater dehiscentes : loculo altero obsoleto ad basin fertilis. Ovarium an- 
nulo carnoso 5-lobo insertum, oblongum, cum stylo filiformi continuum ; stigma 
bilamellatum. 
A native of Madagascar, where, according to Bojer, it 
inhabits the forests all along the east coast, around Foul Point 
and in Anton Gil bay. It is a shrub, called by the Malgaches 
he Rei. 
It flowered in August last, probably for the first time in 
Europe, in the collection of his Grace the Duke of Northum- 
berland at Syon. It is a stove plant with a stately aspect, and 
singular habit, in consequence of the stem, which is seven or 
eight feet high, being perfectly simple, covered with the noble 
pinnated leaves at the upper end only, and bearing the flowers 
on the old wood from just above the places whence the leaves 
of previous years had fallen. ‘The flowers are of a bright 
* Named after General Sir G. Lowry Cole, Governor of the Mauritius. 
April, 1841, H 
