390 PLANTAE AMERICANAE. 



cow and of the fame fhape. The tefticles 

 were fituated under the belly before the 

 -penis ^ which was turned backwards. 



IV. 171. PISCIPULA (PISCIDIA) Erythri- 

 na. Sp. PL 707. n. 3. 2.993. i- Barbafco 

 vulgo. 



The figure of the flower fhews that it is not 

 a fpecies of the Erythrina, but rather a 

 diftindl genus. 

 En defcriptionem ! 



Arbor magna f. n:ediocris. 



Caulis arborefcens, 9, 10, ic^ orgy arum aititu- 

 diiie, trunco inaequali, fuperne in ramos 

 adfccndentes, rariufculou divifo : r^;;wi ere- 

 diis, alternis, teretibus, glabris. 



Folia alterna, ad fummitates ramaorum pinnata. 



Flores in racemis alternis, erec^lis, copiofis, 

 digitalibus et ultra, fparfis. Racemi com- 

 pofiti racemulis fparfis, alternis, lateralibus, 

 patcntibus. Singulis i, 2 /^r^^j fuboppofitos 

 fparfoque peduhculatos proferentibus. Ve- 

 dunctdis 4, 5 linearum longitudine, fimpli- 

 cibus, patenti-ereflis, fmgulis unifloris. 



Cal. Ferianthium monophyllum, tubulatum, 

 leviter comprciTum, bafi glabriufculum, 

 duarum vel trium linearum longitudine et 

 fere fimile diametro furfum ad inferiora, 

 quinquedentarum : dentibus fuperioribus 

 binis, magis ^pproximatis, obtufioribi s •, 



minoril:u3 



