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larger than a Spanish Chestnut, by which name it is here 

 known. The legumens are large, solitary, and pendent, pro- 

 duced by the two-year-old wood : t\\Q leaves are impari-pin- 

 nate, each several leaflet being oval, lanceolate, and of a rich 

 green, and the shade afforded by the whole tree excels any 

 I have hitherto seen in New South Wales. By the natives 



Hab. In rivos fluminis " Brisbane" dicti, Novse HoUandi*. D. A. Cun- 

 ningham et D. C. Fraser. 

 Arbor 30-40-ped. et ultra, cortice cinereo ruguloso obtecta, dense foliosa. Folia 

 pallide viridia, spithamcea, fere ad pedalem, impavi-pinnata ; foliolis elliptico- 

 ovatis, subacuminatis, integerrimis, glabris, pavallelira venosis, plerumque 

 alternantibus. Racemi e ramis vetustioribus progredientes, solitarii vel 

 aggregati, digitales, simplices vel subcompositi. Pedunculi, pedicellique vix 

 unciam longi, glabri. Calyx brevis, tubulosus, coloratus, vix distincte bi- 

 labiatus, labio superiore dentibus duobus, inferiore tribus, suba?qualibus. 

 Petala 5, crocea, perigyna, papilionacea, calyce 4-plo longiora, subconniventia. 

 Vexillum obovatum, unguiculatum, lateribus deflexis. Al<z vexillo vix brevl- 

 oi-es, lineari-oblongEe, basi attenuata;, subincurvae. Carina e petalis duobus 

 liberis, alis similliinis, et vix brevioribus. Stamina 10, perigyna, exserta. 

 Filamenta omnia libera, filiformia. Antherce dorsi medio affixse, oblongse, bi- 

 loculares, marginem versus debiscentes. Germen angustum, planum, longe 

 stipitatum, curvatum, glabrura, superne in stylo stipitis longitudine attenua- 

 tum. Stipna simplex. Legumen magnum, spithamfBum et ultra, stipita- 

 tum, ol)longo-cylindraceum, pallide fuscum, glabrum, bivalve, valvis coriaceis 

 crassis intus pulposis. Semina 3-5 magna, depresso-globosa, fusca, nitida, iis 

 Castanea vesccB s\m\\\\ma.. Ifi'/Mm lineare, pallidum. Albumen UMWam. Embrijo 

 semini conformis, pallide flavo-virescens,extuspaululum rugulosus. Cotyledones 

 magna, hemispha;ricffi. ifadiCM?rt supera, eretta, exserta; /^ZwrnaZa parva, conica. 

 Not only have I received excellent specimens of this rare plant through the kind- 

 ness of Mr. Fraser and of Mr. Telfair, by way of the Mauritius, but the former 

 of these gentlemen has sent seeds to our Glasgow Botanic Garden, which, from 

 their fresh appearance, give us the prospect of their vegetating. In the Mauri- 

 tius the plant will probably flourish as in its native soil, under Mr. Telfair's 

 fostering care. Although the large and handsome seeds are eaten by the natives 

 of Brisbane River, and by the convicts in that part of our colony, as substitutes 

 for our Spanish chestnuts, I have found them hard, bitter, and their flavour not 

 unlike that of the acorn. 

 Tab. LI. Fig. 1, Portion of an old branch, with a raceme of flowers. Fig. 



2, Le&(:—7iat. size. Fig. 3, Anther. Fig. ^, Pistil :— magnified. 

 Tab. LI I. Fig. 1, Portion of a legume, partly opened, and showing the seeds 

 lodged in a white pulp. Fig. 2, Seed. Fig. 3, Embryo. Fig. 4, Do. 

 with a portion of one of the cotyledons to show the radicle more distinctly, 

 and the plumule : — all of the nat. size, — //'. J. H, 



