S55 J?entAndriA wonogynia. Hymencdidycnl 



very large tree. Flowers during the rainy season. Seeds ripe in 

 four or five months after. 



Trunk straight, of considerable thickness and height. Branches 

 numerous, spreading. Bark of the trunk pretty thick ; the exterior 

 lamina is grey, light, spongy; it cracks in various directions, and 

 frequently falls off; the middle coat is brown, of a farinaceous na. 

 ture, and is as thick as both the exterior and interior coats; the in- 

 terior is white, (the fresh bark is here described.) — Leaves opposite, 

 petioled, oblong, entire, soft, downy, particularly on the underside; 

 veins simple, and frequently opposite; from six to twelve inches 

 long, and from three to five broad. Floral leaves, the lower pair 

 or two of the ramifications of the panicle are ornamented each 

 with a pair of leaves, in shape like the rest, but much smaller, co- 

 loured, more permanent, and bullate — Petioles round, downy, two 

 or three inches long. — Stipules within the leaves, ovate-cordate, 

 acutely senate, erect, caducous. — Panicles terminal, large, generally 

 with the lower ramifications, cross-armed. — Flowers fascicled, small, 

 greenish-white, exceedingly numerous, exquisitely fragrant. — Calyx 

 superior, five-toothed. — Carol one-petalted, funnel-formed, downy. 

 Tube long. Border five-parted ; divisions oval, spreading, not half the 

 length of the tube — Filaments five, short, inserted into the mouth 

 of the tube. Anthers erect, one-third within the tube. — Germ oval. 

 Style twice the length of the tube. Stigma headed.- — Capsule ob- 

 long crowned with the remains of the calyx, about as thick as a 

 field beau, but twice as long, four-striated, marked with small 

 white, elevated specks, two-celled, two-valved, opening from the 

 top; partition contrary.— Receptacle slender, angular, length of the 

 capsule, affixed lengthways to the suture of the partition. — Seeds 

 from six to twelve in each cell ; chesnut-coloured, imbricated, oblong, 

 compressed, enlarged all round by a membranaceous jagged wing, 

 which at the ba^e is split up to the seed itself. 



Obs. The infusion of one fresh leaf in water all night had little 

 taste, but struck quickly a deep purplish blue with a chalybeate. 

 The two iisner coats of the bark (the outer light spongy stratum is 



