Iris country, in the open air, durin 
autumn in the Nursery of Messrs . 1 
The specimen 
was trained to a wall, and blossomed in July. We cannot, however, hope to see it in beauty unle 
guarded from severe frosts, as when against a " conservative wall 
W. Hooker, who first published it, refers it without * 
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and Dr. Klotzsch has formed out of it a 
Eryth 
cC 
ytl 
lengtl 
its stamens; from Heterostemon in its long distinct stamens; from all those genera in its 
He also gives a description of the pod of the plant, which, although 
polyga 
flowers/' 
unacknowledged, is, we observe, little more than a copy of Sir William Hooker's statement 
concerning it. 
Probably it is not a true Poinciana, that is to say a legal associate of Poinciana elata, from which 
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Time 
we abstain from interfering with Sir AYilliam Hooker's name. As Mr. Bentham observes to us, " if 
Poinciana elata be taken as the true type of the genus, P. GUliesii is scarcely a congener, and 
Klotzsch's name may possibly be adopted. P. pukherwna cannot be generically separated from 
Csesalpinia. But whether P. Gilliesii be really distinct or not from Caesalpinia remains to be 
investigated/' 
