Nauclea. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 513 
terminal, tern ; divisions of the calyx triangular. Stigma glo- ' 7 
bose ; seeds three or four in each cell, 
A native of the Moluccas, 
6. N. parvifolia, Willd. spec. i. 929. Roxb, Corom. i. 40. 
tab. 52. 
Branches and branchlets brachiate. Leaves ovate. Sti- 
pules oval. Flowers terminal, one or three. Seeds imbricat- 
ed, membrane-winged, | 
Teling. Bota kudumee. 
_ This grows to be a large tree; is a native of almost every 
part of the coast of Coromandel, but chiefly up amongst the 
mountains, Flowers during the cold season, 
Trunk straight... Bark brownish gray, and. cracked. 
Branches opposite, numerous, spreading, forming a large 
oval, shady head, Leaves opposite, decussate, petioled, ovate, 
entire, smooth. Petioles channelled. Stipules large, oblong, 
obtuse, glutinous, caducous. Peduncles terminal, single or 
three, when three the middle one is shortest ; near the apex 
jointed, and bracted, each supporting a single, globular, nak- 
ed head of corollets. | Bractes two, opposite, near the extre- 
mity of the peduncle, oval, caducous. Corollets small, light 
yellow. Calyx, common none. Common receptacte chaffy, 
_wedge-form, hairy at their insertions, Proper perianih very 
minute, entire. Corol one-petalled, funnel-form. Tube widen- 
ing. Border five-parted ; divisions pointed, spreading. Fi- 
laments five, short, inserted just within. the mouth of the tube, 
Anthers erect, oblong, pointed above. Germ beneath, Style 
thread-form, nearly twice the length of the corol. Sti 
large, resting on the style (like the cap of liberty,) turbinate, 
covered with a scabrous crust or bark, which splits irregular- 
ly when the seeds are ripe; within are the proper two-celled 
capsules, each consisting of one valve, opening round the apex 
and down on the inside, Seeds several, very minute, oblong, 
tailed, inversely imbricated round the outside of their recep- 
- tacle, with insertions downwards, 
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