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persistent, large. Flowers sessile, in solitary or ternate, pedunculate 

 heads; the peduncles often thickened near the apex and bearing caduc- 

 ous bracts, often of large size, mostly caducous ; the flowers mixed with 

 bracteoles consisting of long thin stalks and conical hairy heads, or 

 ebracteolate. (7aZ?/ai-tubes closely adpressed ; but not united with each 

 other; the lobes 5, deciduous, filiform or spathulate, often thickened at 

 the apex- and hairy, valvate in estivation. Corolla infundibuliform ; 

 the lobes 5, short, imbricate, the throat glabrous. Stamens 5 ; the 

 -anthers oblong or linear, included in the tube of the corolla; filaments 

 very short. Style elongate, rather stout: stigma sub-globose or globose- 

 ovoid. Ovary 2-celled, the placentas pendulous ; ovules imbricate. 

 Fruit of 2 cocci, often separating from the persistent axis, dehiscent. 

 Seeds flattened; the testa with a wing, bifid at one end, acute at 

 the other, — Distrib. About 30 species mostly tropical and Indo- 

 Malayan. 



Lobes of corolla densely sericeous-strigose externally ; 

 peduncles solitary, short, each with 2 large sub- 

 persistent bracts ... ... ... ... 1. N. Gageana. 



Lobes of corolla minutely glandnlar-puberulous exter- 

 nally ; bracts of peduncle deciduous, minute ... 2. N. synhorynes. 

 Lobes of corolla glabrous or nearly so : — 



Capitule enveloped in two large sub-persistent 



bracts ... ... ... ... 3. N. purpurascens. 



Bracts near the base of the capitule, small, decidu- 

 ous ... ... ... ... ... 4. N. nicobarica. 



Bracts near the base of the peduncle, small, ternate, 

 deciduous ... ... ... ... 5. N. peduncularis. 



1. Nauclea Gageana King. n. sp. A tree ; young branches rather 

 sto'ut, slightly compressed, when dry pale-brown. Leaves coriaceous, 

 broadly ovate-elliptic (sub-rhomboidal) gradually naiTOwed to the 

 obtuse apex, the base cuneate; both surfaces quite glabrous, the upper 

 shining (when dry); the lower dull, reticulate; main-nerves 8 to 10 

 pairs, spreading, prominent on the lower surface: the midrib very bold ; 

 length 6 to 8 in. ; breadth 35 to 4'5 in. ; petiole '6 to *8 in., flattened, 

 winged in its upper part. Capitules about 1'5 in. in diam., solitary or in 

 pairs. Peduncles 1 in. long, with a pair of large (125 in. long) sub- 

 persistent bracts above the middle. Calyx short, eylindric, densely 

 sericeous ; the mouth very short, with 5 broad truncate lobes. Corolla 

 infundibuliform, '1; to '5 in. long, outside glabrous in its lower, sericeous- 

 strigose in its upper part; inside glabrous ; lobes of the mouth 5, ovate. 

 Style exserted, glabrous ; stigma ovoid. Fruit villous. Bracteoles of the 

 capitulum fusiform, villous. 



Andaman Islands : King's Collector 4G3, Prams Collector 76. 



