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COLVILLEA RACEMOSA. SPLENDID COLVILLEA. 
Se ee ae ae 
Class and Order. ee 
DecanpriA Mownoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord —Lecuminos2. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cotvittea. Boj.—Cal. magnus, oblique gibbosus, colora- 
tus, bipartitus, Jobo superiore maximo erecto, ventricoso, 3— 
4-dentato, 3—4-nervo ; inferiore minore lineari-lanceolato, 
Corolla 5-petala, subpapilionacea: vexillum minutum, ro- 
tundato-reniforme, convolutum, alis tectum: ale obovate 
basi attenuate erectz, vexillum in partem tegentes. Carina 
e petalis duobus, oblongis, liberis, basi attenuatis ciliatis, as- 
surgentibus, alas excedentibus. Stamina 10, libera, fila- 
mentis inequalibus basi pubescentibus: Anthere supra 
plane, birimose. Ovarium subsessile, lanceolatum, attenu- 
atum, compressum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma acutum. Le-— 
gumen rectum, turgidum, bivalve, polyspermum. Semina 
elliptica, compressa, utrinque retusa. Cotyledones in statu 
germinationis foliacee, plane. Bojer. 
Specific Name. 
Cotvitiea racemosa. Bojer, MSS. 
This truly splendid plant, worthy of bearing the name 
of his late Excellency Sir Cuartes Cotvitie, Governor of 
the Mauritius, to whom it was dedicated by its discoverer, 
is probably a native of the east coast of Africa: but was 
only seen by Professor Boser in 1824, in the Bay of Bom- 
batoe, on the western coast of Madagascar, where a single 
tree was cultivated by the inhabitants. That indefatigable 
naturalist raised it from seeds which he took to the Mauri- 
tius, where it has perfectly succeeded : and we may soon 
expect to add this most ornamental plant to the stoves of 
our 
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