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have pinnated leaves without stipules, terminal spikes of flowers, 

 deciduous filaments; and the three first are probably all one and 

 the same plant: 3dly, S. Alopecuroides, to which genus also be- 

 longs the S. Flavcscens of Solander, first taken up from his MS. 

 in Hortus Kewensis : these two oriental plants are herbaceous, 

 have pinnated leaves without stipules, terminal spikes of flowers, 

 and persistent filaments : 4thly, S. Tetraptera and Microphylla, 

 of which genus a third species has been discovered in the Sand- 

 wich Isles: they have pinnated leaves without stipules, short ax- 

 illary spikes of flowers, and deciduous filaments inserted in a 

 large goblet-shaped 10-angular receptacle, which internally is 

 callous ; as soon as the petals and filaments fall off, the honey 

 gushes out abundantly from their scars, a circumstance so sin- 

 gular that I believe no other instance has yet been observed : 

 May we infer from it that this sweet secretion is destined to be 

 absorbed by the young fruit ? Does the honey in a hotter cli- 

 mate than ours, where these trees are indigenous, exude gradu- 

 ally from all the interior surface of the receptacle ? for in Iris 

 Xiphinm I have seen it sweating out in hot sunshine, so as to 

 form large drops even upon the external surface of the tube : 

 5thly, S. Capensis : this shrub is furnished with stipules, pinnated 

 leaves, long axillary spikes of fragrant flowers, and a eomprest 

 pod : the S. Aurea of Solander, which Lamarck joins to it, 

 is a very different tree, much nearer related to Robinia, where it 

 has been placed by that excellent botanist L'Heritier: <3thly, 

 S. Genistoides : to this shrub the S. Ternata and Trifoliata of 

 Thunberg are probably allied : they have ternate leaves with 

 stipules, axillary flowers, and differ essentially from the other 

 Cape plants arranged under Sophora, in the structure of their 

 calyx : 7thly, S. Tinctoria, Australis, Lupinoides, and Alba: these 

 are herbaceous plants from North America, with ternate leaves, 

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