508 PENTANORIA MONOGYNIA. XuitcleU. 



two to three inches long', anil half an inch broad. Stipules 

 none. Spikes terminal, or leaf-opposed, pednncled, cyliu- 

 dric, middle sized, closely surrounded with the fructifica- 

 tions. Bractes small, three-fold, one-flowered; one below, and 

 one on each side, pressing- the calyx. Flowers small, white. 

 Calyx superior, one-leaved, five-cleft ; divisions obtuse, 

 spreading when the flower is open, afterwards converging' 

 over the capsule, permanent. Corol one-petalled. Tube 

 short; throat gibbous; mouth five-cleft, in flexed. Filaments 

 five, short, inserted into the mouth of the tube. Anthers two- 

 lobed, in the gibbous throat of the corol. Germ inferior, an- 

 gular. Style short. Stigma headed. Capsule turbinate, an- 

 gular, (from being pressed one against another,) two-celled, 

 circumcised. Seeds minute, very numerous, oblong. 



NAUCLEA. Schreb. gen. N. 295. 

 Flowers aggregate, on a globular receptacle. Corollets 

 funnel-shaped. Germs inferior, two-celled ; cells many-seed- 

 ed ; attachment interior. Capsules two-celled. Seeds many, 

 imbricated, and winged. Embryo inverse, and furnished with 

 a perisperm. 



1. N. undulata. R. 



Arboreous, branches brachiate. Leaves petioled, ovate-ob- 

 long, waved. Stipules elliptic, length of the petioles. Flowers 

 terminal, solitary. Capsules united. 



A native of the Moluccas, from thence introduced into the 

 Botanic garden at Calcutta in 1789, where the trees blossom 

 in May and June; the seeds take above a year to ripen. 



Trunk perfectly straight to the top of the tree. Branches 

 brachiate. Bark smooth, that of the ligneous parts brown, 

 that of the tender parts green. Height of ten year old trees, 

 from fifteen to twenty-five feet. Leaves opposite, petioled, 

 ovate-oblong and oblong, waved, entire, policed on both 

 sides; from six to twelve inches long by from three to six 



