CLASS Vl. 



HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



URANIA. Schreh. gen. n. 539. 



Calyx a common spathe. Corol six-pctalled. Germ 

 three-celled. Ovula numerous ; attachment septal. Cap- 

 sule inferior, three- celled, three-valved. Seeds in two rows, 

 axilled. Embryo centripetal, and furnished ^vith a peris- 

 perm. 



U. speciosa. Willd. 2. p. 7. 



Ravenalia madagascariensis. Sonner. it. bid. 223. t. 

 124-5 and 6. 



In 1802 three plants of this elegant tree were brought 

 from the Island of Mauritius by Capt. Tennant to the 

 Botanic Garden at Calcutta. They were planted in dif- 

 ferent soils, and situations. That which was in a very 

 moist place, and in a rich brownish black soil, throve 

 more luxuriantly than the other two, though in a soil 

 equally rich but lighter coloured, much higher and drier; 

 the former flowered for the first time about the close of 

 1806 and again in September, 1807, when the accompany- 

 ing and following description was made. The seeds 

 of the first crop of flowers ripened in November, 1807. 



Tn^iArof the tree now in flower, simple, and straight, 

 eighteen inches to the leaves, and thirty-six in circum- 

 ference, round, and marked with the circular impressions 



