TURRAA lobata. 
Lobed Turrea. 
MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. MELIACEE. 
TURRAIA, L. Calyx 5-dentatus, raro in (in T. pumila) 5-partitus, 
vel (in T. tetramerá) 4-dentatus. Corolla 5-petala, petalis ab imá basi 
demüm patentibus. Tubus stamineus a corollà liber, intüs ad apicem an- 
theras 10, vel (in T. tetramerá) 8, sessiles vel brevissimé stipitatas gerens, 
margine (quandoque reflexo) plerúmque in dentes lacinulasve forme varise 
diviso. Tubus interior nullus ; sed post anthesin annulus brevissimus duplex, 
exterior e basibus petalorum, interior e basi tubi staminei, persistentibus, 
basin ovarii cingens. Ovarium 5-, 10-, 20-loculare, loculis sepalis (dum 
numero zequalibus) oppositis, 2-ovulatis. Stylus tubi staminei longitudine 
vel longior. Stigma exsertum discoideum, styli dilatationem form varie ter- 
minans. Capsula 5-vel pluri-locularis, loculis 1-2-spermis. Semina infra 
apicem suspensa, arillata. Arbores fruticesve, foliis simplicibus integerrimis 
raro (in T. heterophylla) obtuse lobatis, vel (in T. pumila) sinuato-dentatis. 
Flores (pedunculo communi abbreviato) fasciculati, pedicellati, vel rard (in 
T. tetramerä) sessiles. Bennett in Horsfield's Plant. Jav. p. 180. 
T. lobata ; foliis rhombeis apice trilobis dentatisque subtüs pubescentibus, 
floribus solitariis axillaribus, calycibus 5-dentatis, petalis spathulatis 
columns longitudine, columná viginti-dentatä intüs hirsutà laciniis 
subulatis, antheris 10 exsertis, ovario 5-loculari. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 
1843. misc. 86. 
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This very rare stove plant flowered at Chiswick House 
last July. His Grace the Duke of Devonshire received it 
from Mr. Whitfield, who collected it in Sierra Leone. The 
flowers have much the appearance of those of the orange, but 
have no smell. 
. The nearest affinity of this plant is evidently with the T. 
heterophylla of Smith, a species from the same country, and 
apparently very like it. But Mr. Bennett, in his revision of 
the genus in Horsfield’s Plante Javanice, p. 184, places 7. 
heterophylla in a section having from ten to twenty cells to the 
