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360 Mr. Coresrooxe’s Description 
length and situation of the stamina, filiform. Stigma headed, 
two-lobed. Legume broad-falcate, compressed, few-seeded. 
Seed black, immersed in lateritious meal: unequally reniform 
or nearly three-cornered, compressed. 
This is seemingly a plant of the same genus with the Vouapa 
and Simira of Guiana described by Aublet; from the first of 
which a genus was constituted by Lamarck (Ilust. Genres, i. 96). 
Schreber, followed by Willdenow, has united them with the Outea 
of the same author, in a genus of which the character is taken 
from the plant last mentioned *. In deference to their autho- 
rity, the Indian plant is here described under the name assigned 
by them to the genus; qoos nevertheless an opinion, that, 
with the Vouapas, it sho e Me sabe from. that, and formed 
into a distinct genus wit 
— by Lamarck: “ Calyx 
guiculate petal. Three 
Legume compressed, fe 
plant now described to 
. the natural order of Ca 
disjoined even in the | 
filaments seem to MR that its proper place is i in the Decan- 
dria class. 
PYGEUM. te 
Gartner de Fruct. 1. p. 218. t. 46. f. m ei 
ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Calyx inferior, six-toothed. Frail 
six. Drupe dry, transversely vitu age ans vibe without 
p 
dt dw [P -PYGEUM ACUMINATUM. | x 
ab std) Tama VE ME, A ck | 
A large tree, native of mountainous — ort on 
* Gen. Plant; uo. 62. Spec. Plant.no.78 A EG 
Silhet. 
KM. aqui Ment a aa rag, 
