TURR^A lobata. 

 Lohed Turrcea. 



MONADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Meliace^e. 



TURRJ^J, L. Calyx 5-dentatus, raro in (in T. pumila) 5-partitus, 

 vel (in T. tetramera) 4-ilentatus. Corolla 5-petala, petalis ab ima basi 

 demuni patentibus. Tubus stamineus a corolla liber, intCis ad apicem an- 

 tberas 10, vel (in T. tetramera) 8, sessiles vel brevissime stipitatas gerens, 

 margine (quandoque reflexo) pleriimque in dentes lacinulasve formse varise 

 diviso. Tubus interior nullus ; sed post anthesin annulus brevissimus duplex, 

 exterior e basibus petalorum, interior e basi tubi staminei, persistentibus, 

 basin ovarii cingens. Ovarium 5-, 10-, 20-loculare, loculis sepalis (dum 

 numero sequalibus) oppositis, 2-ovulatis. Stylus tubi staminei longitudine 

 vel longior. Stigma exsertum discoideum, styli dilatationem formae varise ter- 

 minans. Capsula 5-vel pluri-locularis, loculis 1-2-spermis. Semina infra 



apicem suspensa, arillata. Arbores huiiCQSNQ, ioYa^simiilicibusintegerrimis 



rarb (in T. heteropbylla) obtuse lobatis, vel {in T. pumila) sinuato-dentatis. 

 Flores {pedunculo communi abbreviato) fasciculati, pedicellati, vel rarb (in 

 T. tetramera) sessiles. Bennett in Horsfield's Plant. Jav. p, 180. 



T. lobata ; foliis rhombeis apice trilobis dentatisque subtiis pubescentibus, 

 floribus solitariis axillaribus, calycibus 5-dentatis, petalis spathulatis 

 columnse longitudine, columna viginti-dentata intiis hirsuta laciniis 

 subulatis, antheris 10 exsertis, ovario 5-loculari. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 

 1843. misc. 86. 



This very rare stove plant flowered at Chiswick House 

 last July. His Grace the Duke of Devonshire received it 

 from Mr. Whitfield, who collected it in Sierra Leone. The 

 flowers have much the appearance of those of the orange, but 

 have no smell. 



The nearest affinity of this plant is evidently with the T. 

 heterophylla of Smith, a species from the same country, and 

 apparently very like it. But Mr. Bennett, in his revision of 

 the genus in Horsfield's Plantce JavankcB, p. 184, places T. 

 lieteroplmlla in a section having from ten to twenty cells to the 



