Harpullia. pentandria monogynia. 443 



the seed. After it has lengthened a little by the progress of vegeta- 

 tion, the two-lobtd plumula is very conspicuous. 



Obs. by N. W. 



It was introduced into the Hon. Company's botanic garden at 

 Calcutta by Mr. J. Roxburgh, in 1810, and has since grown to be a 

 veiy elegant tree, of about thirty feet in height, with a rather slender 

 trunk. It blossoms in the hot and rainy seas »ns. The young shoot3 

 as well as the petiols are of a pale glaucous-green colour, a little fur- 

 furaeeous; while quite tender the former are covered with dense 

 ferruginous down- Leaflets elegantly pendulous, somewhat waved, 

 slightly folded, as far as ten inches long, gradually decreasing down- 

 wards. Base of the petwl remarkably thick and ventricose; apex 

 furnished with a small subulate, ferruginous, downy, deciduous pro- 

 cess. Partial p£tu)ls about one-third of an inch long, cylindric, with 

 a narrow channel above. Stipules none. Panicles oblong, lengthened 

 afld slender, at first erect, afterwards nodding in an elegant manner, 

 from fourteen to sixteen inches long; peduncle round, sleuder, slightly 

 enlarged at the ba*e, which is inserted on the bianch a little aboie the 

 axilla; Us branches short, alternate, remote, bearing a few roundish 

 short-pi dicellate fl >weis. Bractes linear-lanceolate, halt an inch 

 long, foiiaceoii3, pubescent; those under the flowers linear subulate, 

 coveted with soft, pa.e, ferruginous down, as are also the pedicels 

 and calyces : they ait all deciduous. Motivation globular, imbri- 

 cate, — Ca/ycine segments very obtuse, unequal : the outer three be- 

 ing lather larger. Corolla smooth, white, sub-iufundibuliform, a 

 little longer than the calyx, with a short tube and recurved limb. 

 Petals obscureiy unguiculate, alternating with the calycine laciniae, 

 Bub-retuse. Filaments subulate, somewhat sunk into the Hat, fleshy, 

 villous, faveolate disc, which occupies the bottom of the flower; an- 

 thers erect, fleshy, with two longitudinal cells. 



This genus belongs most probably to the far.ily of Sapindacea, 

 and as has been remarked by R •xburgh comes very near to Gelonium 



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