et Species Plantarum” of Humboldt and Bonpland (vol. vi. 
312), but differs from Jacquin’s (a native of the same 
country) in the more copious inflorescence, much larger 
leaflets, longer pedicels and flowers, glabrous bracteoles and 
calyx, and other characters. It is remarkable that so con- 
spicuous a species, and coming from so well-known a country, 
should be hitherto undescribed. I have named it after its 
very intelligent and active discoverer, who well merits being 
associated by name with so handsome a plant. 
Dezscr. Small glabrous tree, with terete glabrous extre- 
mities. eaves equally pinnate; rachis four to six inches 
long, slender, subterete ; leaflets in three or four pairs, upper 
larger, broadly oblanceolate, abruptly acuminate, nar- 
rowed to the base, about six inches long ; lowest pair ovate- 
lanceolate acuminate, three to four inches long, all shortly 
petiolulate. Racemes terminal, subsessile, drooping, half a foot 
long, many-flowered ; bracts and flowers deep rose-coloured, 
or calyx scarlet on first emerging from the bract. Pedicels 
slender, minutely puberulous, one half to three-quarters 
of an inch long. Bracteoles connate in a tubular 2-lobed 
_involucre sheathing the calyx-tube, one to two inches long. 
Calye with a narrow cylindrical tube equalling the involucre ; 
limb 5-fid, lobes oblanceolate-linear, sheathing the corolla, 
with the tube two to three inches in length. Petals five, 
oblanceolate or spathulate, gradually narrowed into a long 
claw, considerably exceeding the calyx, varying to two and a 
half inches in length. Stamens ten, monadelphous, alternately 
shorter. Ovary, narrow, puberulous, tapering into the long 
style; gynophore adnate to the ealyx-tube.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower, the calyx-lobes and petals removed; 2, pistil :—both 
magnified, 
