Nauclea, . PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIAS. 5 1 ae 
same time very close grained. It is to be had of a large 
_ size, from one to two feet, or more in diameter, and is used 
for almost every purpose where it can be kept dry.. For 
furniture it answers ener” well, being light and dur-. 
able, 
8. N. purpurea, Willd, spec. i. 929. Roxb. Corom, i. 41, 
tab, 54, 
Leaves petioled, oblong, very smooth. Flowers terminal, 
from one to three, segments of the calyx clavate, Seeds very. 
numerous, membrane-winged, imbricated. 
Teling. Bagada, 
A small tree, a native of the moist vallies up amongst the 
Circar mountains, Flowering time the beginning . of the hot 
season, 
Trunk irregular. Bark scabrous, ash-coloured, | leihteichice 
opposite, decussated. Leaves opposite, decussated, short- 
petioled, oblong, pointed, entire, very smooth and shining 
both above and below, from four to nine inches long, and 
broad in proportion. Stipules as in the two preceding species. 
Peduneles terminal, one or three. Flowers larger than in 
either: of the former species, purple, Calyx, common none. 
septacte almost naked. Proper perianth as in N, cordifolia, 
Corol, stamens and pistillum as in the species. _ Stigma glo- 
bular. Capsules turbinate, (the outer covering wanting,) 
two-celled; the cells two-valved, opening from the base, 
Seeds numerous, most minute, imbricated with their i insertion 
upwards. 
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9. N. sessilifolia. Ro eS 
Leaves oblong, sessile, base silane clues, samactite: 
the branchlets; apex gonnileds ineies, terminal, itraam 
Capsule. four-valved. | 
A. large tree, a salve of the forests of sf Ohitcebing, where 
it ne from Jattunry till March. 
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