POINCIANA ۰ 
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Papilionaceæ ٩ Cæsalpineæ. 一 Decandria-Monogynia. 
RA —Poinciana:Calycistubo | pinnatis; floribus terminalibus racemosis aurantia- 
tarbinato-urceclato , limbi 5-partiti decidui laciniis eis. 
reflex majore concava. Coro 1125 petala 5, | Poinciana Tourn. Just. 391. L. G, 515. Poincia Nac, Elem. 
fires d inserta , ejusdem laciniis ge sen 1282. 
ee ta, posticum majus heteromorphum. Stamina Exouicu. Gen. pl. 6766. 
10, un s en longissima er om- : TIS 
nia "fertilis; fila a libera ep 0 hirsuta; an لامع ی‎ Aa e nee ee 
theræ oblongæ See tes. Ovarium stipitetutt 
E ngum compressum re Sty- 
lus filiformis basi haud articulatus adscendens; 
stigma simplex Waves glandulis minutissimis 
۱ is oblon 
gis; calycibus glandulosis apicibus dentato-ciliatis, 
legum Sep Verde glandulosis uniloculari- 
bus exsuccis. 
Poinciana Gilliesii "une n misc. I. 29. t. 34. 
AS 
fimbr Se . Le > n lineari-oblongum compres- | ۰ Brit. E Gard. 
sum siccum polys a um Resi ین‎ inter Cesalpinia Gilliesii es 
semina pre en bi Semin a lenticulari- ae salpinia macrantha Del. Ind. sem. hort. Monsp. 
ee kire albumino Em We ryonis Se: cotyle- 
don و‎ plane; radicula b eei. plum mula manifesta. _Erythrastono Gilliesii F. Krorsen, in L. K. et ۰ 
we, tices v. arbus se pis sime aculeatæ, in | Ic. Pl. rar. Hort. Ber. 1842. t. 39. page 98. 
Asia et America een Steng foliis impari 
Texte du Botanical Magazine de M. Hooker. 
POINCIANA GILLIESII. 
D? 6111:1855 
Mr. de Poinci, an ancient Governor of the french Antilles (XVII! cent.) 
GENERIC CHARACTER 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER | see above. 
SYNONIMY ا‎ . 
When I first described this charming plant, a native of Mendoza, South America, in the Botanical 
Miscellany above quoted, I little thought I should one eg have the pleasure of figuring it from 
plants flourishing in the open air, and without any covering in the winter. Yet such is the case. 
eds were introduced by Dr. Guus in 1829, and young ëng both at Mr. Kxıcar’s Nursery, and 
at the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, were removed to a South aspect in front of a stove. They 
have, with us at least, attained to a height of six or seven feet, and bear their rich yellow er 
with ken بحو ماه‎ long and thick scarlet stamens, during the summer months, and, indeed, till cu 
off by early autumnal frosts. In such a situation, no shrub can be more deserving of pee eg 
In its et, country, the late Dr. Gites, its discoverer, informed me that, « it is called by the na- 
tives Mal de Ojos, and that it is very abundant in the cultivated plains of Mendoza, where it has 
the benefit of the water used in irrigation; seeming to be incapable of living on the dry arid lands 
which are not under en Along the southern frontier of the province of Mendoza, between 
the rivers Diamante and Atuel, it. is found abundantly, with other shrubs, in sheltered situations ; 
also among thickets along the western side of the Rio Quarto, near the western bounda h 
Pampas; those plants growing in Buenos Ayres (where it is not unc ommon), owing their origin to 
the seeds sent from Mendoza. They do not ascend further than to the foot of the mountains, nei- 
