104 PLANTS OF PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND. 



Urena. 



Urena lobata, Willd. 3, p. 800. 



Pretty common among underwood, on the plain, and also 

 on the top of the hill. Flowers in May. 



GOEDONIA. 



Gordonia spectabilis, H. (No doubt Schima noronhac Burm.) 



Arboreous ; Leaves oblong ovate, pointed, subserrate, 

 smooth; Flowers short, peduncled, Style one. Stem : arbore- 

 ous, straight ; branches ascending. Leaves, scattered, oblong- 

 ovate, pointed, subserrate, above glossy, beneath smooth. 

 Petioles short, slender, half round, reclining. Peduncles 

 axillary, short, clubbed, solitary, one flowered, spreading. 

 Bracts two, scale form, small, opposite, caducous, a little be- 

 low the middle of the peduncle. Calyx perianth live leafed, 

 leaflets roundish, concave, smooth. Cor : Monopetalous, 

 wheeled, tube very short, limb five parted; segments ovate, 

 concave, widely spreading. Stamens filaments numerous 

 (about 75) awl-shape erect, arising from the tube; shorter than 

 the corol, anthers roundish, twin. Pistil germ roundish, 

 depressed, villous ; Style columnar, four cornered, thicker above ; 

 Stigma flat, five angled. Capsule round, depressed, smooth, 

 five celled, splitting at the top. Seeds two, in each cell, flat. 



DIADBLPHIA— DECANDEIA. 



Abrus. 



Abrus precatorius. Growing among underwood on the plain. 



Pterocarptjs. 



Pterocarpus draco. (Pt. indicus) Lingoum Eumph. 2, p. 205. 

 t. 70. Suna. Mai. 

 Stem arboreous, columnar, very branchy. Branches 

 round, drooping, with a scabrous bark. Leaves alternate, 

 numerous, spreading, pinnated, four pairs with an odd one ; 



Jour. Straits Branch 



