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leaves 4"-3" diam., coriaceous, glabrous above, slightly puberulous on the nerves beneath and 

 glabrescent, rusty -coloured : nerves immersed above, prominent beneath : petiole 2"-l" long ; 

 racemes elongated, often compound at the base ; flowers nodding, " odorous," 6'" long : pe- 

 dicel 2'" long ; buds ovate, striate, contracted at the minutely denticulate top ; calyx 3'" long : 

 lips shorter than the ventricose tube, one 2-, the other 3-denticulate ; petals obovate-oblong ; 

 ovary villous, sessile ; legume curved, flat-compressed, sericeous, shortly stipitate, apiculate, 

 H" long. — Hab. Trinidad!, Cr., atlrais; [Panama!]. 



70. ETABALLIA, Benth. 



" Calyx tubular, shortly 5-dentate to subbilabiate. Petals 5, inserted near the base of the 

 calyx-tube. Stamens 10, monadelphous. Ovary subsessile : stigma obliquely capitate. 

 Legume . . . . — Trees ; leaflets single, penninerved ; flowers spicate." 



194. E. macrophylla, Benth. " Leaves large, blunt ; spikes, very large." — "Leaves 

 coriaceous, glabrous, 8"-9" long ; petals linear." — Hab. S. Vincent (Benth), 



71. PRIORIA, Gr. 



Calyx surrounded by a minute, slightly bilobed involucel, coloured, 5-partite. Petals 0. 

 Stamens 10, distinct. Ovary sessile, 1-ovulate : disc filling up the calyx-tube. Legume 

 . • . . — A tree : habit of Copaifera ; leaves abruptly pinnate, pellucid-dotted : leaflets large, 

 2-1 -jugal ; flowers in compound spikes. 



This new genus is dedicated to Dr. Alexander Prior, one of the chief promoters of this 

 Flora. The affinity of Prior ia with Copaifera is obvious, and traces of a ring (comparable to 

 the involucel of the former) exist at the base of the ebracteate calyx of the latter. The calyx 

 of Prioria might easily be taken for a corolla : but the correct view of the structure seems 

 to result from the involucel being free from the calyx-tube, the perigynous insertion of the 

 stamens, the inferior fifth calyx-segment (which is exterior in the bud), and the homologous 

 organs of Copaifera. 



195. P. copaifera, Gr. A very large, spreading, glabrous tree; leaves evergreen, co- 

 riaceous : leaflets 4 (-2), obliquely elliptical or elliptical-oblong, petiolulate, bluntish, reticu- 

 lated with prominulous veins on both sides, 6"-4" long, 4"-2" broad : common petiole 1" 

 between, 8' -6'" long below the pairs, petiolules thickish, 3'" long ; panicles terminal, 

 subfascicled, usually large, 1' long, interrupted, the alternate subsessile spikes being 4"'-6'" 

 distant from each other, and 4" (-2") long : flowers clustered or solitary, and about V" distant 

 from each other, supported by a very minute roundish bract ; involucel exceeding the bract, 

 g-"' long : lobes broadly rounded or subtruncate ; calyx-tube turbinate, exceeding the invo- 

 lucel, sessile, V" long ; segments oval, ciliate, equal, imbricate, 1'" long, half as long as the 

 hairy equal filaments ; anthers incumbent, oval-oblong : cells distinct, curved ; ovary hairy, 

 sessile above the calyx-tube, obliquely ovate, £ as long as the filiform style : stigma minute : 

 ovule hanging from the upper part of the suture, hemitropous. — Hab. Jamaica !, Wilt., 

 rare at Bachelor's Hall, near Bath. 



72. COPAIFERA, L. 



Calyx coloured, 4-partite. Petals 0. Stamens 10, distinct. Legume stipitate, obliquely 

 ovoid, coriaceous, bivalved, 1-seeded. Radicle inferior. — Trees ; leaves pinnate, often pellu- 

 cid-dotted ; flowers in compound, spiciform racemes. 



196. C. officinalis, Jacq. {Anter. Pict. p. 67). Leaves abruptly pinnate : leaves 5-1- 

 jugal, coriaceous, unequal-sided, obliquely ovate, with a bluntish point, glabrous, pellucid- 

 dotted ; racemes slightly puberulous ; legume ovoid-globose, slightly compressed, glabrous : 

 carpophore very short. — Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. 128. — C. 3acqmm,*Desf — A high tree; leaf- 

 lets 3" (-1") long, usually alternate, one of the uppermost often abortive ; calyx white, 2'" 

 long. — Hab. S. Vincent I, Guild.; Trinidad!, Sieb. Trin. 55, Cr.; [Venezuela]. 



73. CRUDYA, W. 



Calyx-tube turbinate : limb 4-partite. Petals 0. Stamens 8-10, distinct, inserted with 



