58 ICONES PLANTARUM. 
gyro triplici contorta, petalis ima basi liberis, cseternm in tubum clausum 
connatis. Genitalia inclusa (v. styli apex demum brevissime ex- 
sertum?). Legumen in speciminibus adhuc immaturom, 10-11 lin. 
longum 3-4 lin. diametro, glaberrimum. 
The affinities of this interesting plant appear to be the nearest with 
Sylitra. The aspect and calyx are those of an Argyrolubium, the pod 
that of a Crotalaria, and the spiral carina, which had induced Mr. 
Bolus to place it in Phaseolus, occurs here and there in various tribes 
of Papilionaces. 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Vexillum. 4. One of the wings. 5. 
Carina. 6. Stamens. 7. An anther of each description. 
Puate 1164. 
KOOMPASSIA MALACCENSIS, Maing. 
Lecuminosz Czsanpintes, Tribe Cassrez. 
Koompassia, Maing. gen. nov. Calycis tubus discifer subnullus ; 
segmenta 5, subvalvata, herbacea, crassiuscula. Petala 5 subsequalia. 
em 
latum. Stylus brevissime subulatus, stigmate terminali parvo. 
Legumen oblongum, compressum, ala cinctum, indehiscens. Semen 
mi yled , foliaces ; 
vis, recta.—Arbor. Folia impari pinnata, foliolis alternis. 
Flores parvi, cymulosi, cymulis in paniculas axillares y. terminales 
dispositis. 
K. malaccensis, Maing., species unica. 
Has. Malacca, Maingay. 
Ar realta. Partes novell et inflorescentia pube tennissima 
ata, demum co 
pennivenia et sub lente supra crebre foveolato-reticulata, subtus opaca 
et pallidiora, in speciminibus floridis et fructus juniores ferentibus ad 
2 poll. longa, in specimine fructu maturo duplo majora. Panicule in 
