all)!s, apice pvrpureo-no/atis. Staiw. diadelpha, rfflexa ; fil. allerum luhttlo' 

 sum cnntpres-yum pro i parte longUudinis S-Jidum rvhescens dorso apertuni^ 

 alterum simplex Jissur<e postic^e prions accumbens revolutum: anth. incum- 

 benteSf breves^ obtongce, subfuscescentes ; pollen^owam. Germ, lineari-sudle- 

 Iragonutn, angulis rotundalis, utroque tateri sulco medio exaratum, duplo 

 longius cnlyce v. vitrei: stylus subi^quaUs germini v. longior, teres, ubevns in 

 utigmtL anguste cuneatiim transverse planum apice trunca turn, svmmo margiiie 

 lantiginosum, subtus concavtusculum, hegum.coriac€0-cartJlagi}teu7n,Juscu7nt 

 glabrum^ semipedalc, vix semanciam latum, lineari-elongatum , 2-valve, com- 

 presso-tetragonum angulis in aciem brevissimam cariilagineo-coriaceam undula' 

 tarn attenuatis, latere utroqve planum indeque vix latius guam ad ventrem et 

 dorsum qucE ambo itivicem cequuata, acuttiinatum, stvlo persistente cuspidatuvi, 

 glnbrato-midtiloculare dissepiment is membra naceo-cellulosis. Sem. 13, (Jide 

 Plumieri et Dom. Herbert) vix piso media magniittdinis majora^ Jitsco-ful- 

 vescentia. 



A species first obsei-ved by Plumier in the Island of St. 

 Domingo; but though figured and described by him as far 

 back as the year 1693, had never been incorporated with any 

 general system of vegetables, until comprised by Persoon 

 in liis " Synopsis;" where it seems to have been determined 

 from a sample collected at Porto Rico by Monsieur Turpin. 



At the end of the supplement to the second volume of the 

 History of the plants of Cayenne, by Aublet, that author has 

 inserted a catalogue of the indigenous as well as exotic 

 vegetables which he obsei*ved in the Isle of France during 

 a stay he made there. This is indeed no more than a bare 

 list of names, the synonyms from Rumphius's work being 

 in great part, if not throughout, erroneous, and it would have 

 been utterly useless, had not the original samples been pre- 

 served in the Banksian Herbarium under corresponding 

 titles. Among these samples is one of the present species, 

 which has however in the arrangement of that invaluable 

 Herbarium been confounded with one of Dolichos tetrago- 

 noluhusj from the East Indies ; a species which may be seen 

 to diifer from the present at a glance, by a pod with 4 broad 

 membranous curiously curled wings at the 4 corners, and 

 by leaves where the leaflets are long-pointed and the lateral 

 ones of the same shape as the terminal one. The list being 

 composed indiscriminately of exotic and indigenous plant* 

 cannot be relied on as any authority in regard to their 

 origin; and all we derive from this source is, that Aublet 

 observed and collected a plant of the present species in the 

 Isle of France. 



The drawing was made from a plant first introduced by 

 Mr. Herbert, and raised in his hothouse at Spofforth, from 

 West Indian seed. Of two samples that gentleman kindly 



