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downwards from the subtruncate top, rectilinear on the upper margin : longitudinal diameter 

 of the carpid exceeding the breadth of the wing-base. — Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. 261.,/! 56 : 

 flower and samara. Plum. ed. Burnt, t. 247. /. 1. — S. volubilis, L. (ex cit. Plum., exclus. 

 syn. Jacq.) ; Mey. PI. Esseq.! : Burmann says, in the description of Plumier's plant, " Fru- 

 ticosa, sarmentosa, scandens," which is not opposed to Jacquin's " rami graciles, longi, 

 debiles." — A straight-growing shrub, 10'-15' high, with a rich inflorescence of usually 

 elongated, many-flowered, terminal and axillary racemes; leaves H"-3" long, usually 

 tapering towards the top, pointed or blunt : veins prominent on both sides ; flowers 5"' 

 long, purple {Jacq. : but violet in his figure) or rosy {Kegel) ; wing of the samara about 

 1"' broad at its base, 3"'-4'" at the top : appendage minute, bluntish. — Hab. Trinidad !, 

 Or., in rocky woods, and among shrubs ; [S. Thomas to Guiana !, Panama ! to equatorial 

 Brazil!]. 



10. S. virgata, Sw. Scandent ; leaves roundish, glabrous ; racemes terminal, filiform, 

 cernuous ; flowers distant, variegated ; inferior sepals ovate-oblong, blunt ; wings orbicular, 

 equalling the shortly bilobed keel ; appendage of the keel ciliate-crenate or subentire, 

 equalling the lobes ; posterior petals obovate ; " samara rectilinear from the rounded top 

 to the middle, and below it tapering to the base : longitudinal diameter of the carpid ex- 

 ceeding the breadth of the wing-base." — Plum. ed. Barm. t. 248./. 1 ; Tuss. PL 4. t. 20. — 

 Sec. n. 1, Br. Jam. S. scandens, Tuss. {non Jacq. nee Lam). — A high climber: branches 

 slender and ending with a number of delicate, racemiferous branchlets, which are about one 

 foot long ; leaves 8"'-10'" diam., rounded at both ends or subemarginate, those of the 

 flowering branchlets much smaller ; flowers odorous, 4'" long : the wings rosy on the out- 

 side, white within, and the corolla yellow. The description of the fruit is taken from 

 Tussac's figures, representing excellently the habit of our Cuba specimens. — Hab. Jamaica 

 (Sw.) ; [Cuba ! to Portorico !]. 



11. S. Iiamarckii, Gr. . Scandent; leaves ovate or oval, puberulous and glabrescent 

 beneath; racemes simple, for, axillary and terminal; flowers red; inferior sepals ovate, 

 blunt; wings orbicular, a little exceeding the bilobed keel; appendage of the keel denticu- 

 late, equalling the lobes ; posterior petals spathulate, blunt; samara puberulous : curved on 

 the anterior margin from the rounded top towards the rectilinear base, posterior margin 

 more straightish, tapering at the base; carpid reticulate: its longitudinal diameter ex- 

 ceeding the breadth of the wing-base.— Lam. III. t. 599./. 1.— S. scandens, Lam. (non 

 Jacq.). S. virgata, Sieb., Martin., n. 327 ! (non Sw). — A climber; leaves l£"-2" long, 

 blunt or pointed ; racemes scattered : flowers distant, 5"' long, rosy, " not odorous " (Lam.) ; 

 samara H" long, 1'" broad at the base of the wing (narrow part only a few lines long), 5'" 

 broad towards the top : wing inserted on the top of the ovoid carpid, which is lined on the 

 anterior margin only with the narrow appendage : the reticulation of the carpid formed by a 

 few prominent lines on the sides. — Hab. Jamaica !, Macf. ; S. Vincent !, Guild. ; [Cuba !, 

 Martinique!]. 



12. S. Brownii, Gr. Scandent; leaves oval or oblong, blunt, minutely puberulous, 

 membranaceous; racemes lax, corymbose; flowers variegated; inferior sepals ovate, 

 rounded ; wings orbicular, equalling the shortly bilobed keel ; appendage of the keel 

 exserted, denticulate; posterior petals rounded at the top, oblique and abruptly tapering 

 downwards, exceeded a little by the keel ; samara oblong, a little curved towards the 

 rounded top ; carpid even : lonaitudinal diameter equalling the breadth of the wing- 

 base. — Sec. m. 2, Br. Jam. S. virgata, Macf. ! (non Sw.).~A high climber (30'-40' high), 

 with a showy inflorescence ; leaves 1"-!$" long, of variable breadth, puberulous under the 



. . wing -. 



the whole posterior margin of the ovoid carpid : Appendage rounded, situated at the upper 

 end of its anterior margin.— Hab. Jamaica!, Macf, Pd., JL, March, common on the 

 limestone-formation of the southern districts ; [Haiti !]. 



5. KRAMERIA, L. 

 Sepals 5-4, corolline. Petals 5, smaller, asymmetrical, the three posterior usually con- 

 nected. Stamens 4 (or fewer), posterior : anthers 2-celled, dehiscent by pores. Pistil 



