Tas. 4251. 
TALAUMA Canpo.uun. 
De Candolle’s Talauma. 
Nat. Ord. MaGnoniaceE®.—PoLyanpRIA PoLyGynia. 
Gen. Char. Petala 9-15, ordine ternario serialia. Stamina numerosa, antheris 
anticis. Ovaria plura, coadunata, biovulata. Fructus coadunatione unicus, 
strobiliformis, lignosus, irregulariter dehiscens, seminibus 1-2 pendulis, in foveo- 
lis receptaculi centralis cylindraceo-elongati dehiscentia liberi. BU. 
TaLAuUMA Candollii ; foliis oblongis utrinque acuminatis glabris, floribus 9-12 
petalis exterioribus calycinis reliquis triente brevioribus. BU. 
TaLauma Candollii. Bl. ix Batav. Verhand. p. 147-149. Bydr.v.1.p.9. Fl. 
Jav. Magnol. p. 32. t.9 et 12 A. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t.1709. 
MAGNotta odoratissima. Reinw. ined. 
MaGnorta pumila. Spreng. Syst. Veget. 0. 4. p. 2. excl. syn. (fide Bl.) 
A very charming shrué, whether its foliage, or its flowers, or 
the fragrance of the blossoms, be considered. It is a native 
of Java, and therefore requires the heat of a stove, where it 
flowers annually about the month of June. When in perfection, 
the flowers are a cream-colour, and more or less connivent, 
but they soon become tawny and more expanded. ‘The fruit of 
the natural size is given from Blume, at fig. 3. 
Derscr. A shrub, as cultivated in pots, four to five feet 
high; in its native country attaining a height of fifteen feet. 
Leaves alternate, from seven inches to a foot long, according to 
lume, ovate-oblong, petiolate, acuminate at both extremities, 
entire, dark green above, paler beneath. Peduncle terminal, 
solitary, arched, single-flowered. FVower drooping, large, hand- 
Some, cream-coloured, fragrant. Peta/s, in our plant, nine, of 
which the three outer are more patent, and often slightly tinged 
with green, all of them oblong-ovate, acute. Stamens several, 
Shorter than the pistils. Anther-cells forming a line at the inner 
edge of the acute filament. Pistils numerous: ovary linear- 
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