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BROWNUAVIA* data 

 Ijlftij liroicnhni-in. 



POLVANDKIA MOXOC.YXI.i. 



Nat. ord. Tii.iACC.t: Jusa. {Tntrodnction to the natural system of 

 Botanif, p. 40.') 



BROWNLOWfA Roxh. — Calyx nioiiophylliis, cunipanulatus, limbo 

 3-5-paitito : lobis in restivationc valvaiis, quibiisdam sapius connatis. 

 Pctalu 5, demuni revohita, basi gvnophori hrevis turbinati iiiserta, uiigue 

 brcvi concavo. Discus millus. Stamina inclcHiiita, distiiicta, apice {;y- 

 nopliori inserta sub ovario ; anthcrcB 2-locularcs : loculis basi sejunctis. 

 Stamina strrilia 5, petaloidca, basi ovarii inserta, carptllis altcnia. Orariiim 

 .5-loi'uiare, ovidis utroque loculo binis, uno supra altcnnn appcnso. Stylus 

 subulatus. Stigtna simplex. Pericarjda (ex Roxb.) 1-5, 1-locularia, 

 2-valvia, monosperma. Radicula infera ; cotyledones planoe ; alhuvien 0. 



• Arbor excelsa, toliis alteniis, sublobatis, cxstipulatis, pube stellat/i, 



succo mucilagineo ; paniculis terminalibus. 



B. elata. Roxburgh's plants of the coast of Coromandel, vol. 3. tab. 265. 



Dr. Wallich has favoured us with the following account of this remark- 

 able plant : — 



" This noble tree was sent by I^r. Riixbiirf,'li, in 1812, to Sir Abraliani Hume, after 

 whose lamented lady he had originally called it Ilnmea; a name that had been jireviously 

 a|>|)lied to a different ])lant by Sir James Kdward Smith. It blossomed in September 

 1!>:{1 in the stove at ^\'o^nlleybnrv, then measuring nine feet and a half in height, and 

 the stem ten inehes in cirrumference. The tree was in the most healthy and iKMUtiful 

 state, some of the lea\es measuring ten inches and a half in length by eight in breadth. 

 Thus another beautiful object has \tevn added to the list of noble species that llonrish in 

 the Garden of A\'ormleybury, where I had the gratification of seeing, only a few months 

 before, the finest specimen in Euro])e of Preonia papaveracea covered with more than two 

 thousand superb fiowers, and where the Vulan forms a large tree, perfuming the air in 

 its season with myriads of fragrant blossoms. 



" In the Kotanic (Jardeii, Calcutta, where this magnificent tree has only blossome<l 

 of late vears, it forms, at all times, a beautiful spectacle, especially when covered with its 

 numerous grand panicles of yellow flowers. 



"• It is indigenous in t'hittagong, where, according to Dr. Roxburgh, it grows to a 

 large size, particularly in the back part of that province; flowering in ."May, and ripening 

 its seed in October. Its vernacular name is Maws-jaul. 



" In Ur. Koxburgh's figure, in the Plants of t tie Coast of Coromnndcl, the leaves are 



" This majestic tree was dedicated by Dr. Roxburgh to the memon,' of the late liady 

 Brownlow, daughter of the Lady Anudia Hume, by whose premature decease Botany lost 

 one of its best and most powerful patronesses. 



