238 CALCYCIFLOR^. 



1 . * Ormosia dasycarpa. Red Bead-tree. 



Leaves impari-pihnate 4-6-jugate, leaflets acumin- 

 ate glabrous, legumes tomentose. 



Glycine arboreum, foliis oblongis, seminibus majoribus, 

 Sroivne, 298. — Sophora monosperma, Swartz, Fl. hid. Occ. 

 722. — Ormosia dasycarpa, Jacks. Trans. Linn. Soc. X. 360. — 

 a. Brown, H. Keio. ed. 2. III. 3. 



HAB. ? 



f FL. April. 



A tree, 10 feet in heiglit : branches ferrugineo-tomentose. 

 Panicle terminal, many-flowered : flowers large, blue, fragrant. 

 Legume ovate, villous, 2-valved, 1 -seeded; seed large, spherical, 

 scarlet, marked with a black spot. — Stvartz. 



Browne informs us that he met with this plant in Montserrat ; 

 and Swartz gives it, on the authority of Dr Anderson, as a 

 native of the West-India islands. I am inclined to doubt its 

 being indigenous to this Island. 



Tribe II. LotecB. 



Legumes continuous. Stamens with the filaments 



concrete. 



III. Crotalaria. Rattle-wort. 



Calyx 5-lobed, sub-bilabiate ; upper lip 2-fid, the 

 under 3-fid. Stamens large, cordate ; keel falcate, 

 acuminate. Filaments connected ; sheath generally 

 divided above. Style laterally barbato-pubescent. 

 Legume turgid, with the valves ventricose, inflated, 

 generally many-seeded, pedicelled. — De Cand. 



Herbs or shrubs ; leaves simple, or palmato-compound, 3- 

 (or rarely) 5-foliate ; flowers generally yellow ; bracteoles very 

 small, at the base of the pedicels, or of the calyx. — KgoraXof, 

 was the name of a noisy Greek instrument, similar to the cym- 

 bals, or, according to some, to the castanets of the present day. 

 It applies to the present genus, from the seeds rattling, when 

 ripe, in the inflated pods, and occasioning a noise. The flowers 

 of many of the species deserve, in some degree, the name of 

 beautiful. They do not howe\jer possess any valuable or pecu- 

 liar qualities. 



1. Crotalaria verrucosa. Warted Rattle-wort. 

 Stipules lunated declinate, leaves simple oval, 



