HOUSTOUn's central AilKRICAN LEGUMINOS.E. 231 



was grown iu Chelsea Garden fiom seeds sent from Havannah 

 by Houstoun.* 



Erythuina AMERICANA. On tbis plant Dryander based bis E. 



earned Ait. {llort. Kcw. ed. 1, iii. 8). We bave specimens from 



.^ Houstoun (Vera Cruz, 1731) and from Ilort. Kew. (1779) written 



'- '\, up by Dryander. Miller's name, however, must stand, as it ante- 



nji^rt- dates Dryander's by twenty-one years. The plant is not recorded 



"^ for Central America by Mr. Hemsley. Tbere is a good figure in 



Trew, PI. Select, ii. t. 8, but the pod on Houstoun's specimen in 



Herb. Sloaue (146, p. 12 n) bas a sbort acute beak, very difl'erent 



from the loug attenuated termination as figured by Trew. Miller 



raised the plant in Chelsea Garden from seeds sent from. Vera Cruz. 



Hedysauum scandens. There can be little doubt from Miller's 

 description that tbis is Galactia pendula Pers. Tbis, however, is a 

 West Indian plaut, and Miller says that Houstoun's plant was sent 

 to him from Vera Cruz. Tbere is in Herb. Banks a specimen from 

 Jamaica (Houstoun) to wbicli be bas attached Sloane's name, 

 "Pbaseolus minor lactescens flore purpureo." Clitoria Galactia L. 

 [Galactia i^endula Pers.) was establisbed on Sloane's Jamaica plant, 

 and with this Houstoun's specimen entirely agrees. It seems there- 

 fore likely that Miller wrote "la Vera Cruz" instead of "Jamaica." 



Latuyrus americanus Mill. This is doubtfully referred by S. 

 Watson {Index, 205), who is followed by Jackson, to Baptisia per- 

 folieita Br. Houstoun's specimens in Herb. Banks and in Herb. 

 Hloane (146, 41), with bis drawing, leave no doubt as to the identity 

 of the plant witb lihi/nchosia menispernioidea DC, under which it was 

 placed long since by Mr. Bennett. 



EoBiNiA ROSEA (= Lonckocaipus .^ ruseus DO.j is near L. sericeus 

 (fide Bentham in Jouni. Linn. Soc. iv. Suppl. 101), but in our judg- 

 ment is not that species ; tbe material is only scanty. It comes 

 from Campcachy. There is another specimen in Herb. Sloane 

 (292, 04), but this is also incomplete. 



Cassia uniflora. Swartz says ( I'mdr. 00 (1788) ) that bis Cassia 

 sericea is founded on ^^ C. serieea Mill. Diet." — the Index Kewensis 

 gives it as first published iu Fl. Ind. Occ. 724 (1798), where is also 

 cited C. sericea Mill. Diet., but Miller has no such name. Swartz 

 meant C. unijiora Mill. Diet., of which be quotes the description, 

 and Bentham {Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 530) cites Miller's type 

 under ('. sericea. Miller's name unijiora is the earliest, and must 

 stand for this species, although, as Bentham {I.e.) points out, bis 

 specimen is not single-ilowered. Tbere is a specimen from Chelsea 

 Garden in Herb. Sloane, 293, pt. 2, p. 40. 



Cassia villosa is kept up by lientham. In L\ I 'I. t. 1060, 

 Bentham says Miller's and Pavon's specimens probably came from 

 Oaxaca, but the former is from Campeachy and the latter from Peru. 

 This plant is not in Millspaugh's Enuweration of Yucatan Plants, but 

 there is a specimen iu the Herbarium from Scbott, Merida, No. 1. 



* It may be mentionod here that Hed>jmrumpeduncul<ttHin Mill. {Desmodiuin 

 pedHUCHldtum DC. Prod. ii. ii'M) = Psoralea nuiilutoides Michx. 



