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CALY Cl FLORAE. 
1 . Spathelia simplex. Mountain-pride. 
Leaves about 20-35 -paired, leaflets oblong. 
Aceri aut Paliuro affinis arbor caudice non ramoso,'foliis sorbi, 
floribus purpureis, Sloane, II. t. 171. — Spathelia simplex, Bot. 
Reg. t. 670 — Gcertn. Fruct. I. 278. t. 58. 
HAB- Common in the lower mountain districts, particularly 
of a limestone formation. 
FL. Summer months. 
A tree, 20-30 feet in height, simple, not branched, terete, 
scarred, bearing the leaves and flowers at its extremity, where 
it is ferrugineo-tomentulose. Leaves 3-4 feet in length, im- 
pari-pinnated : leaflets 3-6 inches long (those at the centre of 
the leaf being the largest), about 30-paired, subopposite, 
shortly petiolulated, oblong, acuminate with the apex incrassated 
and bluntish, unequal at the base, nerved and veined, minutely 
stellato-puberulous especially above : common petiole 3-gonal, 
channelled above, thickened at the insertion, ferrugineo-puberu- 
lous : petiolules terete, stellato-puberulous. Raceme panicled, 
subterminal, 4-6 feet in height: flower-stalk very much 
branched, angulose, deep purple, stellato-puberulous : flowers 
numerous, of a crimson lilac colour, on short filiform pubescent 
pedicels. Calycine sepals 5, oblong, blunt, minutely ciliated 
and puberulous externally, coloured, membranaceous. Petals 
twice the length of the sepals, oblong, subacute. Filaments 5, 
dilated and internally villous at the base : anthers large in pro- 
portion, oblong. Ovary 3-gonal, minutely puberulous : style 
O : stigmata 3, minute, spreading. 
This is one of the most beautiful and showy of our native 
plants. During the summer months it is a conspicuous object 
in the mountain’s woods, rising with a straight simple stem 
above the surrounding shrubs and lowly trees, crowned with a 
circle of leaves, and adorned with a magnificent plume of 
bright purple flowers. This tree commences flowering in the 
5-7th year, and, after that, continues to do so annually. 
XI. SURIANA. 
Calyx 5-partite. Petals 5, liypogynous or inserted 
at the base of the calyx. Stamens 5-10 with some 
of them usually abortive. Carpels 5, bearing a fili- 
form style from their inner side, terminating in a cori- 
aceous valveless indehiscent nut. Seed single, obo- 
vato-reniform, exalbuminous; embryo replicate ; radi- 
cle terete, directed downward ; cotyledons plane, 
incumbent . — De Cand. 
Name, in honour of Joseph Donat Surian. 
