654 POLYANDRiA POLYGYNiA. Liriodendron. 



side of the ed«ies of (he petioles of the next inferior leaf. 

 Flowers terminal, solitary, large, as in Miller's tigure of 

 Magnolia grandiflora, and like them white and fragrant. 

 Calyx what I consider to be it, or an involucre on the 

 many spathes which cover the flower bud, and drop 

 oflf in succession, as it swells, leaving strong annular 

 marks behind. Petals nine, oval, thick, firm, and flesh)^, 

 with thin waved edges, the exterior three or four green, 

 on the outside, all the rest white. Statnina numerous, 

 imbricated upwards, linear, incurved, having on each side 

 a p(!lliniferous groove to within a very little of the base. 

 Germs numerous, imbricated upward into a cone, swelled 

 at the base, one-celled, and containing two ovula attach- 

 ed to the inner angle or side of the cell ; upper part (style,) 

 free, ensiform, and villous. Stigma siinple. 



Fructification as described by Gaertner de fruct. 2. p. 

 475. an oblong strobiiilorm cone, of about sixteen inches 

 in length, and from seven to eight in circumference, up- 

 wardly imbricated, with numerous long-tailed, folicular 

 samara, which open on the outside near the base, and 

 expose to view the large beautiful orange-coloured seeds, 

 often hanging by a slender, soft, sericeous filament. Seeds 

 one or two, sub triangular; angles rounded. Integuments 

 three, the exterior one fleshy, and while fresh of a fine 

 glossy orange colour, the second of a reniform texture, 

 dividing into two valves, when vegetation begins, the 

 inner one a fine membrane. Perisperm conform to the 

 seed, soft and oily. Embryo small, lodged in that angle 

 of the perisperm next the umbilicus. Cotyledons cordate. 

 Radicle oval, centripetal. 



2. L. LiUfera. Willd. 2. 1255. 

 Leaves broad-lanceolate, entire, smooth. 

 Beng. Auoa-chumpa. 



A pretty large tree, a native of the hilly countries in 

 the vicinity of Siihet. 



