120 pemtandria KOifOGTi^rA. Nauclecr> 



3. N. macrophylla, R. 



heaves stem-clasping, narrow-oval, obtuse, villous underneath. 

 Stipules lanceolate. Peduncles terminal, solitary, one-flowered. 



From -Ambovna this magnificent tree was introduced into the 

 botanic garden at Calcutta, in 1797. In 1810, they began to bios. 

 som in June, the trees were then fifty feet high, and the trunk of 

 the largest raiher above three feet in circumference, four feet above 

 ground, while young their growth was not rapid.* 



Trunk perfectly straight, like the pines, to the very top of the 

 tree. Bark smooth, dark brown. Branches decussate. Branchlets 

 round and smooth. — Leaves opposite, stem-clasping, broad-oblong, 

 entire, obtuse, and though they completely embrace the branchlets, 

 yet taper more toward the much waved base than the apex, some- 

 what villous particularly underneath, veins parallel ; length from eight 

 to twenty-four inches, and broad in proportion, when the trees were 

 young, they were even more than two feet lon^. — Stipules opposite, 

 linear-lanceolate, concave, smooth and veinless, about three inches 

 long. — Peduncles terminal, solitary, length of the stipules, recurvate, 

 giving support to a single most beautiful flower, of full three inches 

 In diameter, and sweet smelling, the corollets are very numerous, of 

 a pale yellow-colour ; and the stigmas, which project far beyond them, 

 are pure white.- — Common calyx none; proper perianth of five, long, 

 clavate leaflets.— Carol funnel-shaped. Tube slender, widening gent- 

 ly to the mouth ; segments five, ovate-oblong, spreading. — Filaments 

 none. Anthers attached to the mouth of the tube of the corol, un- 

 der the fissures of its border, sagittate. — Germ numerous, distinct, 

 inferior, somewhat wedge-shaped, two-celled, with numerous, im- 

 bricated ovula in each, attached to every part of a free linear recep- 

 tacle, which is united to the partition, a little above its middle, and 

 descends deep into each cell, in fact, it is exactly that of Gaertnei's 

 Qldenlandia corymbosa, i. 147- t. SO, inverted. Style twice the 

 length of the corol. Stigma clavate, somewhat two-lobed. 



* The trunk of this noble tree measures now (April 1822), fife feet two inches 

 at the above-mentioned distance from the base.— N. W. 



