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ttigrd 7naculd notato, of Plumier's Catalogue, and unpublished MSS. 

 loin. 7, tab. 145 excepted ; my first care was to endeavour to find 

 out whether it nii<iht not be the same. That it was not the plant 

 of Plumier I was well aware, a copy of his drawing of that, with 

 many others of his unpublished drawings, being in the Sherardian 

 collection at Oxford, and from which 1 had taken copies my- 

 self for Mr. Lambert. I was, however, still uncertain about the 

 plant of Aublct, very erroneous and even heterogeneous syno- 

 nymy being often adopted by the botanists of that age with very 

 little scruple. Fortunately, however, his herbarium was at hand, 

 being now in the possession of the Right Honourable Sir Joseph 

 Banks ; and on being favoured by Mr. Dryander with a sight 

 of Aublet's original specimen, I found that Mr. Lambert's plant 

 Avas the identical Robinia coccinea. Characters exactly similar I 

 have since discovered in another nondescript plant from Guiana, 

 communicated to Mr. Lambert by Mr. Anderson of St. Vincents ; 

 and also in the Sopliora monosperma of Professor Swartz's Frodro- 

 mus and Flora Indice Occidentalis, of which the Pseudo'acacia 

 ingens fructu cocci/ieo, ^c. of Plumier's drawings, above mentioned, 

 is a very good representation ; a plant essentially differing both 

 from the original Sophora of Linnaeus and the Virgilia and Po- 

 dalyria of Lamarck, to the latter of which it has lately been re- 

 ferred by Mons. Poiret, as well as the Edwardsia of Mr. Salis- 

 bury, a very curious species of whicli, from South America, 

 communicated by the late Professor Cavanillcs, is also in Mr, 

 Lambert's collection. From these three species, therefore, ao-ree- 

 ing in habits and characters, and natives of nearly the same lati- 

 tude, I have constituted a new genus, the characters of which, 

 accompanied with sketches from the dried plants, I have now the 

 honour to lay before the Society. The name Ormosia, by which I 

 have distinguished it, is formed from the Greek 0§fMg, monik; a 



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