FAGK^A COEOMANDELINA. (Nat. order Loganiacese.) 



FAGK.EA. Thunh.—Gr'EK. CHAR. Calyx 5-cIeft, segments imbricate, corol-tube usually expanding at the top into a campanulate throat, 

 the limb spreading often oblique, lobes 5 rather unequal imbricate in the bud. Stamens 5 usually shortly exserted, ovary more or less completely 2 or 

 rarely 3-celled, the placentas often not meeting in the centre at least at an early stage, ovules several to each cell or placenta, style single with a peltate 

 stigma, fruit succulent indehiscent, seed immersed in pulp, albumen copious, embryo very small. Trees or Bhrubs, leaves thick coriaceous, flowers large 

 showy in terminal raceme-like or corymbose panicles, rarely reduced to a single flower, bracts small with 2 bracteoles under the calyx. 



FAGRiEA COROMANDELINA. (Wight.) A small tree quite glabrous, leaves succulent thick spathulato-oblonS 

 rounded or retuse at the apex, 4-6 inches long by 2-3 broad, petioles winged 3-4 lines long, stipules interfoliaceous closely embracing 

 the stem, peduncles terminal usually 3 from the end of the branch each with 3 flowers, flowers white, calyx with 2 small bracteoles below 

 its base, lobes rounded, corol 3-3£ inches long infundibuliform, lobes rounded \\ inch long revolute entire or slightly crenulate at the 

 margins, anthers oblong deeply lobed at the base with the filament attached between the lobes, filaments adnate to the centre of the 

 tube of the corol, style exserted, stigma large peltate, fruit oval shining and very smooth about 1 J inch long pointed with the persistent 

 base of the style, 2-celled, filled with fleshy pulp in which the numerous small seeds lie, seeds subreniform with a pit at the hilum, testa 

 scrobiculate, albumen copious, embryo terete, radicle superior. Wight Icones lab. 1316. 



A small tree with very large showy flowers, common throughout the western, forests of this Presidency from scarcely any elevation up to 

 nearly 6000 feet. I am not aware of any use that the tree is put to, but it is well worth cultivating for ornament. The species is probably identical 

 with F. obovata of Wallich, or at least only a variety of it. 



Analysis. 



1. A flower opened, showiug the insertion of the stamens. 



2. Anthers, front and back view. 



3. Calyx showing the 2 -bracteoles, style and stigma. 



4. Nearly ripe fruit. 



5. Transverse section of the same, showing the 2 cells and very numerous seeds, 



6. A seed (uatural size.) 



7. A seed magnified. 



8. Yertical section of the same. 



9. Embryo. 



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