drawing has been made from it, a size which can alone do 
justice to such a subject. The pages of this magazine are of 
course quite inadequate to receive such a figure: and a flower- 
bud, and two expanded flowers, together with a small portion 
of a leaf, which was nearly three feet long, are all we shall 
attempt to portray. These flowers, of the natural size, do so 
well represent their nature and structure (the minute inferior 
petals, resembling two small curved scales, being the only 
part concealed from view), that we shall, rather than enter into 
a full description (faithfully given in the work above quoted), 
introduce an extract from Dr. Wallich’s history of the discovery 
of this Prince of Flowering-Trees : —“ The first notice I had of 
the existence of this magnificent tree,” says that enthusiastic 
botanist, “was at Rangoon, in August, 1826, when Mr. Craw- 
ford favoured me with some dried unopened flowers, and a 
leaf of it, with the information that he had gathered it in a 
garden, belonging to a monastery, around the hill at Kogun, 
on the Saluen river, in the province of Martaban, where they 
appeared too beautiful an object to be passed unobserved even 
by the uninitiated in botany. Handfulls of the flowers were 
found as offerings in the caves before the images of Buddha.” 
In March, 1827, Dr. Wallich accompanied the British Envoy 
to Ava, and in his Official Report of a Journey on the River 
Saluen, in order to examine the site and capabilities of the Teak 
forests in that direction, he thus writes: “In about an hour I 
came to a decayed Kioum (a sort of monastery), close to the 
large hill of Kogun, distant about two miles from the right bank 
of the river, and twenty-seven from the town of Martaban. I 
had been prepared to find a tree growing here, of which an 
account had before been communicated to me by Mr. Crawfurd, 
and which I had been fortunate enough to meet with for the 
first time a week ago at Martaban; nor was I disappointed. 
There were two individuals of this tree here: the largest, about 
forty feet high, with a girth, at three feet above the base, of six 
feet, stood close to the cave: the other was smaller, and over- 
hung an old Square reservoir of water, lined with bricks and 
stones. They were profusely ornamented with pendulous racemes 
of large vermillion-coloured blossoms, forming superb objects, 
unequalled m the Flora of the East Indies, and, I presume, not 
surpassed in magnificence and elegance in any part of the world. 
The Birman name 18 Zoha. Neither the people here nor at 
Martaban could give me any distinct account of its native place 
of growth ; but there is little doubt that it belongs to the forests 
of this province. The ground was strewed, even at a distance, 
with its blossoms, which are carried daily as offerings to the 
mages in the adjoining caves. Round the spot were numerous 
