360 il/r. Colkbrooke's Description 



length and situation of the stamina, fiUform. Stigma headed, 



two-lobed. Legume broad-falcate, compressed, few-seeded. 



5cff/ black, immersed in lateritious meal : unequally reniform 



or nearly three-cornered, compressed. 



This is seemingly a plant of the same genus with the Vouapa 

 and Simiia of Guiana described by Aublet ; from the first of 

 ■which a genus was constituted by Lamarck {lllitst. Genres, i. 96). 

 Schreber, followed by Willdenow, has united them with the Outea 

 of the same author, in a genus of which the character is taken 

 from the plant last mentioned*. In deference to their autho- 

 rity, the Indian plant is here described under the name assigned 

 by them to the genus; entertaining nevertheless an opinion, that, 

 with the Vouapas, it should be separated from that, and formed 

 into a distinct genus with the essential character nearly as given 

 by Lamarck : " Calyx four-leaved or four-parted. A single un- 

 guiculate petal. Three fertile stamens opposite to the petal. 

 Legume compressed, few-seeded." The affinity of the Indian 

 plant now described to the Bauhinia, Foinciana, &c. places it in 

 the natural order of Cassias ; from which it should not perhaps be 

 disjoined even in the artificial system ; as Bauhinias with sterile 

 filaments seem to indicate, that its proper place is in the Decan- 

 dria class. 



P Y G E U M. 

 Gcertner de Fruct. 1. p. 218. t. 46. /. 4. 



IcosANDRiA MONOGYNiA. Calyx inferior, six-toothed. Petals 

 six. Drupe dry, transversely oblong. Emh-yo inverse, without 

 perisperm. 



PYGEUM ACUMINATUM. 



Tab. XVIIL 



A large tree, native of mountainous countries bordering on 



* Gen. Plant, no. 62. Spec. Plant, no. 78. 



Silhet. 



