our own country. Its flowering season in the Mauritius is 
April and May. I am indebted to Professor Boser for the 
excellent drawing, of which a portion is here represented, 
as well as for the description and for specimens. 
Descr. Tree fourty to fifty feet high, with the general 
aspect of Pornciana regia, (Bot. Mag. t. 2884,) but with a 
thicker trunk and more ample foliage: the bark is reddish- 
grey, smooth ; the wood white, rather fragile. Branches 
very long and spreading, rounded, grey, the younger ones 
greenish, rough with elevated points. Leaves alternate, 
remote, very patent, the lower ones reflexed, bipinnate 
with twenty to thirty pairs, oblong-oval in their circum- 
scription, three feet long : pinnz opposite, four inches long, 
with twenty to twenty-eight pairs of horizontal, linear leaf- 
lets, half an inch long, shorter at the base and at the extre- 
mity of the pinne, rather unequal, on very short petiolules, 
slightly pubescent. The common petiole is swollen at the 
base, channelled above, green or purplish. Stipules minute, 
setaceous, deciduous. Flowers bright scarlet, racemose. 
Racemes from four to twelve, partly arising from the apex 
of the branches and partly from the axils of the superior 
leaves, a foot and a half long, simple or branched. Pedun- 
cles rounded, clothed with ferruginous down, often warted. 
Pedicels crowded, jointed upon the stem, reddish: bracteas 
coloured, very deciduous. The buds are obliquely globose, 
somewhat acute, beautifully velvety, red. Calyx greenish 
within, including the ale and vexillum. The vexillum is 
singularly small, convolute, and almost wholly covered by 
the ale: it has a broad nerve with a white downy tubercle 
at the base, and is of a yellowish colour, marked with veins. 
Of the ten free stamens, three are inserted beneath the vex- 
illum, two under the alz, one under the carina, and the rest 
beneath the ovary. Ovary glabrous green, ending in a 
very long style.* (Boser.) 
* The description, from which this is extracted, was read at a meeting of 
the Natural Hist. Society of the Mauritius, by Professor W. Bossr, the 
Vice-President. 
Tab. 3325. Portion of a flowering branch, nat. size. 
_ Tab. 3326, Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Flower, from which the Calyx is removed. : 
3. Vexillum. 4, The same spread open. 5, One of the Alm. 6. 6. An- 
thers. 7. Pistil, magnified. 8. Legumen nat. size. 
