523 
Placenta, or ele few and erect: style oceasionally divided'sstig- 
‘ma simple or divided: fruit either dehiscing into 2 Covel ‘or 
Lindehiscent and dry or succulent, sometimes many-celled: em- 
“bryo small, surrounded by horny or fleshy albumen. 
GENUS I. NAUCLEA. 
Pentandria Monogynis. Ba Syst: 
Deriv. From Naus,. a ship, and: Kleio, to enclose, alluding ta. 
the half-capsule which is: hull-shaped. 
Gen. Cuar. Unarmed trees or shribs :'leaves opposite: or 3-4- 
-verticillate, petioled: or sessile ; stipules deciduous : - partial. pedun- 
‘eles terminal at the end of the branches or at the extremity of 2- 
‘leaved terminal or axillary! general peduncles, bearing each one glo- 
bose head of sessile flowers: bracts-or floral leaves at the end of the 
general peduncle, none at the base of the head: paleae or bracteoles 
among the flowers linear: calyx-tube oblong: limb truncated or 5- 
partite with linear lobes: corolla infundibuliform, with a slender 
tube and naked throat: lobes 5, patent, oval-oblong : anthers in- 
eluded or protruded, shorter - than the ‘petals: style’ protruding : 
stigma oblong or ovate; tumid, undivided: capsules 2-celled, . sessile 
-aupon a receptacle: seeds several, imbricated, winged or with a gland 
vat the hilum: embryo. inverted in a fleshy albumen. 
‘() N. PARYIFOBIA, (Rozb.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod: I. p. 391.—Roxb.' ft. Ind. T. p. 313—— 
Dec. prod. IV. p. 334. 
Syn. N. parviflora, Pers.—N. Orientalis, Linn.—Cephalanthua 
piluliter, Zam. Dec. 1. ¢. p. 539. 
Engraw. Roxb. Cor. I. t.52.—Wight’s Ill. IL. ¢. 123. 
‘Spec. Cuar. ‘Pree: branches . brachiate : stipules. oval : ‘leaves. 
petioled, ovate or obovate-obtuse, with a bluntish. point : general 
peduncles opposite, terminal, resembling and often passing. into. 
flower-bearing shoots and’ having. a pair of small deciduous leaves: 
partial ones scarcely se: long as the globbse head of flowers, the ter~ 
minal one on the branch usually without a general one: limb of the 
ealyx very short and almost truncated : anthers | shortly protruded : 
Stigma - narrow-oblong, cup-shaped : capsules. containing 2 cocci 
splitting at the inner angle: flowers yellow. 
Common throughout India, flowering nearly all the year. 
(2) N. corpironia. (Roxb.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 391.—Roxb. fl. Ind. I. p. s4— 
Dec. prod. IV. p. 346. 
Engrav. Roxb, Cor, E. t. 538, 
