pubescentes, obsolete nervosae, infra apiceni pedicelli, linearum trium circiter a tubo calycis distantia^ commissura utrinque porrecta 

 lateraliterque carinata insertte, deciduee, sestivatione valvatai paginisque interioribus, salvis earum basi et medio alabastrum foventibus 

 sibi invicem applicitis ct contiguis. Calyx tubulosus, limbo patente, quadrifido, corollaque sestivatione imbricatis ; tubus cylindraeeus 

 carnosus, crassus, obsolete sulcatus, bracteis pariim brevior, 2-pollicaris, persistens, sursCim leviter ampliatus, ad faueem stamina et petala 

 gerens ; laclnio' integerrima;, acutee, membranaceo-marginata}, longitudine tubura et se invicem tequantes, tenuiter nervosa, decidual ; 

 superior (i. e. lacinia; 2 vexillo subjecta; in unum coalita^) lanceolata, apice saepiils minutim bidenticulata, lateralibus oblongis dupl6 

 fer^ latior ; inferior oblongo-lanceolata. Corolla 5-petala, patentissima, propter duo petala inferiora nana et occulta quasi^deorsum 

 unilateralis, glabra. Petalum superius, seu Vexillum, maximum, coccineum, expansum, adscendens et partim recurvatum, tripollicare, 

 diametro bipoUicari, obcordatum, sinu lato, medi6 porrecto et crenulato, lobis rotundatis subrepandis ; deorsum canaliculatum sensim- 

 que attenuatum in unguem semipollicarem, sulcatum, supr^ puberulum ; disco albo versus sinum macuhi flava, magna, orbiculato-reni- 

 formi, radiatim venulosS, excepto margine superiore sinui contermino, cincta fascia atro-sanguinea ; lateribus conspersis lineolia brevibus, 

 parallelis, subgeminatis, sanguineis. Lateralia cuneiformia, vexiUum longitudine ogquans, extrorsum lineas octo lata, divaricata, demum' 

 reflexaj utrinque coccinca, disco obliquci venulosa, ad apicem obtusam supr^ notata ocello flavo, reniformi, magno ; deorsum sensim atte- 

 nuata in unguem semicylindricum, brevem. Inferiora 2 cuneato-subulata, acuta, humulosa, erecta, albicantia, basi adelphiee adpressa 

 lineas 2 longa, intra laciniam calycis inferiorem recondita. Stamina 10, diadelpha. Filamenta carnosa, lajvia, pallida • 9 deorsum' 

 connata in tubum rectum, quadrisulcatum, sesquipollicarem, fauci calycis supernfe insertum, posticfe fissum ; apice libera et longitudine 

 valdHna^qualia: 5 nempMongissima, adscendentia, teretia, adelphiam sequantia; 4 hisce alterna brevissima, subulata, vix bilinearia 

 basi latiora ; decbman liberum, poUicare, pedicello ovarii mox supra faueem calycis insertum. Anthers oblonga?, versatiles fusco virides' 

 filamentorum breviorum decimique liberi reliquis mult6 minores, subovatce ; omnes poUiniferse. Pistillum staminibus pLr^m brevius' 

 Ovarium compressum, falcatum, villosum, canescens, uniloculare, ovulis 4 ad 6, margini loculi recto insertis ; suffultum pedicello 

 tereti, supern^ libero, unguiculari, rufescente, infernfe per tubum calycis decurrente parietique ejus postico connato. Stylus filiformis 

 adscendens, sanguineus. Stigma parvum, convexum. Legumen immaturum oblongum, complanatum, coriaceum, ruberrimum dabrum' 

 rugosulum, 7-pollicare extrorsum pollices duos latum, acuminatum, deorsum attenuatum, basi acuta, margine altero recto tumido' 

 piano ; 5-spermum, sufFultum stipite bipoUicari, ultra medium vaginato calycis tubo truncato, fere immutato. Maturum baud ^idi. 



The first notice 1 had of the existence of this magnificent tree was at Rangoon, in August 1826 ; when Mr Crawfurd 



favoured me w.th some dried unopened flowers and a leaf of it, together with the following account, takenTom 



a s atement of his ...t to Martaban, contained in the Calcutta Government Gazette, of the 29th May of that year 



"Around the lull" at Kogun, on the Saluen river in the province of Martaban, '« is a garden bel^^^^^^^^ 



a neighbcHirmg monastery m no very good order. The only plant in it, which struck us a! remarkable w!s a 



ree about twenty feet high abounding in long and pendulous panicles of rich geranium-coloured W;sroms 



and long and elegant, lance-shaped leaves. It is of the class and order of Diadelphia Decandria a3 tootauTf i 



n object to be passed unobserved even by the uninitiated in botany. Handfufs of the flowers ^ef" 



offerings in the cave before the images of Buddha." ^ 



Captain Kitchens of the Honourable Company's Madras military service, was good enoujrh to ^ive mP -, 

 at the time, that he would if possible obtain for me against mv arrival on tbp Vf - ^ ^'"""^''^ 



speciniens; winch he in part U^ned. In the rnkJ^ ncZ Li^^^^^^^ Z^ 



while we stayed there, nor during our progress on the IriwaddJ onuUl .v ,.'' "^""^^^ ^l f^^^ ' *^"<^ "either 



-vere daily Lifested in their inZtJ; "ri;;; Ir ' ""^ """""'""^ ''"="="^'""^ "' "^ '"S'^ <='--, which 



The subject of these pages is so i„,e>-esti„s: that I venture to make one more extract resBectin. it f 

 ^UiSl l^n^re: t^^ — '" -- -^- - -r t^^^;: 'Z Z 



£;:::n:rir-L^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 



rhrCL^-ltS;:—^^ .een communicated to metM. Cr^l^rS 



were two individuals of tint tree here ;1 W st ah Xtv frtT >^''^T '' T ™ ' ^'^^PV^^'^- There 

 feet, stood close to the euve ; the other wrs^a^lef tculh, ^ ' M ''' '"''^- "' ""■" *="' ''"''' *« '>^' "' ^'- 

 and stones. They were nroLelv ornLT f t ' . 7 ^ '' "1™'"'' '"""'"''"' "^ ™'". 'ined with bricks 



superb objects. uL;„r;tt ZT f .: E^ S ^T "' ''''' ^ ''»—o-ed blossoms, for^' " 

 elegance in any part of the world. I call this tree Iw^ T^' ""' ™' ^"•'«^-'' ■» magnificence and 

 l.cople here nor at Martaban could give me anv ZiSZT t !' ^"™''' "'■""' '" ^'°*''- Neither the 



that it belongs to the forests of this p^vfn e -^^1 !lrr 1 T" " " "' *^™™"' ' ''"* *^'''' '^ «'* ^onbt 

 are carried daily ,. offeriugs to the hX i„ the adio ^"•«"'^'^' '=''^»/« « di^t^-ee, with its blossoms, which 



Jonesia A.oe« i„ ful, blossom, inferij^ bea * ^^ t ,f T' T " '■"" "■"" ""-"^'""^ '"''"id-Is of 

 is not a little remarkable, that the pries,, nte^ pa s sho d avr" '' V !" ,"™"' >""^ ^'''""- /--)• I' 



- - - — 'o -r o4ts of ^^^^:^:^':^rtizi^:^::^-^ 



