61 BERRIA AMMONILLA. 
Stem. Filaments numerous, half the length of the petals, slightly 
united at the base. Anthers incumbent, 2-lobed. 
Pistil. Germ above, hairy, ovate. Style short. Stigma 3-cleft. 
Capsule (6-winged,) round, 3-celled, 3-valved, opening from the 
apex ; each valve ornamented with two, large, oblong, mem- 
branaceous, reticulated, expanding, villous wings. 
Seeds from one to four in each cell, irregularly ovate, clothed with 
much stiff, light brown, short hair, and affixed to the central 
receptacle near its apex. 
BROWNLOWIA.* 
POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER, MALVACE Juss. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Calyx simple, 5-parted. Corol 5-petalled. Nectary 5-leaved, be- 
tween the numerous stamina and germ. Style and Stigma simple. 
Capsules (from one to five,) one-celled, 2-valved. Seeds one or 
two. L£mbryo erect, without albumen. 
265. BROWNLOWIA ELATA. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Maws-jaat, the vernacular name in Chittagong, where the tree is 
indigenous, and grows to a very great size, particularly in the back 
part of that province. Flowering time the month of May, and the 
seed ripen in October. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Trunk straight, and of great size ; that of full grown trees in their 
native soil about fifteen feet in circumference, four feet above 
the root. Branches numerous, spreading, forming a very large, 
ovate, shady head. Bark of the trunk and large branches ash- 
coloured and smooth, of the young parts clothed with a little 
hoary pubescence. 
Leaves alternate, petioled, 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 $ to 8. 
Petioles swelled at each end, the rest round, and a little hoary ; 
about one-third, or one-fourth the length of the leaves. 
Panicles terminal, large, ovate, very ramous; with the ramifications 
rather hoary. 
Flowers numerous, pedicelled, collected in little fascicules; colour 
bright yellow, not fragrant, but pretty large and showy. 
Calyx inferior, one-leaved, campanulate ; border 4 or 5-toothed, 
hoary on the outside, smooth within. 
Corol: Petals five, in the bud contorted, when expanded obliquely- 
oblong, yellow, spreading. 
Nectary or abortive filaments 5, linear, shorter than the stamina, 
* This truly majestic tree constitutes a new genus, which is dedicated to the memory 
of the late Lady Brownlow, daughter of Lady Amelia Hume, by whose premature decease 
botany has lost one of her best and most powerful patronesses. 
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and stand between them and the germ, opposite to its five 
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 consider- 
ably above the insertion of the calyx and corol, very hairy, 
conspicuously and deeply 5-lobed, 5-celled ; each 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 grey, or ash-coloured, and 
somewhat downy, one-celled, 2-valved. 
Seed one, rarely two; conform to the capsule. Integuments two ; 
exterior light brown, and friable ; cnterior membranaceous. 
Albumen none. 
Embryo conform to the seed, erect. Cotyledons two, nearly equal, 
amygdaline. Plumula small, villous, 2-lobed. Radicle oblong, 
inferior. 
266. MAGNOLIA PTEROCARPA. 
Leaves oblong, with tapering base, entire. 
solitary. Calyx of several deciduous spathes. 
(the exterior green on the outside.) 
Flowers terminal, 
Corol 9-petalled, 
Doolee Champa the vernacular name in Silhet. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
A middling sized, very ramous tree, a native of the hilly coun- 
tries in the vicinity of Silhet and Chittagong, where it blossoms in 
April and May, and perfumes the air to a considerable distance 
with the fragrance of its fine large flowers ; seed ripen in October 
and November. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Young Shoots strongly marked with the annular marks left by the 
stipules, otherwise smooth. 
Leaves alternate, oblong, taper most to the base, entire, hard, and 
void of pubescence, but glaucous, particularly underneath, 
obtuse, ribbed with large, simple, expanding veins, and 
between them the small ones are beautifully reticulate; length 
6-18 inches, by 3-9 broad. 
Stipules solitary, sheathing, attached on one side to the edges of 
the petioles of the next inferior leaf. 
Flowers terminal, solitary, large, as in Miller's figure of Magnolia 
grandiflora, and like them, white and fragrant. 
Calyx, what I consider to be it, or an nvolucre, are the many spathes 
which cover the flower bud, and drop off in succession as it 
swells, leaving strong, annular marks behind. 
Petals nine, oval, thick, firm and fleshy, with thin waved edges ; 
the exterior 8 or 4 green on the outside, all the rest white, 
Stamina numerous, imbricated, linear, incurved; on each side a 
polliniferous groove, to within a very little of the base. 
Germs numerous, imbricated upward into a cone; base swelled, 
one-celled, and contains two ovules, attached to the inner 
angle, or side of the cell; upper part (Style) free, ensiform, 
and villous. Stigma simple. 
