Tab. 7582. 



CAMPTOSEMA pinnatum. 



Native of Brazil. 



Nat Ord. Leguminos^e. — Tribe Phaseole^e. 



Genus OaMPTOsema, Hook. & Am.; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. 



p. 536.) 



G&mptqsfma pinnaium ; frutex 3-5-pedalis, parce ramosus, glaberrimus, foliis 

 alteniis pefciolatis 16-18 poll, longis ; foliolis 3-jugis cum impari, 6-7 poll, 

 longis, petiolulatis, ovatis, caudato-acuminatis, petiolo basi incrassato, 

 racemo brevi densifloro, rhachi robusto, rioribus breviterpedicellatis fascicu- 

 latis nutantibus, calyce § poll, longo late tubuloso basi rotundato glabro, 

 dentibuB brevissimis latis obtusis, vexillo 2-pollicari oblongo obtuso 

 complicato in unguem i poll, longum angustato nee appendicnlato nee basi 

 calloso, alis vexillo fere aequilongis falcato-oblongis obtusis basi cuneatis 

 longe unguiculatis, carinas petalis vexillo sequilongie sed angustioribus 

 rectis, staminibus monadelphis vexillari a basi soluto, antheris linearibus, 

 ovario longinscule stipitato glabro 8-10-ovulato, stylo gracili recto, 

 stigmate capitellato, legumine plano-compresso 7 poll, longo 2 poll, lato, 

 seminibns pollicaribus reniformibns. 



C. ? pinnatum, Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. vol. xv. para. I. p. 325. Wawra, 

 Bot. Frgebn. Max. I. p. 6, t. 33. 



Piscidia erythrina, Veil. Fl. Flum. vol. vii. t. 100, text. 304 (non Linn.). 



GoKANl-timbo, Bras. 



Camptosema is a genus of ten tropical South American 

 species, belonging to the subtribe Qalactiem of Phaseolese, 

 closely allied to Ganavalia and Pueraria. One species has 

 been figured in this work, tab. G. rubicundum, Hook. & 

 Arn. (tab. 6808) a handsome climber, with small trifoliolate 

 leaves, and with long racemes of ruby-red flowers, not 

 half the size of those of C. pinnatum. 



C. pinnatum is a native of shady woods, banks of rivers, 

 &c, in the Province of Miuas Geraes, Brazil. 



The accompanying figure was made from a plant raised 

 from seed sent in 1888 by Dr. Glaziou, Director of the 

 Botanical Gardens of Rio de Janeiro, to the Royal Gardens, 

 Kew, which flowered in the Palm House in July, 1897. 



Descr. — A woody shrub, three to five feet high, glabrous 

 in all its parts. Leaves one to one and a half feet long, 

 alternate, shortly petioled ; leaflets three pairs and a ter- 

 minal, shortly petiolulate, drooping, six to seven inches long 

 Makch 1st, 1898. 



