342 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Smithia, 
This species was discovered by Colonel Hardwicke grow- 
ing in the vicinity of Hurdwar, 
8. F, stricta. Roxb, 
Stems many, shrubby, straight. Leaves ternate ; leaflets 
broad-lanceolate, smooth. Racemes axillary, erect. Stipules 
and bractes lanceolate, caducous, Legume smooth. 
A large shrubby species, a native of the mountainous parts 
of the coast. Flowers during the cold season, 
Stems numerous, erect, with very few branches, which are 
also erect. Bark smooth, Leaves alternate, petioled, ternate. 
Leaflets nearly equal, broad-lanceolate, entire, fine pointed, 
a little wrinkled, about nine inches long and three. broad. 
Petioles three-sided ; upper side even, the lateral faces striat- 
ed. Stipules of the petioles sheathing, remarkably large, 
surrounding the extremities of the sanulien; and overlapping 
each other, falling ; those of the leaflets wanting. Racemes 
axillary, solitary, erect, the length of the petioles, short-pe- 
duncled, the peduncle is hid in large sheath-like bractes, and 
every part above is imbricated with the flowers. Bractes of. 
the flowers solitary, lanceolate, one-flowered, falling. Flow- 
ers very numerous, beautifully striated with red, yellow, and 
violet. Legumes not jointed, oval, pointed, tworneadanks seeds 
spherical, 
This plant has flowered in my garden for several scat 
is peste nee when in flower, — 
“SMITHIA. Schreb. gen. N. 1760. 
- Calys bilabiate. Filaments ten, united into two. equal box 
dies, Legumes composed of one-seeded Jsinite 
1. S. sensitiwa, Ait. Mer il, po 490, ge. 512:. “bei 13. 
Willd, ill, mecugaaiee 
