102 diandri a monogyni.v. MiWngtonia. 



Bhooeemoora, the vernacular name in Sillier, where it 

 grows to be a very large tree, ami furnishes the natives, &c. 

 with very hard durable wood. Flowering time June and 

 July ; the seed ripens in January and February. 



Young shoots void of pubescence, but dotted with small 

 whitish specks. Leaves opposite, short-petioled. o\ ate-lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, rutin', smooth; three or four inches 

 loner, and one or one and a half broad. Panicles terminal, 

 large, very ramous; ramifications tour, round, and villous. 

 Fhwerschloag, acute, villous. Calyx bowl-shaped, four- 

 toothed. Corn/ campanulate. Tube very short; border 

 four-parted. Filament* short, inserted on the little tube of 

 the corol opposite t<> cadi other. Anthers oblong. Germ 

 superior, depressed, two celled, with two ovula in each, at- 

 tached to the top of the partition. Style and Stigma rlavate. 

 apex flat and emarginate. Berries (far they can scarce be 

 called drupes) sub-cybndric, smooth, succulent,' dark olive- 

 purple, size of a large berry, rarely more than one celled. 

 Seed solitary, conform to the berry, Integuments two; exte- 

 rior fihrous.and striated ■ interior rather thick, brown, adher- 

 ing to the perisperm. Perisperm conform to the seed, oily. 

 Embryo straight, nearly as long as the perisperm, inverse. 

 Cotyledons lanceolate. Radicle cylindrie, superior. 



MILLINGTONIA. R. 



Calyx three-leaved, ralyrled. Corol three-petalled, necta- 

 rial scale on the inside of each. Germ two-celled, two-seeded. 

 Drupe with one, or two-celled, two-v alved nut ; seed solitary. 

 Embryo curved and folded, with little or no perisperm, and 

 with a curved inferior radicle. 



Having found it necessary to deprive our countryman the 

 late Sir Thomas Millingrton of the genus assigned to his ine- 

 mory by the younger Linnceus, (Sup/. 45 anr/201) because, 

 on finding the ripe seed vessel of the only species thereof, I 

 ascertained it to be a true Bignonia as I suspected ; 1 have 



