CLASS VI. 
-HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
URANIA., Schreb. gen. n. 539. 
Calyx acommon spathe. Corol six-petalled. Germ 4 
three-celled. Ovula numerous ; aifachment septal. Cap- 
sule inferior, three-celled, hace caleot Seeds in two rows, 
axilled, Embryo centripetal, and furnished with a peris- 
perm, 
U. speciosa. Willd. 2.p.7. _. 
> Rayenalia madagascariensis, - Sonner. it. ind. 208. t 
124-5 and 6. 
In 1802 three plants of this elegant tree were brought 
from. the Island of Mauritius by Capt. Tennant to the 
Botanic Garden at Calcutta. They were planted in dif. 
ferent soils, and situations... That which was in a very 
moist place, and in a rich brownish black soil, throve 
more Juxuriantly than the other two, though in a soil 
equally rich but lighter coloured, much higher and drier; 
the former flowered for the first time about the close of _ 
1806 and again in September, 1807, when the accompany- __ 
ing and following description was made. The seeds 
of the first crop of flowers ripened in November, 1807. 
Trunk of the tree now in flower, simple, and straight, 
eighteen inches to the leaves, and thirty-six in circum- 
ference, round, and marked with the circularimpressions =~ 
