224 Mr. Hunter's Characters of two Species of Nauclea. 



Stipules two, lateral, lunate, two-lobed, horizontal. 



Peduncles axillary, solitary, compressed, spreading, a little 

 recurved, pubescent, twice the length of the petioles, 

 near the apex jointed and bracteated : after the seeds 

 have fallen, more recurved, and shar > like thorns. 



Bracteas six, lanceolate, verticelled, at the joint of the pe- 

 duncle. 



Calyx common none ; proper perianth continued above the 

 germ, funnel-form, pubescent without; five-cleft, with 

 segments lanceolate, erect. 



Cor. funnel-shaped ; tube twice as long as the calyx, di- 

 lated above, villous without; segments of the limb 

 ovate, obtuse. 



Stam. Filaments very small, in the throat of the tube. An- 

 thers lunulate, bifid at the base, incumbent. 



Pist. Germen ovate, easily split into two when the calyx is re- 

 moved. Stigma ovate. 



lound on the top of the hill at the same place. 



XVII. Obser- 



