Tas. 4453 
AMHERSTIA Nosi is. 
Splendid Amherstia. 
Nat. Ord. Leguminosa#. AmuERSTIE®, Benth —DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Sepala 4 basi connata in tubum persistentem apice staminiferum, 
suffultum bracteis duabus oppositis, maximis, sstivatione valvatis. Petala 5 
inzequalia : duo inferiora minuta, subulato-hamosa ; lateralia cuneiformia, diva- 
ricata; supremum maximum patens, obcordatum, unguiculatum. Stamina 
10 diadelpha ; filamentis 9 in tubum longum connatis, superne liberis, alternis 
nanis ; decimum liberum, basi pedicello ovarii accretum. _dnthere versatiles, 
omnes polliniferse, alternz breviores. Ovarium stipitatum, falcatum, 4—6-ovu- 
latum, stipite tubo calycino adnato ; stylus filiformis ; stigma convexum, parvum. 
Legumen pedicellatum, planum, oblongum, polyspermum.—Arbor (Martabanica), 
foliis amplis, pari-pinnatis, 6-8-jugis, floribus speciosis, digestis im racemos masi- 
mos, axillares, pedunculatos, flaccide pendulos. Wall. 
AMHERSTIA nobilis. 
Amuerstta nobilis, Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. v.1. p.1. ¢. 152. Walp. Repert. 
Bot. v. 1. p. 844. 
Ever since the publication of this plant in Dr. Wallich’s noble 
work, the Plant Asiatice Rariores, the greatest desire has been — 
felt by cultivators in Europe to possess it. Dr. Wallich was not — 
backward in procuring plants for the Calcutta Garden, or m 
forwarding others to England, for a long time unsuccessfully 
His Grace the Duke of Devonshire had the honour of im- 
porting the first living plant through the medium of his collector, 
Mr. Gibson, who was sent to the Pirman Empire for it; and 
this is become a noble and vigorously growing specimen in the 
princely stoves of Chatsworth ——but Mrs. Lawrence, by her skill 
in horticulture, and the great care and attention she devoted to 
a much younger plant in her rich collection, has the still greater 
1849. This plant was 
honour of bringing it to flower in April, ) 
presented by Lord Hardinge, then Governor General of the East 
Indies in 1847, and when only eleven feet high, produced its 
loasonis in the stove of Baling Park: The firet raceme Ws 
fitly sent to Her Most Gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria ; the 
second was liberally placed at our disposal, and an atlas-folio 
JULY Ist, 1849. 
