70 BOTANY, 



SWEET SCENTED UVARIA. 



Native cottages on the Coast are often overshadowed 

 by the sweet uvaria, whose yellow-green petals almost 

 blend their colouring with that of the leaves, 



Uvaria odorata. 



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GORDONIA. 



A species of gordonia is a conspicuous tree in Maul- 

 main. It belongs to the same family as the tea plant, 

 and the camelias of which the japonicas are such favo- 

 rites, and is a member of the same genus as the American 

 loblolly bay, and Franklinia, to which the flower bears 

 a stroYig resemblance. Wallich has named our tree the 

 abundant flowering gordonia, but there is some differ- 

 ence between the Tavoy and Maulmain trees; whether 

 enough however to constitute different species, isdoubtful- 

 Tiic Maulmain tree 1 as leaves precisely like O, obtusa 

 u with shallow serratures ; " but the leaves of the Tavoy 

 tree are quite entire. The Burmese have different names 

 for them. 



Gordonia fioribunda . 

 023. Sou (Maulmain.) 



coScpgu (Tavoy.) 



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ORNAMENTAL DILLENIA. 



When a stranger debarks at Maulmain in February, ins 

 attention is arrested by a tree without a leaf, but covered 

 with large gaudy yellow flowers, it is the ornamental dil- 

 lenia. Several other species of the genus are indigenous 

 in the Provinces. 



Dillcnia ornata. 



