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longer. Stipules linear. Flowers panicled ; pedicels 

 opposite, mostly three - flowered j an odd flower 

 subsessile between the two terminal pedicels. 

 Corol, externally, light purple above, brownish 

 purple below, hairy at its convexity; internally 

 dark yellow below, amethystine above; exqui- 

 sitely fragrant, preferred by the bees to all other 

 flowers, and compared by the poets to the quiver 

 of Ca'made Va, or the God of Love. The whole 

 plant, except the root and stem, very downy and 

 viscid. The fruit can scarce be called a siligae, 

 since the seeds are nowhere affixed to the sutures ; 

 but their wings indicate the genus, which might 

 properly have been named Pterospertnori : they 

 are very hard, but enclose a white sweet kernel ; 

 and their light-coloured summits with three dark 

 points, give them the appearance of the winged in- 

 sects. Before I saw the fruit of this lovely plant, 

 I suspected it to be the Bignonia Chelonoides, 

 which Van Rheede calls Padri; and I conceived 

 that barbarous word to be a corruption of Pa tali -, 

 but the pericarp of the true Pa tali, and the form 

 of the seeds, differ so much from the Pddri$ that 

 we can hardly consider them as varieties of the 

 same species ; although the specific character ex- 

 hibited in the Supplement to JLinnjeus, corres- 

 ponds very nearly with both plants. 

 The Pa tali blossoms early in the spring, before a 



leaf appears on the tree, but the fruit is not ripe till 



the following winter. 



54. Go'cani'aca : 



Syh. 



