Tas. 6507. 
BUCKLANDIA poputnea. 
Native of the Hastern Himalaya. 
Nat. Ord. HAMAMELIDER. 
Genus Buckiannpia, Br.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pi. vol. i. p. 669.) 
Bucktanpia populvea; arbor elata, ramulis articulatis, foliis alternis petiolatis 
late cordato-ovatis v. orbiculatis coriaceis palmatinerviis acuminatis integerrimis 
stipulisque sanguineo-coloratis junioribus 3-cuspidatis, petiolo terete elongato, 
stipulis 2-nis magnis oblique obovato-oblongis apice rotundatis crasse coriaceis 
nervosis ramulos juniores geniculatim inflexos pedunculosve amplectentibus, 
florum capitula globosa polygama v. unisexualia pedunculata pilosa, caly-— 
cibus confluentibus connatis, calycis tubo ovario adnato, in fl. ¢ obscuro, 
limbo (v. disco) carnosulo truncato repando-2-lobo, petalis numero incertis 4-5 
v. paucioribus lineari-spathulatis seepe in stamina mutatis carnosulis, zstivatione 
incurvis v. in fl. 9 sepius rudimentaria, staminibus in fl. ¢ 10-14 in 9 nullis, 
filamentis subulatis, antheris basifixis, ovario }-infero 2-loculari, stylis 2 | 
subulatis recurvis, capsula subglobosa, seminibus in loculis ad 6, superioribus 
osseis embryone 0, fertilibus superne longe alatis. 
B. populnea, Br. in Wall. Cat. n. 7414, et in Vermischte Schriften, vol. v. p. 374; 
Griff. in Asiat. Research. vol. xix. t. 13, 14; Hook. f. et Thoms. in Journ. 
Linn. Soe. vol. ii. p. 86 ; C. B. Clarke in Fl, Brit. Ind. vol. ii. p. 429. 
Liquidambar tricuspidata, Miguel FU. Ind. Bot. i, pars i. 1097, Suppl. 189, 346, t. 4, 
One of the most beautiful trees of the forests of the 
Sikkim Himalaya,-at elevations of 4000 to 6000 feet; also 
not unfrequent in the Khasia mountains, where, however, it 
does not attain the same stature, in so far as I have seen; 
and of the mountains of Sumatra. From the elevations at 
which it grows in the Himalaya, there is no prospect of 
Bucklandia being hardy in England, but as a greenhouse 
ornament no plant of the class can be more attractive. 
The trunk is cylindric and straight in well-grown trees, 
and, together with the oblong crown of evergreen foliage, 
attains 100 feet in height. The wood-vessels are annu-— 
late and the pith punctate as in the wood of Magnoliacew, 
which, with the remarkable stipules resembling those of 
Liriodendron, establish a resemblance between these other- 
auGcust Ist, 1880. 
