3JO A DESCRIPTION OF 



base (club-funnel-shaped) and there impervious ? 

 border four-parted ; divison spreading, suborbi- 

 cular; margins most slightly woolly : one-third 

 the length of the tube. 



Nectary a stimeniferous and pistiliferous ring 

 crowns the mouth of the tube. 



Stamens, filaments (generally) seven, and seven 

 must, I think, be the natural number ; viz, three 

 on each side, and one below, above a vacancy, as 

 if the place of an eight filament, and is occupied 

 on its inside by the pistil ; they are equal, dis- 

 tinct, ascending, from three to four times longei 

 than the border of the corol. 



Anthers uniform, small, incumbent. 



Pistil, germ oblong, pediceled; pedicel inserted 

 into the inside of the nectary, immediately below 

 the vacant space already mentioned ; Style nearly 

 as long as the stamens, declining ; Stigma simple. 



Pericarp, legume scimitar-form, turgid, outside 

 reticulated, otherwise pretty smooth, from six to 

 ten inches long, and about two broad. 



Seeds generally from four to eight, smooth; gre\ , 

 size of a large chesnut. 



Note. Many of the flowers have only the rudiment 

 of a pistil : a section of one of these is seen at D. 



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