234 CALYCIFLORJE. 



1. Spathelia simplex. Mountain-pride. 

 Leaves about 20-35-paired, leaflets oblong. 



Aceri aut.Paliuro afBnis arbor caudice non ramoso,-foHis sorbi, 

 floribus purpureis, Sloane, II. t. 171. — Spathelia simplex, Bot. 

 Reg. t. 670 — Gcertn. Frtict. I. 278. t. 58. 



HAB. Common in the lower mountain districts, particularly 

 of a limestone formation. 



FL. Summer months. 



A tree, 20-30 feet in height, simple, not branched, terete, 

 scarred, bearing the leaves and flowers at its extremity, where 

 it is ferrugineo-tomentulose. Leaves 3-4 feet in length, im- 

 pari-pinnated : leaflets 3-6 inches long (those at the centre of 

 the leaf being the largest), about 30-paired, subopposite, 

 shortly petiolulated, oblong, acuminate with the apex incrassated 

 and bluntish, unequal at the base, nerved and veined, minutely 

 stellato-puberulous especially above : common petiole 3-gonal, 

 channelled above, thickened at the insertion, ferrugineo-puberu- 

 lous : petiolules terete, stellato-puberulous. Raceme panicled, 

 subterminal, 4-6 feet in height : flower-stalk very much 

 branched, angulose, deep purple, stellato-puberulous : flowers 

 numerous, of a crimson lilac colour, on short filiform pubescent 

 pedicels. Calycine sepals 5, oblong, blunt, minutely ciliated 

 and puberulous externally, coloured, membranaceous. Petals 

 twice the length of the sepals, oblong, subacute. Filaments 5, 

 dilated and internally villous at the base : anthers large in pro- 

 portion, oblong. Ovary 3-gonal, minutely puberulous : style 

 O : stigmata 3, minute, spreading. 



This is one of the most beautiful and showy of our native 

 plants. During the summer months it is a conspicuous object 

 in the mountain's woods, rising with a straight simple stem 

 above the surrounding shrubs and lowly trees, crowned with a 

 circle of leaves, and adorned with a magnificent plume of 

 bright purple flowers. This tree commences flowering in the 

 5-7th year, and, after that, continues to do so annually. 



XI. SURIANA. 



Calyx 5-partite. Petals 5, hypogynous or inserted 

 at the base of the calyx. Stamens 5—10 with some 

 of them usually abortive. Carpels 5, bearing a fili- 

 form style from their inner side, terminating in a cori- 

 aceous valveless indehiscent nut. Seed single, obo- 

 vato-reniform, exalbuminous; embryo replicate; radi- 

 cle terete, directed downward ; cotyledons plane, 

 incumbent. — De Cand. 



Name, in honour of Joseph Don at Surian. 



