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petiolis spinosis, foliolo termiuali ovato subtriangulari obtuso, 3| 

 uncias lato, 3 uncias loiigo, lateralibus insequilateris ovato tri- 

 angularibus, petiolulis j-uncialibus, folia juvenilia minora pulve- 

 rulenti-tomentosa. Elores in racemis subterminalibus brevibus 

 sjjeciosi iis E. glaucce subsimiles, miuores. Calyx bilabiata pul- 

 verulenta, | unicam longa, labio inferiore'apice bifido quam supe- 

 rior lougiore. Vexillum uuguiculatum ovatum obtusuni patukim, 

 1| uncias longum, 1| uncias latum, aurantiacum, veuis viridibus. 

 Alse breves, auriculiformes, |-unciales, virides, rubro-margiuatae. 

 Carina brevis viridis alis subsimilis subsequalis. Stamina 10, 

 basi longiusculi connati kennosina, biuncialia. Pistillum audroecio 

 subsequale. Ovarium pubescens. Stylus gracilis roseus. Stigma 

 rotundata parva viridia. Legumen 3-4-uncialis, ajDice longe 

 acuminata 1-2-spermum, Semen ^-uncialis oblougum, dorso eari- 

 nati, atrum politum, circa liilum coccineum. 



Main island, scattered bushes near the village and in the 

 Sapate. One full-grown tree in the cocoa-nut plantation at Sueste. 

 It also occurs at Sella Giueta. 



This very interesting tree is called " Mulungu " by the in- 

 habitants of the island, which name is also applied to Erythrina 

 Mulungu, Mart., quite a different species, of which we saw a 

 single fine-tree at Iguarassa near Pernambuco. It is scrupu- 

 lously cut down by the convict woodcutters under the direction 

 of the Grovernor, as it is stated that if rafts are made of it they 

 become water-logged and sink in open sea in three days. This 

 is no doubt the tree called Erythrina exaltata by Webster in the 

 Voyage of the ' Chanticleer ' as cited on p. 18, which, he says, is 

 the largest tree in the island ; and it is also, I believe, the plant 

 intended by Moseley, Linu. Journ. Soc. Bot. siv. p. 360. " I saw 

 several specimens of a tree with rounded leaves of a bluish green 

 and stout thorns: it had a Euphorbiaceous look. . . .One of the 

 trees was about 20 feet high and 9 inches in diameter of trunk." 

 Now, I believe, there is only oue tree of it left of any size in the 

 islands, and that is in the cocoa-nut grove at Sueste; and the 

 young plants scattered over the wooded districts and thickets in 

 the main island, and also Sella Griueta, do not show any signs of 

 bearing flowers, as they are too young. The tree which Moseley 

 saw near the village is cut down, only a bush remaining. It so 

 seldom flowers, that I could not at first elicit from the convicts 

 what the colour of the flowers was ; and under the present regime 

 it will, I fear, soon be extinct. The tree at Sueste is about 30 feet 



