and which I have received from Jamaica, Trinidad, St. 
Vincent’s, and other of the West Indian Islands, whence 
also the seeds were transmitted from which plants were 
raised in the stove of the Botanic Garden of Glasgow. It is 
a plant of considerable elegance of foliage, and bearing its 
copious blossoms for at least nine months out of the twelve. 
Professor De Canpotte’s character of C. calycioides agrees 
as well with our plant, as does that of his C. glandulosa ; 
but the figure of M. Coxzapon has the leaves considerably 
different from ours. 
. Descr. In our stove, this plant forms a shrub four to 
five feet high, clothed with brown bark, and bearing, espe- 
cially at the top, many long, rather straggling and pendent 
branches ; thus, as it were, presenting the graceful foliage 
and ale coloured flowers more immediately to the spec- 
tator. Young branches green and downy. Leaves alter- 
nate, distichous, pinnated with from twelve to eighteen 
pairs of oblong, mucronated, nearly sessile leaflets, oblique 
at the base, marked with closely-placed, oblique veins, 
downy beneath and at the margin with appressed hairs. 
Stipules appressed, broadly subulate, slightly hairy. Pedun- 
cles axillary, two or three rising from the same point, single- 
flowered, and about as long as the flowers, with several 
small, acuminated bracteas at the base, and a pair of oppo- 
site ones a little below the flower. Calyx of five subulate 
leaflets, almost as long as the petals. Petals five, very un- 
equal, spreading, concave, full yellow: four nearly of the 
same size, and obovate, the fifth much larger, obcordate, 
and distinctly clawed. Stamens ten; of which seven are 
short, yellow, and abortive ; three with long purple-brown 
anthers. Germen linear, hairy, gradually attenuated into 
the curved, glabrous style.-—The fruit of our cultivated 
plant I have not seen; but that of my native specimens is 
about an inch and a half long, linear, compressed, dark — 
brown, hairy, with the margins thickened. 
Fig. 1. Base of the Petiole with Leaflets and Glands: magnified. 
