the Leguminosaa led him to identify an Argentine plant, 

 with the supposed Mexican Piscidia of Cavanilles, and 

 Daubentonia of De Candolle, and refer it to its proper 

 genus Sesbania. This is in Martius' " Flora Brasiliensis," 

 where S. punicea is stated to extend from the Rio Grande 

 do Sul in Brazil southward to Buenos Ayres, and westwards 

 to the Parana river. According to a statement in the 

 Kew Herbarium it occurs frequently on river banks. 



Seeds of S. punicea were obligingly sent to the Royal 

 Gardens by A. Christie, Esq., of Trinity Lodge, Forest 

 Hill, in 1889 ; from these plants were raised and placed in 

 the Temperate House, where the specimen here figured 

 flowered in October, 1893. 



Descr. — A laxly branched glabrous bush or small tree, 

 with slender terete branches, drooping leaves, and racemes 

 of large orange-red flowers. Leaves six to eight inches 

 long ; short petiole and long rachis very slender ; leaflets, 

 eight to fifteen pairs with an odd one, opposite, subsessile, 

 oblong or obovate-oblong, tip rounded, apiculate, nerves 

 spreading; stipules setaceous, caducous. Flowers large, 

 in a drooping, shortly peduncled raceme six to ten 

 inches long, scarlet in bud, but paleing as they open to 

 orange ; bracteoles setaceous ; pedicels one-fourth to half 

 an inch long. Calyx turbinate, truncate, very shortly 

 lobed. Standard orbicular, nearly an inch broad, recurved. 

 H nigs two-thirds of an inch long, oblong, obtuse. Keel- 

 petals as long as the wings, strongly falcate, claws very 

 long; hmb oblong, obtuse. Ovary slender, strongly in- 

 curved, style long, stigma terminal. Legume stipitate, two 

 to four inches long, acuminate, 4-angled ; angles with 

 coriaceous wings. Seeds 4 to 10, globoselv reniform.— 

 J.D.B. ° J 



Z*S5 \ F j 0Vf . e J s ^ the P etaIa removed; 2, keel-petal ; 3, pistil -.-all en- 

 uugca j 4, tnut and 5, transverse section of do. (from Herbarium specimen) 

 V] the natural sizt>. v r 



