down or more on the upper side ; abruptly deflexed at the 
base, then straight and ascending’, far exserted, 7. e. an meh 
or more beyond the keel and wings. Filaments free for 
about half an inch below the anthers, smooth, deep pur- 
plish-red; five longer than the rest. Anthers small, brown. 
Pollen greenish-brown, subtrigonal, equilateral, the angles 
very obtuse or rounded. Style as long as the anthers, deep 
red. Stigma small, capitate. Ovary slender, elongated, 
tomentose, subcompressed. Not unfrequently there are 
two ovaries with their styles in one flower, which in other 
respects preserves its symmetry, except that the tube of the 
filaments is split farther down. Ovules numerous, but few 
come to maturity. Pods ripe in December ; the only one 
I have ever seen was about three inches long and half an 
inch broad, two-seeded, oblong, compressed, contracted 
between the seeds, beaked at the apex, stipitate and atten- 
uated at the base, perfectly smooth and even, or with a few 
faint, irregular veins or wrinkles, dark brown, gaping 
a little at the suture, on each side the edge of which runs 
a slight groove accompanied by a rib. Internally, it ap- 
pears separated into as many large, irregular cells as there 
are perfect seeds: the spaces between them as well as the 
beak and the slender base of the pod being filled with @ 
hard, spongy mass, like pith. Seeds much smaller than their 
cells, smooth and even, ofa uniform vermillion-red, each with 
a regular equilateral, trapeziform or lozenge-shaped, black 
mark, rather larger and better defined than in E. poianthes, 
Brot., close below the hilum, which is itself convex, with a 
fine groove down its middle, and dark-brownish : the seeds 
are of a tumid kidney shape, the back rounded, with a very 
slight trace of keel ; one-third of an inch long and a quarter 
broad. The Pods are very rarely produced in Madeira, 
the flowers usually falling off together with their pedicels. 
This is the case indeed with all Eryrurine here. 
The only individual of this noble species which I have seen in 
flower is growing amidst a plantation of other rare exotic trees in the 
garden of the Quinta de Valle near Funchal, at a height of three hundred 
or four hundred feet above the sea. Of its particular history and intro- 
duction it is now impossible to learn any thing with precision. It was 
probably imported by a former proprietor of the place, Mr, J. Murpoc#, 
with many other rare exotics, inmates of our stoves and greenhouses in 
England, which have now attained, in this favoured spot, the size and 
luxuriance of forest trees. Lowe. 
I am indebted to the Rev. R. T. Lows, for the above description, 
and for the drawing made from the living plant in Madeira. It is to be 
hoped that it will not be long ere our gardens are in possession of this 
splendid species. 
Fig. 1. Legumen. 2, 3. Seeds :—nat. size. 
