266 Dr. Smith's Specific Characters of 



10. Callistachya. Ventenat Malmais. 115. 



Calyx quinquefidus, bilabiatus. Corolla papilionacea. Stigma 

 simplex. Legumen pedicellatum, lignosum, multiloculare I 

 polys perm urn. 



*1. C. lanceolata, foliis lanceolatis acutis, racemo terminals 



C. lanceolata. Ventenat Malmais. t. 115. 



This new genus, which I am happy to add to my list on the 

 authority of M. Ventenat, appears clearly distinguishable from 

 all the rest by its fruit, which according to that writer is a woody 

 legume, opening only at its summit, and separated by mem- 

 branous transverse partitions into several cells, each containing 

 1 seed. I have presumed to change the termination of the name, 

 to avoid the fault, always, if possible, to be guarded against, 

 of compounding it of one already established, St achy s ; see In- 

 troduction to Botany, 387, and Linn. Philos. Bot. sect. 225. 



I have never seen a specimen of this plant, any more than of 

 the second species mentioned by the same learned author, of 

 which he gives the following specific character only, having 

 never seen the flowers. 



*2. C. elliptica, foliis ellipticis obtusis. Vent. he. cit. 



Both plants are natives of New Holland, and would doubtless 

 have been taken by superficial botanists for Crotalarice. The 

 plate and description in M. Ventenat's work have helped me to 

 understand another plant, brought by Mr. Menzies from King 

 George's Sound, and which I venture to propose as a third spe- 

 cies of Callistachya, 



*3. C. cuneifolia, foliis cuneiformibus emarginatis, pedunculis 

 axillaribus solitariis folio longioribus. 



This is a dwarf herbaceous plant, 2 or 3 inches high, appa- 

 rently 



