The Natural Hiffory of JAM AIGA. 
Altho’ I have feen this Plane in fome Gardens, as well as fome Sam-. 
ples of ic amongft dry’d Plants by.the Name of Sophera Alpini, yet 1 
think Alpinas’s Figure neither as to the Number of Pinnz, which are even 
in this, nor Length or Figure of the Pod, which are in chisflender, can 
ree to it; add to this, that in the Defcription he fays it had four 
or five Seeds, and this hath many more. What to fay to it IL know 
not ; for C. B. who had the Plant from Bellws and Seeds from Alpizus, 
fays they are the fame; andyet, Bebws fays his differs from Alpinws’s. 
XXII. Sena fparia tetraphylla, filiqna lata compreffa. Cat. Fam. p. 49. 
Raij. Hift. Vol. 3. dendr. p. 111. Tab. 180. Fig. 6 and. 7. 4 
This Shrub, or Tree rifes generally to about five or fix Foot high, altho” 
fometimes I have feen it fifteen Foot high. It has a brown, fhining, 
fmooth Bark, the Stem no bigger than one’s Arm, along which, atan 
Inche’s Diftance, are plac’d winged Leaves, confifting always of two 
Pairs of Pinnx, plac’d on three quarters of an Inch long Footftalks, they 
being fet oppofite one to the other, the firft Pair being fmall, if com- 
par’d with the laft, which is fet about half an Inch further on the fame 
middle Rib, each of thefe Pinnz:being more than an Inch long, half as 
broad, fmooth, of a dark green Colour on the upper Side, having a mid- 
dle and fome tranfverfe Ribs. Ex alis foliorum, and on the Tops 
of the Branches come feveral two Inches long Spikes of Flowers, each of 
which has a fmall three quarters of an Inch long Footftalk, the Flower 
being made up of five capfular green Leaves, five yellow large Petala, 
within which is a crooked or falcated Stylus. The Petala falling off this 
Stylus augments to bea black, fhining, Pod, of about an Inch long, one 
uart-r as broad, on each Side of a yellowifh middle Rib, containing in 
a black fweetifh Pulp, one Row of almoft round, black, fhining, Seeds. 
Ic grows on the Red Hills, on each Side of the Road going to Guanaboa, 
very plentifully, flowering from November to February. 
XXIV. Seva fpuria arborea [piuofa folijs alatis ramofis, feu decompofitis, 
flore ex Luteo c rubro fpeciofo. Cats Fam. p.149. Raijs Vol. 3. p.482. Acacia 
orbis Americani altera, flore pulcher,.tmo. Hort. Reg. Parif: p. 3... Flos Indicus 
cauda pavonis dittus. Vorft. Cat. p. 24. Acactagloriofa infule famaicenfis folijs 
tminoribus fubrotundis {pins ad genscula [bmplicibus floribus flav purpurets. 
Pluken. Alm. p.5. Acacia orientalis gloriofa, colutee folijs, rachi medio ad 
genicula folummodo [pinis gemellis aculeata, Ejufd.ib. An Acacia gloriofa colu- 
tee folio Chinenfis, rachi medio tam ad genicula quam ad internodia,’ Spinis 
curtis duplicatis, deor{um inflexis munito, Ejufd.ib? Ag Acacia gloriofa Spinis 
carens. Ejufd. ib Crifta pavonis flore albo. Aman, Hort. Boj. p. 9. Acacia? coro~ 
wata prima filiquis platiformis atropurpureis, flore coccineo aureo, vulgo poinci- 
lade. Surian, 
Flour fence of Barbados. Wild Sena, o Spanifh Carnations. 
This Tree rifeth to about ten Foot high, with a ftreight Trunc as 
thick as one’s Leg, cover’d witha whitifh fmooth Bark, having here and 
there fome brown Spots onit. The Branches, which are towards the Top, 
are fpread round.on every;Hand, have Prickles, are green, and {u- 
ftain many decompofite winged Leaves, fix or feven Pair of middle Ribs, 
being {et oppofite tooneanother. The Pinne are like Sena Leaves, only 
Amalley and broader at the End, having a very ftrong Smell like Savin. 
The Tops of the Branches are Spikes « of numerous Flowers ftanding 
| round 
Mo.Bot. Garden, 
1902. 
