JVauclea. pentandria monogynia. 513 



terminal, tern ; divisions of the calyx triangular. Stigma glo- 

 bose ; seeds three or four in each cell. 

 A native of the Mol uccas. 



6. N. parvifolia. Willd. spec, i. 929. Roxb. Corom. i. 40. 

 tab. 52. 



Branches and branchlets brachiate. Leaves ovate. Sti- 

 pules oval. Flowers terminal, one or three. Seeds imbricat- 

 ed, membrane-winged. 



Teling. Bota kwdwinee. 



This grows to be a large tree ; is a native of almost every 

 part of the coast of Coromandel, but chiefly up amongst the 

 mountains. Flowers during the cold season. 



Trunk straight. Bark brownish gray, and cracked. 

 Branches opposite, numerous, spreading, forming a large 

 oval, shady head. Leaves opposite, decussate, petioled, ovate, 

 entire, smooth. Petioles channelled. Stipules large, oblong, 

 obtuse, glutinous, caducous. Peduncles terminal, single or 

 three, when three the middle one is shortest ; near the apex 

 jointed, and bracted, each supporting a single, globular, nak- 

 ed head of corollets. Bractes two, opposite, near the extre- 

 mity of the peduncle, oval, caducous. Corollets small, light 

 yellow. Calyx, common none. Common receptacle chaffy, 

 wedge-form, hairy at their insertions. Proper perianth very 

 minute, entire. Corol one-petalled, funnel-form. Tube widen- 

 ing. Border five-parted; divisions pointed, spreading. Fi- 

 laments five, short, inserted just within the mouth of the tube. 

 Anthers erect, oblong, pointed above. Germ beneath. Style 

 thread-form, nearly twice the length of the corol. Stigma 

 large, resting on the style (like the cap of liberty,) turbinate, 

 covered with a scabrous crust or bark, which splits irregular- 

 ly when the seeds are ripe ; within are the proper two-celled 

 capsules, each consisting of one valve, opening round the apex 

 and down on the inside. Seeds several, very minute, oblong, 

 tailed, inversely imbricated round the outside of their recep- 

 tacle, with insertions downwards. 

 vol. i. G s 



