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LEGUMINOSiE. CCXCIV, Palovea. CCXCV. Aloexylon. CCXCVL Amaria, &c. 



rica, and the French in Canada pickle them. The wood is of precious jewels that are wrought in the East Indies. It was 

 the same colour and texture as that of the first species. The formerly deemed in that part of the world of greater value than 



gold, and various fables have been invented as to the origin of 

 the tree that yields it. Sonie have feigned that it grew in Para- 

 dise, and that it was conveyed from thence by the rivers, which 

 overflowed their banks, and swept off the trees in their way. 

 Others pretend that it grows on inaccessible mountains, where it 

 is guarded by wild beasts. The calambac or eagle-wood should 

 not be confounded with the aloes-wood. See Aquilaria. 

 Agallocha or Aloes-wood. Tree 60 feet. 

 Cult. For culture and propagation see Bauhinia^ p. 463. 



legumes stand on a long pedicel, and are apiculated at the apex 

 by a longer style. The young branches dye wool of a very 

 fine colour. The tree is called red-bud in America. 



Var. /3, pubescens (Pursh, fl. amer. sept. p. 308.) leaves pu- 

 bescent beneath. 



Cawac^zan Judas-tree. Fl. May 

 to 20 feet. 



Clt. 1730. Tree 12 



Cult. These trees are usually planted with other flowering 

 trees and shrubs as ornaments to pleasure grounds, and for their 

 singular beauty deserve a place in every garden and shrubbery ; 

 for when the trees have arrived at a pretty good size the 

 branches are so thickly beset with flowers as scarcely to be seen. 



and the singular shape of their leaves makes a very agreeable 

 variety in summer. They are generally raised from seeds, which 

 should be sown about the end of March on a bed of light earth ; 



CCXCVL AMA^RIA (meaning unknown). Seb. Mutis in 

 sem. nuev. gran. 1810. p. 25. D. C. prod. 2. p. 519. 



LiN. SYST. Monadelphia, Decdndria. Calyx cylindrical, 

 rounded at the base, permanent, 5-cleft ; lobes linear, cohering 



„ - at the apex, and dehiscent on the sides. Petals 5, equal, oh- 



they may also be propagated by layers, but plants raised from ovate, spreading, keeled from the base to the apex. Stamens 

 seeds thrive best. 10, subulate, erect, monadelphous at the base. Ovary oblong, 



stipitate ; stipe adnate to the calyx. Style filiform, crowned by 

 a capitate stigma. Legume very long, compressed, pedicellate, 

 torose at the seeds, 1 -celled, 2-valved, dehiscent Seeds many, 

 roundish, compressed. — American shrubs, with simple cordate 

 leaves. This genus is unknown to European botanists, but it 

 appears to be allied to Jonesiay from the stipitate ovary, and in 

 the stipe adhering to the calyx. 



1 A, petiola'ta (Seb. Mutis. 1. c.) leaves petiolate ; flowers 

 terminal, fj . S. Native of New Granada, in the temperate 



CCXCIV. PALO^VEA (an alteration from the Guiana name 



of the shrub). Aubl. guian. 1. p. 3Q5. t. 141. Lam. ill. t. 323. 

 D. C. prod. 2. p. 518. — Ginnania, Scop. exSchreb. gen. no. G91. 

 Neck. elem. no. 1285. 



LiN. sYST. Ennedndria, Monogynia. Bracteoles 2 under the 

 calyx, joined into a 2-lobed involucel; tube of calyx obco- 

 nical, exserted from the involucel, with a 4-5-lobed limb ; lobes 

 spreading. Petals 3-4, deciduous, the inner one bearing some- 

 thing like a sterile anther. Stamens 9, exserted beyond the 

 tube of the calyx ; filaments free, very long, subulate, replicate 

 before the expansion of the flowers, as in the order Melastomd- 

 c€i^. Anthers when young linear, 2-celled, straight, fixed by 

 the middle. Ovary stipitate, linear, compressed. Style filiform, 

 glabrous, biplicate when young, crowned by a roundish stigma. 

 Legume (ex Aubl.) oblong, compressed, 2-valved, 1-celled, 6-7- 

 seeded. — A shrub, with alternate, elliptic, quite entire, glabrous 

 leaflets, which are acuminated at both ends, and pedicellate 

 flowers, which are disposed in umbels at the tops of the branches. 

 Pedicels bracteate. 



1 P. Guiank'nsis (Aubl. 1. c.) Tj . S. Native of Guiana, in 

 woods. Corolla red. 



Guiana Palovea. Shrub 5 to 6 feet. 



Cult. For culture and propagation see Bauhiniay p. 463. 



parts. 



PetiolateAesiyed Amaria. 



Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 



2 A. sEssiLiFOLiA (Scb. Mutis. 1. c.) leaves sessile, almost, 

 stem-clasping; flowers axillary ; peduncles many-flowered. ^. 

 S. Native of New Granada, in temperate places- 



Sessile-leaved Amaria. Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 



Cult. For culture and propagation see Bauhiniay p. 463. 



CCXCVIT. BOWDrCHIA (in honour of T. E. Bowdich, who 

 was sent on a mission to Ashantee in Western Africa). H. B. et 

 Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 6. p. 376. D. C. prod. 2. p. 519. 



Lin. SYST. Decdndria, Monogynia. Calyx turbinately cara- 

 panulate, 5-toothed; teeth acute, erect, 2 superior ones approxi^ 

 mate. Petals 5, free, disposed in a kind of papilionaceous man- 

 ner, lateral ones the longest. Stamens 10? free. Legume sti- 



10-ovulate, compressed, membranous, winded on the 



CCXCV. ALOFXYLON (from aXo//, aloe, of Dioscorides, P'^^^^. - - SV\ • '^ i : r, u ^ ...;^ht 



xne Aloe, and IvXov, xylm, wood ; this tree produces the aloes- gemmiferous suture, 1-celled,^ mdehiscent. Ernbryo straight. 



»ood of the ,hops). Lour, cochin, p. S67. D. C. prod. 2. ^ ""f.™\* ''«: "'''\™P.f ^ P™^f . '^^^^^^ 



p. 518. 



Lm. SYST. Decdndriat Monogynia. Calyx of 4 sepals or 4- 

 parted ; sepals acute, deciduous, lower one falcate, incurved, 

 nearly twice the length of the rest. Petals 5, unequal, longer 

 than the calyx. Stamens 10, distinct. Ovary compressed, 

 curved. 



tomentum beneath, as also the branches. 



Flowers violaceous 



Native of 



seeded. 



Style filiform. Legume woody, smooth, falcate, 1- 

 Seed oblong, curved, arillate. — A tree, with erect 

 branches, simple, alternate, lanceolate, quite entire, petiolate 

 leaves, and terminal flowers. This genus is hardly known. 



1 A. Agallochum (Lour. 1. c.) ^ . G. Native of Cochin- 

 china, on the highest mountain^, and the Mol 

 Rumph. amb. 2. p. 29. t. 9. ex Lour. Cynometra Agallocha, 

 Spreng- syst. 2. p. 327. The wood is white and scentless, and 



P 



perfume. Aloes-wood is held in high 

 I account of its fragrant odour as a per- 

 fume, for which purpose it is applied to clothes and apartments, 

 and as a cordial medicine in fainting fits, and in cases of para- 

 lytic affection. By the Chinese and Heathen Moors it was used 

 as incense in their sacrifices ; and employed for setting the most 



1 B. viRciLioiDEs (H. B. et Kunth, 1. c.) ^ . S. 

 South America, near Barbula, Lavilla del Pao, and at the mouth 

 of the Orinoco, where it is commonly called Alcornoco. Leaflets 

 13, lanceolate-oblong, obtuse at both ends. 



Virgilia-liJce Bowdichia. Tree. 



Cult. For culture and propagation see Bauhtnta, p. ^^^' 



CCXCVIIL CRU^DYA (— Crudy, the name of a person who 

 communicated the first specimen of the tree to Schreber). VVilld. 

 spec. 2. p. 539. D. C. prod. 2. p. 519.— Criidya et Cyclas, 

 Schreb. gen, no. 711. and 712.— Apalatoa, Touchiroa, Vouran^ 

 and Pariv6a species, Aubl. guian. Touchiroa, Rich, mss 

 Waldschmidtia, Neck. elem. no. 1445. 



LiN. SYST. Octo-Decdndria, Monogynia. Calyx bibracteate 

 at the base, with the tube short and obconical, and the hm^ 

 4-cleft and spreading. Petals wanting. Stamens 8-10, exsertea 

 from the tube of the calyx, long, free, rather dilated at the base. 



