﻿ADDITIONS. 



Page 154. Note. The gunja, I find, is the 

 Abrus of our botanists ; and I venture to describe if; 

 from the wild plant compared with a beautiful draw- 

 ing of the flower magnified, with which I was favoured 

 by Dr. Anderson. 



Class XVII. Order IV. 



Cal. Perianth funnel-shaped, indented above. 

 Cor. Cymbiform ; Awning roundish, pointed, 

 nerved. 



Wings lanced, shorter than the awning. 



Keel rather longer than the wings. 



Stam. Filaments nine, some shorter ; united in two 

 sets at the top of a divided, bent, awl-shaped body. 



Pist. Germ inserted in the calyx. Style very mi- 

 nute at the bottom of the divided body. Stigma, to 

 the naked eye, obtuse; in the microscope, feathered. 



Per. A legume. Seeds, spheroidal 3 black or white, 

 or scarlet with black tips. 



Leaves pinnated ; some with, some without, an 

 odd leaflet. 



Page 361. See the Plate Fig. 1. The female in- 

 sect in its larva state. 2. The egg, which produces 

 the male. 3. The male insect. 4. The head with 

 jointed antennas. 5. The wings on one side. 

 The preceding figures are much magnified, but in 

 just proportion. 6. A piece of Lac, of its natural 

 size. 7. The inside of the external coat of the cells. 

 8. One of the utriculi. The two last figures are a lit- 

 tle magnified. 



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