508 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Nauelea. 
two to three inches long, and half an inch broad. Stipules 
none, - Spikes terminal, or leaf-opposed, peduncled, cylin- 
dric, middle-sized, closely surrounded with the fructifica- 
tions. Bractes small, three-fold, one-flowered ; one below, and 
one on each side, pressing the calyx. Flowers small, white. 
Calyx superior, one-leaved, five-cleft; divisions obtuse, 
spreading when the flower is open, afterwards converging 
over the capsule, permanent. Corol one-petalled, Tube 
short; throat gibbous ; mouth five-cleft, inflexed. Filaments 
five, short, inserted into the mouth of the tube. Anthers two- 
lobed, in the gibbous throat of the corol. Germ inferior, an- 
gular, Style short. Stigma headed. Capsule turbinate, an- 
gular, (from being pressed one against another,) two-celled, 
circumcised, ‘Seeds minute, very numerous, oblong. 
NAUCLEA. Schreb. gen. N. 295. 
Flowers aggregate, on a globular receptacle. Corollets 
funnel-shaped. Germs inferior, two-celled ; cells many-seed- 
ed ; attachment interior. Capsules two-celled. Seeds many, 
imbricated, and winged. Embryo inverse, and furnished with 
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Arboreous, branches brachiate. Leaves sich oneness 
ing isceeno meen elliptic, _— - ee — — 
A ndtv of dhs Moludeay from arias siiffodabett' jiito ‘he 
Botanic garden at Calcutta in 1789, where the trees blossom 
in May and June; the seeds take above a year to ripen. — 
Trunk perfectly straight to the top of the tree. -Branehes 
brachiate. Bark smooth, that of the ligneous parts brown, 
that of the tender parts green. Height of ten year old trees, 
: ~ fifteen to twenty-five feet. Leaves opposite, petioled, 
-ovate-oblong and oblong, waved, entire, “polished on both 
°s; from six to twelve-inches long’ by from three 
