102 DIANDRIA MONOQYNIA. Mlllwgfoma. 



two ; exterior fibrous^ and striated : interior rather thick, brown, 

 adhering to the perisperm. — Perisperm conform to the seed, oily. — 

 Embryo straight, nearly as long as the perisperm, inverse- Cotyle- 

 dons lanceolate. Radicle cylindric, superior. 



MILLINGTONIA. R. 



Calyx three-leaved, calycled. Carol three-petalled, nectarial scale 

 on the inside of each. Germ two-celled, two-seeded. Drupe with 

 one, or two-celled, two-valved, nut seed solitary. Embryo curved 

 and folded, with little or no perisperm, and with a curved inferior ra- 

 dicle. 



Having found it necessary to deprive our countryman the late Sir 

 Thomas Millington of the genus assigned to his memory by the 

 younger Linneus, (Supl. 45 and 201) because, on finding the ripe 

 seed vessel of the only species thereof, I ascertained it to be a true 

 Bignonia as I suspected; I have thtiefore restored that re- 

 spectable name to the system, under a different dress, by giving it to 

 the two trees which at present constitute this strong'y marked fa- 

 mily, and, which I am inclined to think, have not, until now, been 

 described.* 



l.'M.' simplicifolia- R. 



Leaves altLrnate, simple, broad-lanceolate. 



A large tree, a native of Sil/iet, where it is called Dantrungee by 

 the natives ; the timber is used for various purpose. Flowers in Fe- 

 bruary and March ; seed ripe in July and August. 



Leaves alternate, petioled, broad-lanceolar, tapering most toward 

 the baise, entire, or very remotely subserrate, in very young plants 

 completely serrate, rathejr acuminate, smooth ; veins simple and pa- 

 callel ; from six to twelve iuciies long, by three or four br^ad. — Panicle 

 terminal, large, oblong, rather open, composed of many, alternate 

 decompound, long, patent, brown, villous branches. — Flowers ww- 

 merous, sessile, very minute, yellow. — Bractes oblong, clothed with 



* Millingtonia, Donn. Hort, Cantab- is Roxburgh's Fleminsia.—ti. W. 



