Millingtonia. DIANDRIA MONOGYNTA, — 103 
cl 
therefore restored that respectable name to the system, under 
a different dress, by giving it to the two trees which at pre- 
sent constitute this strongly marked family, and which, I am 
inclined to think, have not, until now, been described. . 
1. M. simplicifolid. R 
- Leaves alternate, — tinodidSaaielsblate 
A large tree, a native of Silhet, where it is called paths: 
gee by the natives; the timber is used for various purposes. 
Flowers in- February = March; seed ripens in July and 
August, ; 
' Leaves alternate, petioled, broad-lanceolar, tapering most 
toward the base, entire, or very remotely sub-serrate, in very 
young plants completely serrate, rather acuminate, smooth ; 
veins simple and paralleled ; from six to twelve inches long, 
by three or four broad. Panicle terminal, large, oblong, 
patent, brown, villous branches, lowers numerous, sessile, 
very minute, yellow. - Bractes oblong, clothed with ferragi- 
-nous’pubescence. Calya three-leaved, independently of two 
or three minute, villous bractes, like a calycle ; leaflets ovate, 
smooth, permanent. “Petals three, broad-ovate, waved, twice 
the ‘length’ of the calyx, permanent. Nectary a rail? 
* lobed, smooth scale from the base of each petal on the inside, 
~ they form a dome over the pistillum, and round the base of 
the germ is found a flat, triangular body, with its angles 
bidentate. Filaments two, opposite, incurved, inserted with- 
out the interior, three-angular nectary ; bifid, the inner lami- 
na’ supporting on its apex a patelliform receptacle, on which 
the two-lobed yellow anther rests. Exterior lamina bifid, 
' segments subulate, rising rather higher than the anther. 
_ Germ superior, two-celled, with two ovula in each, attached 
to the thickened middle of the partition. Style single, short. 
ee pase pit oops a ‘size of a pea, nearly 
? smoot ingus one-cellec . Nut conform to 
angular ; the so or abortive eh abvreylrraesabha’ Seed’ Pee 
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