135 PENTANDIUA. MOXOGYKIA. Hi/menopogOlt* 



margins.— Capsule oblong-clavate, brownish, slightly villous, two- 

 celled, about eight lines long, with truncate apex, bearing the vestige 

 of the insertion of the calycine laciniae, somewhat compressed, with 

 two opposite furrows, along which the two cells separate down to 

 the acute base ; outer membrane at first fleshy, afterwards coria- 

 ceous; inner chartaceous. Dissepiment parallel, consisting of the 

 incurved sides of the inner membrane which meet along the axis 

 of the capsule and are connected by the placenta until the time 

 of maturity, when they separate and each detached cell becomes 

 thereby longitudinally two-valved along its inner, flatter side. Pla- 

 centa linear-oblong, foveolate, detaching itself entirely at the bursting 

 of the cells. — Seeds very numerous, densely imbricate, adscending, 

 small, brown, cuneate, scabrous and rugose, their vertex crowned 

 with an irregularly crenulate short membrane. 



Obs. It is impossible to conceive any thing more beautiful than 

 this tree when covered with its numerous rounded panicles of pink 

 coloured, very fragrant, large blossoms, I have been told that it grows 

 sometimes to a much greater size than that mentioned above, 

 which is the one I have observed it to attain. The ovary and the 

 half-ripe capsule shew a peculiar structure, appearing four-celled, 

 in consequence of the inner tough membrane continuing, after it has 

 formed the dissepiment, to turn inward, penetrating almost through 

 the fleshy plancenta to the opposite side of the cell, which in conse- 

 quence appears sab-divided. 



mMENOPOGUN. Wall 



Calyx above, five-parted. Corolla hypocrateriform, with very long 

 tube, and five-parted border. Stamina enclosed within the swelled 

 apex of the tube. Capmle bursting at the apex into four valves. 

 Seeds imbricate, linear, with a membranous appendage at each end, 

 whence the generic name. 



Its place in the artificial, as well the natural system is the same 

 M the preceding two genera Cinchona and Hymenodictyon, to 



