monopetalous. Stamens diadelphous 4. Germen linear : 

 Style filiform, the length of the stamens. Legumen 

 oblong-oval, obliquely mucronate, compressed, contracted 

 in the middle, villous, net-veined, two seeded. Seeds 

 nearly round, bright scarlet, with a black spot extending 

 over nearly half the seed ; Hilum large and open. 



It is probable that Plumier's plant the Dolichos pyra- 

 midalis of Lamarck is not the same species with the present 

 subject, being described as having racemes of flowers a foot 

 and half in length ; Swartz describes them as four or five 

 inches long, in other respects his description coincides 

 nearly with our own. M. Poiret considers the second 

 figure of the genus Abrus in Lamarck's illustrations as be- 

 longing to Glycine phaseoloides ; and there is little doubt 

 but that it must at least be a congener of it. 



For this very rare climbing shrub, native of the West 

 Indies, not mentioned in any of our catalogues of plants cul- 

 tivated in this country, we are indebted to John Walker, 

 Esq. of Arno's Grove, Southgate, who thinks he received it, 

 when a seedling, from the Hon. and Rev. Wm. Herbert. 

 Requires to be kept in the stove. Flowers in June and 

 July. 



