Puate 2702. 
CHISALPINIA ROSTRATA, JN. £. Brown. 
Lecuminosm. Tribe CaH¥sSALPINIE®. 
C. rostrata, V. HL. Brown (sp. nov.) ; species ab omnibus hucusque 
sngeteae sepalo inferiore rostrato distinctissima. 
oe secingrorete 8- pedali s. Rami aculeati, cortice cinereo ; ; 
ol]. longi, mul ri. actee caduce, submembranaceex, orbiculate, 
a. emarginate, aristate, profunde concave, Tubree, | puberule. 
n. longi 
brunnee, polline ium ovatum, compressum, 6-ovulatum, 
glabrum ; stylus Bitten filiformis. Legwmen 14 nec longum, 10 lin 
latum, oblongum, oblique truncatum, turgidum, glabrum 
South Arrica: Figured and described from specimens of a plant 
cultivated in the Botanic Garden, Durban, Natal, raised from seed 
received from Delagoa Bay, Wood, 7934. 
This species differs from all the others ie present known in having 
the lower sepal very distinctly beaked. r. Wood states that it has 
not yet perfected seed at Durban.—N. E. pasied 
Fig. 1, ra are bract from base of pedicel ; 2, flower-bud ; 3, upper petal; 4, a 
lateral petal ; 5, cium; 6, lower portion of andreecium and gyneceum in section ; 
7, pod. Pull peter 7 enlarged 
