ICONES PLANTARUM, 43 
medio 2 poll. latum, apice basique angustius, sutura seminifera 2- 
costata. Semina perfecta seepius 2, suborbiculata, plana. 
I gave a revised generic | character and described three spss of 
this tropical African genus in the Linnean ‘ Transactions,’ wie 
t. 42, to these Mr. Buchanan’s collections from the Shiré Highlands 
have added three more, the above P. longifolia and the two following, 
all distinguished from the previously aii -tbe ones by the looser 
spreading panicles 
B. floribunda, oath. foliis glabris, foliolis 3-jugis late oblongis 
ovatisve obtusis sessilibus yer com see racemis s latiuscule panicu- 
r 
villosissimo,— Ar wap ligno duro. rhachis tenuis, 
semipedalis ; foliola 3-4 poll. longa, 1-2 poll. lata, ein Paces gehen 
costa parum v. distincte excentrica, basi latere latiore seepe 2-3 nervia. 
Panicule in ramis annotinis fasciculate, 2-3- pollicares, a basi ‘ihial 
floribunda, rafo-pubescentes. racteolarum -paria in alabastro 
" same i 
B. globiflora, Benth., foliis pubescentibus, folfolis 5-7-jugis late 
oblongis obtusis basi valde i ineequalibus, racemis See laxeque panicu- 
latis, pedicellis brevissimis, ovario sessili villoso.—Arbor procera. 
Foliorum inferiorum rhachis seepe pedalis, foliolis ‘3-4 poll. longis 13 
poll. latis, ramorum floralium folio la _ minora et _angustiora. 
Panicula terminalis, foliata, ampla, v. in panicule breves 
ramis valde divaricatis recurvis. Prebloclavant paria in alabastro 
globosa, fere 2 lin. diametro. Sepala interdum parum breviora, et 
petala linearia ree in ceeteris ma Acigept evidentiora. Legumen 2- 
pollicare, 2 poll. latam.—G. Ban 
lower showing ~ srg bats yee . the ger two of the petals, 
ti sepal, 3. A pe 
nrg 
— Sie 
the stamens we as 
leciontion section. 
Pistil. 5. Ovary, 
Puate 1361. 
MICRAIRA SUBULIFOLITA, F. Mueil. 
-GraMrnea, Tribe ISACHNES. 
M. subulifolia, F. Muell., Fragm. Phyt. Austral., v. 20°. 
Has. Queensland, hilly districts, on rocks, — comb 
covering them in dense masses, Dallacky and other 
