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auricled at the base. Legume large, inflated, stipitate, mu- 

 cronate at the point, with the persistent base of the style, 

 many-seeded. Seeds compressed, round, small in proportion 

 to the size of the ieffume. 



I received this plant, along with many others equally in- 

 teresting, from Madeira, in March, 1830. It grows among 

 the mountains of that district, flowering and ripening its seeds 

 in the cool season. 



[This very handsome species of Crotalaria was named 

 ^^ tomentosa" by Dr. Wight; but there being ah-eady a C. 

 tomentosa of Rottler among the simple-leaved species, I have 

 altered it to C. digitata. Its nearest affinity, and the only 

 one perhaps to which it approaches, is the C. quinquefolia of 

 Linn., but that is a glabrous plant, or nearly so, and has nar- 

 row-lanceolate leaflets. Both are annual, and both must have, 

 when growing, a good deal the aspect of a Lupine.'] 

 SuppL. Tab. XVI. Crotalaria digitata. Fig. 1, Calyx and 

 stamens, including the pistil : — slightly magnified. Fig. 2, 

 Valve of the legume, with seeds : — natural size. 



XVII. 

 CALOPHYLLUM INOPHYLLUM. 



POLYANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. Nat. Ord. GuTTIFERiE. 



Gen. Char. Cal. 0-2-4-sepalus coloratus. Cor. 4-petala, 

 lutea. Stam. numerosa basi polyadelpha aut libera; 

 AnthercB oblongae. Stylus crassus. Stigma simplex aut 

 capitatum. Drupa globosa aut ovata foeta nuce abortu 

 1-sperma, raro 2-sperma. — Arbores, folia nervis confertis 

 transversis parallelis distincta ; flores racemosi. DC. 



Calophyllum Inophyllum ; foliis obovatis saepius emarginatis, 

 ramulis teretibus, floribus laxe racemosis, racemis axil- 

 laribus, pedunculis 1-floris saepius oppositis. DC. (Suppl. 

 Tab. XVII.) 



Calophyllum Inophyllum. Linn. Sp. PI. p. 732. Willd. Sp. 

 PI. V. 2. p. 1159. De Cand. Prodr. v. \. p. 562. Spreng. 

 Syst. Veget. v. 2. p. 571. 



Bintangen maritima. Rumph. Anib. v. 2. p. 211. t. 71. 



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