122 TENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. NaucUa. 



6. N. parvifolia, Tfilld- spec. i. 929- Roxb. Corom> i. 40. tab. 52. 

 Branches and branchlets brachiate. Leaves ovate. Stipules oval. 

 Flowers terminal, one or three. Seeds imbricated, membrane-winged, 

 Teling. Bota kudumee. 



This grows to be a large tree ; is a native of almost every part of 

 the coast of Coromandel, but chiefly up amongst the mountains. 

 Flowers during the cold season. 



Trunk straight. Bark brownish -grey, and cracked. Branches 

 opposite, numerous, spreading, forming a large oval, shady head. — 

 Leaves opposite, decussate, petioled, ovate, entire, smooth. — Petioles 

 channelled. — Stipules large, oblong, obtuse, glutinous, caducous, — 

 Peduncles terminal, single or three, when three the middle one is 

 shortest; near the apex jointed, and bracted, each supporting a 



single, globular, naked head of corollets Bractes two, opposite, 



near the extremity of the peduncle, oval, caducous. — Corollets small, 

 light yellow.— Calyx, common none; common receptacle chaffy, 

 wedge-form, hairy at their insertions. Proper perianth very minute, 

 entire. — Corol one-petalled, funnel-form. Tube widening, Border 

 five-parted ; divisions pointed, spreading. — Filaments five, short, in- 

 serted just within the mouth of the tube. Anthers erect, oblong, 

 pointed above. — Germ beneath. Style thread-form, nearly twice 

 the length of the corol. Stigma large, resting on the style (like the 

 cap of liberty.) — Capsules turbinate, covered with a scabrous crust 

 or bark, which splits irregularly when the seeds are ripe ; within are 

 the proper two-celled capsules, each consisting of one valve, open- 

 ing round the apex and down on the inside.— Seeds several, very 

 minute, oblong, tailed, inversely imbricated round the outside of 

 their receptacle, with insertions downwards. 



Obs. The wood is of a light chesnut colour, firm and close grain- 

 ed, is used for various purposes where it can be kept dry, but exposed 

 to wet it soon rots. 



7. N. cordifolia t Willd. spec. i. 929- Roxb. Corom. i. 40. tab. 53* 



* Specimens have been sent to me by my plant-collector from the vicinity of 



Stiree-Jiusur, where the tree is called 7'ofro.— N. W. 



