238 CALCYCIFLOR.E. 



1 . * Ormosia dasycarpa. Red Bead-tree. 

 Leaves impari-pinnate 4-6-jugate, leaflets acumin- 

 ate glabrous, legumes tomentose. 



Glycine arboreum, foliis oblongis, seminibus majoribus, 

 Browne, 298. Sophora monosperma, Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. 



722 Ormosia dasycarpa, Jacks. Trans. Linn. <Soc. X. 360. 



E. Brown, H. Keit}. ed. 2. III. 3. 



HAB. ? 



' FL. April. 



A tree, 10 feet in height: branches ferrugineo-tomentose. 

 Panicle terminal, many-flowered : flowers large, blue, fragrant. 

 Legume ovate, villous, 2-valved, 1 -seeded; seed large, spherical, 

 scarlet, marked with a black spot. Swartz. 



Browne informs us that he met with this plant in Montserrat ; 

 and Swartz gives it, on the authority of Dr Anderson, as a 

 native of the West-India islands. I am inclined to doubt its 

 being indigenous to this Island. 



Tribe II. Lotece. 



Legumes continuous. Stamens with the filaments 

 concrete. 



III. CROTALARIA. Rattle-wort. 



Calyx 5-lobed, sub-bilabiate ; upper lip 2-fid, the 

 under 3-fid. Stamens large, cordate ; keel falcate, 

 acuminate. Filaments connected ; sheath generally 

 divided above. Style laterally barbato-pubescent. 

 Legume turgid, with the valves ventricose, inflated, 

 generally many-seeded, pedicelled De Cand. 



Herbs or shrubs ; leaves simple, or palmato- compound, 3- 

 (or rarely) 5-foliate ; flowers generally yellow ; bracteoles very 

 small, at the base of the pedicels, or of the calyx. KgoraXov, 

 was the name of a noisy Greek instrument, similar to the cym- 

 bals, or, according to some, to the castanets of the present day. 

 It applies to the present genus, from the seeds rattling, when 

 ripe, in the inflated pods, and occasioning a noise. The flowers 

 of many of the species deserve, in some degree, the name of 

 beautiful. They do not however possess any valuable or pecu- 

 liar qualities. 



1. Crotalarift verrucosa. Warted Rattle-wort. 

 Stipules lunated declinate, leaves simple oval, 



