284 BOTANICAL OBSERVATIONS 



Awning - like, two, inverse - egged, erect ; claws 

 shorter. 



Keel-like, one, oblong, concave ; enclosing the fruc- 

 tification ; beyond it, spatuled ; longer than the 

 wing- petals. 



Stam. Filaments five, fertile; three bent over the 

 pistil : two shorter, inserted into the claws of the 

 middle petals. Anthers twin, rather mooned, ob- 

 tuse, incumbent. Fhe steril (often four only) 

 alternate with the fertile, shorter; their bases 

 villous. 



Fist. Germ oblong, coloured, villous; below it a 

 nectar-bearing gland. Style shorter than the stamen, 

 rather downy, curved, thicker above. Stigma 

 simple. 



Per. Legume very long, slender, wreathed, pointed, 

 three-sided, channelled, prominent with seeds, one- 

 celled. 



Seeds many, winged, three-sided. 



Tree very high; branches in an extreme degree 

 light and beautiful, rich with clustering flowers. 

 Stem exuding a red gum. Leaves mostly thrice- 

 feathered with an odd one ; leaflets some inverse- 

 egged, some egged, some oval, minutely end- nick- 

 ed. Raceme -panicles mostly axillary. In perfect 

 flowers the whole caylx is quite deflected, counter- 

 feiting five petals ; whence Van Rheede made it a 

 part of the corol. Corals delicately odorous ; milk- 

 white, but the two central erect petals beauti- 

 fully tinged with pink. The root answers all the 

 purposes of our horse-radish, both for the table 



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