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* COLEA floribGnda. 



The Yellow Rei rei. 



DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 

 Nat. ord. Bignoniace.e, § Crescentin.e. 



COLEA Bojer. Involucrum sub-flore nullum. Calyx subcampanulatus, 

 5-dentatus. Corolla infundibuliforrais, tubo oblongo superne parum amphato ; 

 limbi patentis 5-partiti lobis subaequalibus. Stylus (filiformis. Stigma bila- 



mellatum). Fructus carnosus, oblongus, stylo apiculatus, 2 locularis. 



Frutices v. arbusculse glabra, foliis oppositis v. verticillatis, impari-pinnatis, 

 2-00-foliolatis, cum v. absque stipulis ; floribus lateralibus fasciculatis vel spi- 

 catis, vel terminalibus panicidatis. Meisuer genera, p. 301. 



C.Jloribimda ; foliis verticillatis 8-jugis, foliolis oblongo-lanceolatis acumi- 



natis, fasciculis florum multifloris subsessilibus. 

 C. floribunda. Bojer hort. maurit. p. 220. 



Caulis ultra orgyalis, apice foliosus, simplex, in ligno vetusto Jforidus. 

 Folia magna, pinnata cum impari, suboctojuga, verticillata ; foliolis oblongo- 

 lanceolatis, acuminatis, coriaceis, glabris, petiolulatis, sex pollices et ultra 

 loiigis ; terminali nunc bilobo. Flores in umbel las subsessiles supraaxillares 

 dispositi, pedicellati. Calyx campanulatus, obsolete o-dentatus, leviter pu- 

 bescens, tubo corollce rnultb brevior. Corolla fere pollicaris, infundibularis, 

 ochracea, limbo patulo, subregidari, sub sinubus elevato ; laciniis emarginatis 

 ciliatis ; tubo intus villoso. Stamina 5, tubo corollce dvplb breviora ; dorsale 

 sterile, fertilibus brevius ; par proximum incurvum, antheris approximatis pa- 

 rallelis ; proximum omninb simile sed longius. Antberee uniloculares, longitu- 

 dinatit er dehiscent es : loculo altero obsoleto ad basin fertilis. Ovarium an- 

 nido carnoso 5-lobo insertum, oblongum, cum stylo jiliformi continuum ; stigma 

 bilamellatum. 



A native of Madagascar, where, according to Bojer, it 

 inhabits the forests all along the east coast, around Foul Point 

 and in Anton Gil bay. It is a shrub, called by the Malgaches 

 Rei Rei. 



It flowered in August last, probably for the first time in 

 Europe, in the collection of his Grace the Duke of Northum- 

 berland at Syon. It is a stove plant with a stately aspect, and 

 singular habit, in consequence of the stem, which is seven or 

 eight feet high, being perfectly simple, covered with the noble 

 pinnated leaves at the upper end only, and bearing the flowers 

 on the old wood from just above the places whence the leaves 

 of previous years had fallen. The flowers are of a bright 



* Named after General Sir G. Lowry Cole, Governor of the Mauritius. 

 April, 1841. h 



