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PoINCIANA REGIA. SuperB POINCIANA. 
SH Hidicekiiielelok- 
Class and Order. 
Decanpria Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Lreuminosaz. Div. 1V. Casarpinen. D.C.) — 
Generic Character. 
Calycis: sepala 5, inequalia, basi in cupulam subper- 
sistentem coalita, inferiore fornicato. Petala 5, stipitata, 
superiore difformi: Stam. 10, longissima, omnia fecunda, 
filamentis basi hirsutis. Stylus longissimus. Legumen 
plano-compressum, bivalve, submultiloculare, isthmis spon- 
giosis. Semina obovata, compressa, endopleura in aqua 
gelatinosa, cotyledonibus planis, plumula ovali. De C. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Poincrana * regia; inermis, foliis bipiunatis, pinnulis ovali- 
oblongis muticis, petalis longe stipitatis crenato-un- 
dulatis, superioris ungue marginibus involutis. 
Poiciana regia. Bojer MSS)” ; 
ae = : ger — 
Descr. A magnificent tree, thirty or forty feet high, 
having an erect trunk, three feet in diameter, for half its 
height unbranched, covered with a grey smooth bark ; the 
wood white ; above forming a vast cyme of alternate patent 
branches, the younger ones green spotted with white, and 
glabrous. The leaves broadly ovate in their cireumscrip- 
tion, two feet long, very patent, abruptly bipinnate, 
with from eleven to eighteen pairs of Pimne, which are 
four inches long, horizontally patent: pinnules spit 
* In honour of M. pg Pornet, a governor of the 
the Seventeenth century, who is said to have paid 
the Natural History of those islands. — 
