Nauclea. pentandria monogynia. 509 



broad. Petioles coloured, slightly channelled, about two 

 inches long. Stipules elliptic, length of the petioles, smooth. 

 Peduncles terminal, solitary, drooping, each bearing a single, 

 laro-e olobular, aggregate head of numerous, small, most 

 beautiful, yellow, fragrant florets. Bracte, a small, wither- 

 ing, somewhat four-toothed ring near the base of the pedun- 

 cles, and hid hy the stipules. Calyx, common none, or very 

 obscure; proper, of one fleshy cup, cut into four or live, cla- 

 vate segments. Corol funnel-shaped, much longer than the 

 perianth ; yellow and fragrant; divisions of the border four, 

 or five, oval, obtuse. Filaments scarcely any. Anthers on 

 the five fissures of the border of the corol. Germs inferior, 

 orown together, two-celled, with many ovida in each, attach- 

 ed to their proper receptacles, projecting downwards from 

 their attachment to the partition a little above its middle. 

 Style much longer than the corol. Stigma large, oblong, 

 with the apex somewhat two-lobed. Fruit the size of a small 

 apple, rough with the remains of the segments of the calyx, 

 now forming five conic knobs on the crown of each of the par- 

 tial seed vessels, which are all firmly grown together, each 

 of these are two-celled. Seeds rarely more than one in each 

 cell, and fragrant, not one of the whole being abortive, they 

 are oblong, not winged but crowded with a fleshy gland 

 which unites them to the receptacles on the partition. Inte- 

 guments uncertain, from the smallness of seed. Perisperm 

 conform to the seed. Embryo inverse, nearly as long as the 

 perisperm. Cotyledons oblong. Radicle oval, superior. 



2. N. cordata. R. 



Leaves petioled, broad-ovate-cordate, obtuse, coriaceous, 

 smooth. Stipules obovate. Flowers terminal, solitary. 

 Capsules united. 



A native of Ceylon, reared from seed sent from thence in 

 1802, to the Botanic garden at Calcutta by General Hay 

 Macdowall, where the young trees blossomed in May and 

 June, 1808, and the seeds ripened in the cold season. 



