304 ME. M. p. EDGEWOBTn ON THE ELOEA OF BAS^DA. 



opposite the existing five will be more developed, in compensation 

 perhaps for the great development of the corolla." 



As regards the one-celled anthers of Moringa^ we find them in 

 Jacaranda^ Colea, and still more general in the allied Cyrtandracece \ 

 in fact the anthers of Isanthera and JDidymocarptis are identical 

 with those of Moringa. 



The tricarpellary fruit of the Moringa presents no greater diffi- 

 culty than the case of dicarpellary fruit of Affonsea in Legumi- 

 nosce ] nor can it be thought strange that flowers formed on a 

 quinary type should have any number of carpels below six ; and 

 although among corollifloral orders a tricarpellary ovary is not 

 common, yet it occurs in Solanece^ Folemoniacece^ &c., and I have 

 observed the same frequently in the genus Gesneria. Aceracea 

 have a two-celled fruit ; and they are closely related to Sapinda- 

 C€<ewith a three-celled fruit. 



For the reasons stated I have come to the conclusion that Mo- 

 ringa should be placed in the Bignonieal alliance. 



If the structure of the foliage, the seed, and the seed-vessel is 

 important, we find that in this point there is a wonderful cor- 

 respondence, and that the apparent discrepancies are greatest in 

 points of least importance. Such is the perfect union of the coroDa 



are free. 



Moringa 



It may well be a question, under the above view, why Willde- 

 now should have placed the genus Anoma of Loureiro under 

 Ily per anther a, had there not been a sufficient number of resem- 



Mo) 



Were 



Moringa 



a still closer resemblance to the Bignoniacece. 

 "What is the Trigonocarpus of Wallich ? wl 

 amonc: the BianoniacecB. 



Florula of Banda. By M. P. EDOEWoiAH, Esq., F.L.S. 



[K^ad 



I BEG leave to lay before the Society a list of plants collected by 

 me during a residence in the district of Banda in Bundelcund, 

 during the years 1817-8-9, almost exactly two years. 

 , This list was originally published as an appendix to a statistical 

 report called for by the Government, and printed in the ' Journal 



