226 EXOTHEA OBLONGIFOLIA, OR 
longior. Legumen 4-6 poll. longum 2-23 poll. latum, sepe 
sub-bullatum, fibroso-lignosum, suturis leviter incrassatis, 
valvulis inter semina arcte connatis. Semina transversa ob- 
longa.—Singapore, Wallich; Otaheite, Bertero, Hinds ; Phi- 
lippine Islands, Cuming. 7 
This genus concludes the bipinnate Mimosee. There re- 
main only the two simply pinnate genera, Inga and Affonsea, 
There are, it is true, several published species which I have 
not taken up, but which are unknown to me and too im- 
perfectly described to enable me to guess at the genera to 
which they should be referred. These neglected species are, 
however, not so numerous as stated by Walpers, for many of 
those enumerated by him (Repert. 1, p. 922), as ** species 
à Benthamio omnino neglecte,” will be found to have been 
quoted even in his copy of my Memoir either as substantive 
species or synonyms. 
(To be continued). 
Some account of EXOTHEA OBLONGIFOLIA, of Dr. Macfadyen; 
(Hypelate oblongifolia, Hoox.), by W. J. H. 
(Tas. VIL) 
Among a collection of plants made in the West Indies 
by Mr. Lane, Surgeon, R.N., and communicated to me by 
W. Brown, Esq. of Edinburgh, is one from Jamaica, which 
I was not long in determining to be the same with the 
Exothea oblongifolia, Macfadyen, in his Flora of Jamaica, first 
detected by that gentleman on the Port Royal Mountains. 
Its general resemblance to Amyris induced Dr. Macfadyen 
to refer the plant to Terebinthacee, and not finding any ge- 
nus to agree with it of that family, he naturally considered it 
a new one, and constituted of it the genus Evothea (from 
eiw0ew, to expel, being separated, as it were, from the other 
Terebinthacee, or Amyridee, by the absence of the pellucid 
glands). I think, however, on a careful investigation, it will 
