LEGUMINOS.E. CCXCIV. PALOVEA. CCXCV. ALOEXYLON. CCXCVI. AMARIA, &c. 



rica, and the French in Canada pickle them. The wood is of 

 the same colour and texture as that of the first species. The 

 legumes stand on a long pedicel, and are apiculated at the apex 

 by a longer style. The young branches dye wool of a very 

 fine colour. The tree is called red-bud in America. 



Tar. J3, pubksccns (Pursh, fl. ainer. sept. p. 308.) leaves pu- 

 bescent beneath. 



Canadian Judas-tree. Fl. May, June. Clt. 1730. Tree 12 

 to 20 feet. 



Cult. These trees are usually planted with other flowering 

 trees and shrubs as ornaments to pleasure grounds, and for their 

 singular beauty deserve a place in every garden and shrubbery ; 

 for when the trees have arrived at a pretty good size the 

 branches are so thickly beset with flowers as scarcely to be seen, 

 and the singular shape of their leaves makes a very agreeable 

 variety in summer. They are generally raised from seeds, which 

 should be sown about the end of March on a bed of light earth ; 

 they may also be propagated by layers, but plants raised from 

 seeds thrive best. 



CCXCIV. PALO'VEA (an alteration from the Guiana name 

 of the shrub). Aubl. guian. 1. p. 365. t. 141. Lam. ill. t. 323. 

 D. C. prod. 2. p. 518. Ginnania, Scop, ex Schreb. gen.no. G91. 

 Neck. elem. no. 1285. 



LIN. SYST. Enneandria, Monogynia. Bracteoles 2 under the 

 calyx, joined into a 2-lpbed involucel; tube of calyx obco- 

 nical, exserted from the involucel, with a 4-5-lobed limb ; lobes 

 spreading. Petals 3-4, deciduous, the inner one bearing some- 

 thing like a sterile anther. Stamens 9, exserted beyond the 

 tube of the calyx ; filaments free, very long, subulate, replicate 

 before the expansion of the flowers, as in the order Melasloma- 

 ccce. Anthers when young linear, 2-celled, straight, fixed by 

 the middle. Ovary stipitate, linear, compressed. Style filiform, 

 glabrous, biplicate when young, crowned by a roundish stigma. 

 Legume (ex Aubl.) oblong, compressed, 2-valved, 1-celled, 6-7- 

 seeded. A shrub, with alternate, elliptic, quite entire, glabrous 

 leaflets, which are acuminated at both ends, and pedicellate 

 flowers, which are disposed in umbels at the tops of the branches. 

 Pedicels bracteate. 



1 P. GUIANE'NSIS (Aubl. 1. c.) tj . S. Native of Guiana, in 

 woods. Corolla red. 



Guiana Palovea. Shrub 5 to 6 feet. 



Cult. For culture and propagation see Baulnnia, p. 463. 



CCXCV. ALOFXYLON (from aXor,, aloe, of Dioscorides, 

 the Aloe, and v\o>>, xylon, wood ; this tree produces the aloes- 

 wood of the shops). Lour, cochin, p. 267. D. C. prod. 2. 

 p. 518. 



LIN. SYST. Decandria, Monogynia. Calyx of 4 sepals or 4- 

 parted ; sepals acute, deciduous, lower one falcate, incurved, 

 nearly twice the length of the rest. Petals 5, unequal, longer 

 than the calyx. Stamens 10, distinct. Ovary compressed, 

 curven. Style filiform. Legume woody, smooth, falcate, 1- 

 seeded. Seed oblong, curved, arillate. A tree, with erect 

 branches, simple, alternate, lanceolate, quite entire, petiolate 

 leaves, and terminal flowers. This genus is hardly known. 



1 A. AGALLOCHUM (Lour. 1. c.) fj . G. Native of Cochin- 

 china, on, the highest mountains, and the Molucca Islands. 

 Rumph. amb. 2. p. 29. t. 9. ex Lour. Cynometra Agallocha, 

 Spreng. syst. 2. p. 327. The wood is white and scentless, and 

 has long been used as a perfume. Aloes-wood is held in high 

 estimation in the East on account -of its fragrant odour as a per- 

 fume, for which purpose it is applied to clothes and apartments, 

 and as a cordial medicine in fainting fits, and in cases of para- 

 lytic affection. By the Chinese and Heathen Moors it was used 

 as incense in their sacrifices ; and employed for setting the most 



precious jewels that are wrought in the East Indies. It was 

 formerly deemed in that part of the world of greater value than 

 gold, and various fables have been invented as to the origin of 

 the tree that yields it. Some have feigned that it grew in Para- 

 dise, and that it was conveyed from thence by the rivers, which 

 overflowed their banks, and swept off the trees in their way. 

 Others pretend that it grows on inaccessible mountains, where it 

 is guarded by wild beasts. The calambac or eagle-wood should 

 not be confounded with the aloes-wood. See Aquilaria, 



Agallocha or Aloes-wood. Tree 60 feet. 



Cult. For culture and propagation see Bauhinia, p. 463. 



CCXCVI. AMA'RIA (meaning unknown). Seb. Mutis in 

 sem. nuev. gran. 1810. p. 25. D. C. prod. 2. p. 519. 



LIN. SYST. Monadelphia, Decandria. Calyx cylindrical, 

 rounded at the base, permanent, 5-cleft ; lobes linear, cohering 

 at the apex, and dehiscent on the sides. Petals 5, equal, ob- 

 ovate, spreading, keeled from the base to the apex. Stamens 

 10, subulate, erect, monadelphous at the base. Ovary oblong, 

 stipitate ; stipe adnate to the calyx. Style filiform, crowned by 

 a capitate stigma. Legume very long, compressed, pedicellate, 

 torose at the seeds, 1-celled, 2-valved, dehiscent Seeds many, 

 roundish, compressed. American shrubs, with simple cordate 

 leaves. This genus is unknown to European botanists, but it 

 appears to be allied to Jonesia, from the stipitate ovary, and in 

 the stipe adhering to the calyx. 



1 A. PETIOLA'TA (Seb. Mutis. 1. c.) leaves petiolate ; flowers 

 terminal. ^ . S. Native of New Granada, in the temperate 

 parts. 



Petiolate-leaveA Amaria. Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 



2 A. SESSILIFOLIA (Seb. Mutis. 1. c.) leaves sessile, almost 

 stem-clasping ; flowers axillary ; peduncles many-flowered. Ij . 

 S. Native of New Granada, in temperate places. 



Sessile-leaved Amaria. Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 



Cult. For culture and propagation see Bauhinia, p. 463. 



CCXCVII. BOWDI'CHIA(inhonourof T. E. Bowdich, who 

 was sent on a mission to Ashantee in Western Africa). H. B. et 

 Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 6. p. 376. D. C. prod. 2. p. 519. 



LIN. SYST. Decandria, Monogynia. Calyx turhinately cam- 

 panulate, 5-toothed ; teeth acute, erect, 2 superior ones approxi- 

 mate. Petals 5, free, disposed in a kind of papilionaceous man- 

 ner, lateral ones the longest. Stamens 10? free. Legume sti- 

 pitate, 10-ovulate, compressed, membranous, winged on the 

 seminiferous suture, 1-celled, indehiscent. Embryo straight. 

 An unarmed tree, with impari-pinnate leaves, clothed with rusty 

 tomentum beneath, as also the branches. Flowers violaceous. 



1 B. viRGitioloEs (H. B. et Kunth, 1. c.) ^ . S. Native of 

 South America, near Barbula, Lavilla del Pao, and at the mouth 

 of the Orinoco, where it is commonly called Alcornoco, Leaflets 

 13, lanceolate-oblong, obtuse at both ends. 



Virgilia-lifte Bowdichia. Tree. 



Cult. For culture and propagation see BauVinia, p. 463. 



CCXC VIII. CRU'DYA ( Crudy, the name of a person who 

 communicated the first specimen of the tree to Schreber). Willd. 

 spec. 2. p. 539. D. C. prod. 2. p. 519. Crudya et Cy'clas, 

 Schreb. gen.no. 711. and 712. Apalatoa, Touchiroa, Vourana, 

 and Parivoa species, Aubl. guian. Touchiroa, Rich. mss. 

 Waldschmidtia, Neck. elem. no. 1445. 



LIN. SYST. Octo-Decdndria, Monogynia. Calyx bibracteate 

 at the base, with the tube short and obconical, and the limb 

 4-cleft and spreading. Petals wanting. Stamens 8-10, exserted 

 from the tube of the calyx, long, free, rather dilated at the base. 

 Ovary ovate, hairy, rather stipitate. Style filiform. Legume coria- 



