510 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Nauclea, 
Trunk straight up through the branches to the very top of 
the tree. Bark of a light greenish ash-colour. Branches 
spreading, horizontal, forming a broad-ovate, shady head, ge- 
neral height of our six years old trees from fifteen to twenty 
feet. Leaves opposite, short-petioled ; from round-cordate to 
ovate-cordate, obtuse, entire, coriaceous, smooth; marked 
with prominent, alternate veins; the upper surface shining — 
dark green, the under one paler; length from three to nine 
inches, and from two to eight broad. Petioles roundish, 
smooth, about an inch or an inch and a half long. - Stipules 
interfoliaceous, large, roundish, or obovate, apex rounded, 
marked with numerous, fine veins, caducous. Peduncles ter- 
minal, solitary, and generally in the small lateral branchlets, 
_ drooping, each supporting a large, beautiful, globular, aggre- 
gate head of very fragrant bright yellow florets. Bractea 
small, irregularly four-toothed, withering ring round the pe- 
duncles, near the base, within the stipules. Calyx, common 
none, or very obscure; proper deeply cut into four or five, 
fleshy, clavate, permanent segments, which thicken as the fruit 
advances in size, Florets funnel-shaped, four or five-parted. 
Divisions obovate, obtuse. Filamenis very short, from the 
mouth of the tube just under the fissures of its border, An- 
thers cordate. Germ inferior, completely united to each other, 
their whole length two-celled, each containing many imbricat- 
ed seeds attached to a receptacle rising from the partition 
a atic above its middle. Style much longer than the corol. 
| a oblong, apex obscurely two-lobed, of a beautiful 
pearl colour. Fruit*aggregate, size of a small apple, round, 
rough, with the obtuse, fleshy permanent portions of the di- 
visions of the ealyces; the partial seed vessels thereof are 
firmly united, angular, inversely conical, two-celled, with a 
few oblong, imbricated seeds in each, besides a number of 
small, brown scales, which are the abortive ovula, as may be 
‘seen | by the structure of the germ as well as by their being 
attached to the same central receptacle; the full grown seeds” 
are crowned with a greenidh, fleshy-gland, to shidebene: 
