MiUingtonia. diandria monogynia. 103 



therefore restored that respectable name to the system, under 

 a different dress, by giving- it to the two trees which at pre- 

 sent constitute this strongly marked family, and which, I am 

 inclined to think, have not, until now, been described. 



1. M. simpliciJbUa. JR. 



Leaves alternate, simple, broad-lanceolate. 



A large tree, a native of Silhet, where it is called Dant run- 

 gee by the natives ; the timber is used for various purposes. 

 Flowers in February and March; seed ripens in July and 

 August. 



Leaves alternate, petioled, broad-lanceolar, tapering most 

 toward the base, entire, or very remotely sub-serrate, in very 

 young plants completely serrate, rather acuminate, smooth ; 

 veins simple and paralleled; from six to twelve inehes long, 

 by three or four broad. Panicle terminal, large, oblong, 

 patent, brown, villous branches. Flowers numerous, sessile, 

 very minute, yellow. Bractcs oblong, clothed with ferrugi- 

 nous pubescence. Culijx three-leaved, independently of two 

 or three minute, villous bractes, like a calycle ; leaflets ovate, 

 smooth, permanent. Petals three, broad-ovate, waved, twice 

 the length of the calyx, permanent. Nectar)/ a variously 

 lobed, smooth scale from the base of each petal on the inside, 

 they form a dome over the pistillum, and round the base of 

 the germ is found a flat, triangular body, with its angles 

 bidentate. Filaments two, opposite, incurved, inserted with- 

 out the interior, three-angular nectary; bifid, the inner lami- 

 na supporting on its apex a patelliform receptacle, on which 

 the two-lobed yellow anther rests. Exterior lamina bifid, 

 segments subulate, rising rather higher than the anther. 

 Germ superior, two-celled, with two ovula in each, attached 

 to the thickened middle of the partition. Style single, short. 

 Stigma obscurely two-lobed. Drupe size of a pea, nearly 

 round, succulent, smooth, black, one-celled. Nut conform to 

 the drupe, rarely more than one-celled, hard, cell somewhat 

 angular ; the second or abortive cell always traceable. Seed 



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