]02 DIDYNARIIA ANGIOSPERMIA. Bif/nOllia. 



garden by Colonel Hardwicke, where it flowers in March, 

 and ripens its seed in May. When in full flower it is one of 

 the most beautiful small trees 1 have seen. 



Trunk erect, in trees eight years old, as thick as a man's 

 thigh, and the whole tree about twenty-five feet high. Bark 

 scabrous, of a brownish ash-colour. Branchlets drooping, 

 like the weeping willows. Leaves simple, opposite, petioled, 

 drooping, linear-lanceolate, apex scarcely pointed, entire, 

 much waved, clothed with minute micaceous scales. Peti- 

 oles slender, channelled. Stipules none. Racemes lateral, 

 from branchlets of one or two years growth, two or three 

 inches long, five or six-flowered. Bractes, one at the base 

 of each pedicel, and an opposite pair a little further up, ca- 

 ducous. Flowers very large, erect, orange-coloured, ino- 

 dorous. Calyx campanulate, five-toothed ; segments short, 

 rounded, often emarginate. Corol ; tube obliquely campa- 

 nulate. Border four-parted ; the upper division larger, and 

 divided into two rounded lobes ; the under three, equal, and 

 nearly round, with the margins slightly waved. Filaments 

 five, the single one small, and abortive. Jlnthers double. 

 Germ linear, two-celled, with numerous ovula in each, at- 

 tached to two longitudinal swellings on each side of the par- 

 tition. Style the length of the stamina. Stigma of two thin, 

 oval, acute lobes. Si/ique linear, curved, considerably flat- 

 tened, so as to bring the sutures into the middle of the sides ; 

 about six or eight inches long b}'^ one in circumference, two- 

 celled, two-valved ; valves smooth, thin, and of a light brown 

 colour. Partition thin, of a dark brownish black, contrary, 

 that is, crossing the sutures, and attached to the middle of the 

 valves. Seeds many, imbricate, thin, with a very thin white 

 membranaceous wing all round ; attached to the partition 

 about half way between its middle and the margins. Pe- 

 risperm none. Embryo with two-lobed cotyledons, and the 

 point of the radicle immediately within the umbilicus. 



