548 Dr. Francis Hamilton's Commentary 



tentes, setaceae, patentes, hirsute, brevissimae. Racemus 

 oppositifolius, ante norescentiam brevissimus, sed postea 

 folio longior. Flores parvi, albidi, penduli, pedicellati, ex 

 eodem puncto gemini. Folium florale caulino simile, ad 

 imum par riorum saepe, sed non semper, adest ; ad caetera 

 florum paria bracteae forma stipularum praeditae. Calyx 

 pubescens, ultra medium quinquefidus laciniis setaceis lon- 

 gitudine corollae. Vexillum subrotundum, exterius pube- 

 scens. Alee longitudine carinae. Filament a simplex et no- 

 vemfidum. Ant her a subrotundae. Stigma subrotundum. 

 Lesumen erectiusculum, lineare, rectum, hirsutum, com- 

 pressum, marginatum, obtusum cum cuspide rerlexo, valvis 

 inter semina discretis. Semina circiter novem compressi- 

 uscula, utrinque truncata, approximata. 



The distinction between Tephrosia, Urinaria, or Brisonia and 

 Galega seems to me ill defined, and of little use. This plant 

 last described perhaps should be a Galega, and the others Te- 



phrosias ? 



Sherigam Cottam, p. 105. Jig. 56. 



The other species of Cottam mentioned in the text, and which 

 Syen the annotator could not discover, may be found in the 

 Cottam (part i. t. 22.), or in the Tsieriam Cottam (part v. p. 21. 

 t. 11.), neither of which, however, has any affinity with this 

 plant. 



' The elder Barman (Thes. Zeyl. 159. t. 74.) describes a plant, 

 which the Dutch in Ceylon called Kleine Cocos, or small Coco 

 (Theobroma), translated in the Encyclopedic 'petite Coque, comme 

 si Von disoit arbrisseau a petites coquesf This name, Kleine Co- 

 cos, using rather freely the form Aphceresis, or perhaps Synala:- 

 pha, Burman made into botanical Greek, Microcos, a word at 

 any rate sufficiently utterable, and of reasonable length. He 



was 





