656 POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Miclielia. 



MICHELIA. Schreh. gen. n. 943. 



Gen. Char. Spathe one-leaved, deciduous. Carol 

 many-petalled. Germ numerous, one-celled, few-seed- 

 ed; attachment interior. Capsules numerous, few-seed- 

 ed. Embryo centripetal, furnished with a perisperm. 



1. M. Champaca. Willd. 2. 1260. 



Leaves lanceolate, round, smooth, entire. Flowers 

 axillary, solitary, short-peduncled. 



Champaca. Rheed. Mai. 1. t. 19. 



Sampacca. Rumph. Amb. 2. t. 67 and 68. 



Beng. Champaka, or Chumpa. 



Sa7}s. Champaca. See Asiat. Res. 4. 287. 



A pretty large tree, common in gardens over most parts 

 of India. Flowering time the rainy season ; the seed 

 ripens in the cold season. Tru7ik straight ; branches 

 ascending and spreading. Leaves alternate, round the 

 extremities of the branchlet, petioled, lanceolate, waved, 

 smooth, entire, from four to six inches long. Petioles 

 marked on the upper margins with the cicatrices of the 

 stipules. Stipules spathiform, adjoined to the petioles, 

 caducous. Peduncles axillary, short, thick, one-flower- 

 ed. Flowers large, yellow, delightfully fragrant. Bractes 

 several, helow the calyx, like it, but smaller, also cadu- 

 cous. Calyx a conical, leathery sheath bursting on one 

 side, and falling off before the flowers expand. Petals 

 from twelve to twenty, lanceolate, the exterior largest. 

 Filaments subulate, inserted into the receptacle below 

 the germs. Anthers, two, growing on the inside of each 

 filament. Germs numerous, forming an imbricated cone, 

 semi-ovate, furrowed on the outside, one-celled, with from 

 four to twelve ovula in two vertical rows attached to the 

 inner angle of the cell. Style and stigma from a short 

 recurvate, ragged, glandular, yellow body. 



Capsules many, sessile, distinct, oblong, obtuse, arrange 



