JNaudea. pentandria monogynia. l%± 



4. N. Cadamba, R.* 



Leaves petioled, ovate. Stipules triangular. Peduncles terminal, 

 solitary ; divisions of the calyx linear. Capsules four-celled at top.. 

 and two-celled at the base ; seeds without a wing. 



Sung. cffa : , Neepajfq-^;, Prijaka, and <fi^:, Kudumha*. 



Beng. Kudum. 



Katou-tsjaka, Rheed. Mai. 3. t. 33. 



Is common about Calcutta, where it grovsrs to be a large tree aad 

 is not only highly ornamental but very useful from the extensive 

 close shade it yields. Flowering time the hot season. Seed rips 

 in October and November. 



Trunk erect, and perfectly straight, bark smooth r dark grey. 

 Branches numerous, horizontal. — Leaves opposite, between hilari- 

 ous and decussate, spreading, petioled, oval, smooth, entire, nerves 

 many, and simple ; from five to ten inches long. — Petioles smooth, 

 about an inch and a half long. — Stipules mteifoliaceoti3, triangular. 

 ■ — Flowers solitary, terminal, aggregate ; corollets numerous, forming 

 a large, perfectly globular, beautiful, orange-coloured head with the 

 large white clubbed stigmas projecting. — Calyx, common none. Pro- 

 per, five-parted. — Corol as in the genus, only the divisions are never 

 recurved. — Capsules inferior, four-sided, tapering from the apex to 

 the base, near the top it is composed of four, distinct, hard cells, un- 

 der the common envelope ; the lower two-thirds is two-celled only, 

 • — Seeds numerous, very small, angular, brown colour*, 



5. N. glabra, R. 



Leaves elliptic and smooth. Stipules linear. — Peduncles terminal-,. 

 tern ; divisions of the calyx triangular. — Stigma globose; seeds thre«s* 

 or four in each cell. 



A native of the Moluccas. 



* It is difficult to say whether this h Linnens's N. orientalis or not- If Rheede's Ka- 

 icu-Tsjaka is this species, Roxburgh's must undoubtedly be so too. Abbe P.oiret q cotes 

 the former for his citr>folia, (Encycl. hot. iv.435) ; and Lam- III. tab. 1j3. f. 1, which 

 is widely different, for orientalis.— N. W. 



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