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larger than a Spanish Chestnut^ by which name it is here 

 known. The legumens are large, solitary, and pendent, pro- 

 duced by the two-year-old wood: the leaves are impari-pin- 

 nate, each several leaflet being oval, lanceolate, and of a rich 

 green^ and the shade afforded by the whole tree excels any 

 I have hitherto seen in New South Wales. By the natives 



Hab. In rivos fluminis " Brisbane** dicti, Novse HoUandice, i>. ^- Cun- 

 ningliam et D, C, Fraser. 



Arbor 30-40-ped. et ultra, cortice cinereo ruguloso obtecta, dense foliosa. Fdia 

 pallide viridia, spithamKa, fere ad pedalem, impari-pinnata ; foliolis elliptico- 

 ovatis, subacuminatis, integerriniis; glabris^ parallelim venosis^ plerumqtie 

 alternantibus. Racemi e ramis vetustioribus progrcdientes, solitarii vel 

 aggregate digitales, simplices vel aubcompositi. FeduncuUy pedicelUque vix 

 unciam longi, glabri. Cahjx brevis, tubulosus, coloratus, vix distincte bi- 

 labiatus, labio superiore dentibus duobus, inferiore tribus, subsequalibus. 

 FetalaOy crocea, perigyna, papilionacea, calycc 4-plo longiora, subcomaventia. 

 Vexilhini obovatum, iinguiculatuna, lateribus deflexls. Al(^ vexiUo vix brevi- 

 ores, lineari-oblongse, basi attenuatee, subincurvse. Carina e petalis duobus 

 liberis, alls siniillimis, et vix brevioribus. Stamina 10, perigyna, exserta. 

 FUamc7ita omnia libera, filiformia. Anthera: dorsi medio affixse, oblongs, bi- 

 loculares, marginem versus dehiscentes. Germen angustum, planuin, longe 

 stipltatiun, curvatum, glabrura, superne in stylo stipitis longitudine attenua- 

 tum. Stig7na simplex, Legumen magnum, spithanaceum et ultra, stipita- 

 tum, oblongo-cylindraceum, pallide fuscum, glabrum, bivalve, valvis coriaceis 

 crassis intus pulposls. Semlna 3-5 magna, dep res so- globes a, fusca, nitida, us 

 Castanem vescoi BimWWmdi, IZ'iZM/n lineare, pallidum. Alhunien nxiWviVa* Bmlryo 

 semini conformis, pallide flavo-virescens,extuspaululum rugulosus. Cotyledon^ 

 magnge, heniisphsericse. Badkula^n^^vvi, erecta, exserta; /^Zwrnz/Za parva, conica- 



Not only have I received excellent specimens of this rare plant tbrougb the Una- 

 ness of Mr. Fraser and of Mr. Telfair, by way of the Mauritius, but the former 

 of these gentlemen has sent seeds to our Glasgow Botanic Garden, which, fro^i 

 their fresh appearance, give us the prospect of their vegetating- In the MauW" 

 tiua the plant will probably flourish as in its native soU, under Mr. Telfair s 

 fostering care. Although the large and handsome seeds ai-e eaten by the natives 

 of Brisbane River, and by the convicts in that part of our colony, as substitutes 

 for our Spanish chestnuts, I have found them hard, bitter, and their flavour no 

 unlike that of the acorn. 

 Tab. LI. Fig. 1, Portion of an old branch, with a raceme of flowers. 



2, Leaf:^„a?. size. Fig, 3, Anther, Fig. ^, VX^iW-— magnified^ 

 Tab. LII. Fig. 1, Portion of a legume, partly opened, and showing the see s 



lodged in a white pulp. Fig. 2, Seed, Fig, 3, Embryo. -F^- *• Y" 



with a portion of one of the cotyledons to show the radicle more AisXinm^ 



andthepl„mule:~a//o/^Aena<, sU^.^W. J. H. 



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