PJuUclea. MSNTANDRIA MONOGYW«A. 1H 



one below, and one on each side, pressing the calyx — Flowers small, 

 white — Calyx superior, one-leaved, five-cleft ; divisions obtuse, 

 spreading when the flower is open, afterwards converging over the 

 capsule, permanent. — Corol one-petalled. Tube short ; throat gibbous ; 

 mouth five-cleft, inflexed, — Filaments five, short, inserted into the 

 mouth of the tube. Anthers two-lobed, lodged in the gibbous throat 

 of the corol.— Germ inferior, angular. Style short. Stigma headed. — 

 Capsule turbinate, angular, (from being pressed one against ano- 

 ther,) two-celled, circumcised. — Seeds minute, very numerous, oblong. 



NAVCLEA Schreb, Gen. N. 293. 



Flowers aggregate, on a globular receptacle. Corollets funnel-' 

 shaped. Germs inferior, two celled, cells many-seeded, attachment 

 interior. Capsules two-celled. Seeds many, imbricated, and winged. 

 Embryo inverse, and furnished with a perisperm. 



1. N. undulata, R. 



Arboreous, branches brachiate. Leaves petioled, ovate-oblong, 

 waved. Stipules elliptic, length of the petioles. Flowers terminal, 

 solitary. Capsules united. 



A native of the Molluccas, from thence introduced into the bo- 

 tanic garden at Calcutta in 1789, where the trees blossom in May 

 and June, the seeds take above a year to ripen. 



Trunk perfectly straight to the top of the tree. Branches braclu~ 

 ate. Bark smooth, that of the ligneous parts brown, that of the ten- 

 der parts green. Height of ten year old trees, from fifteen to twenty- 

 jive feet. — Leaves opposite, petioled, ovate-oblong and oblong, waved, 

 entire, polished on both sides ; from six to twelve inches long by from 

 three to six broad. — Petioles coloured, slightly channelled, about two 

 inches long. — Stipules elliptic, length of the petioles, smooth. — Pe- 

 duricles terminal, solitary, drooping, each bearing a single, large glo- 

 bular, aggregate head of numerous, small; most beautiful, yellow, fra- 



