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Gry. Cuan. ‘Calyx campanulate, 5-cleft: segments erect, the 
‘apper and lower one a little larger: petals 5, oblong, somewhat 
oriateous, nearly equal, sessile, long, inserted on the mouth of the 
‘calyx and a little longer than its lobes: sstivation sub-imbricate : 
stamens alternate with the petals: filaments broad at the base, 2-3 
‘times longer than the petals, straight: ovary long, stalked, free 
from the calyx, oblong-linear, faleate, with the short incurved acute 
‘style, many-ovuled : legume unknown. 
(1) A.-rrRaxinivorius, (d?n.) 
- Ident. Wight’s Ill. I. p.-198. 
- Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 254. 
‘Spec. Cuan. Large tree: leaves alternate, unequally pinnate, 
deciduous ; leaflets 3-4 pair, lanceolate, acuminated, somewhat un- 
equal at the base, paler beneath: racemes spike-like, 6—8-inches in 
length, thickly covered with flowers: pedicels recurved: flowers 
largish, scarlet. 
Forests of Courtallum, flowering in February, when almost destix 
tute of Teaves. 
GENUS LXXXIX. NICOLSONIA. 
Diadelphia Deeandria. Ser: Syit: 
. Deriv, Called after Mons. Nicolson, author. of an Essay on the 
Natural History of St. Domingo. 
Gen. Cuan. Calyx 5-parted: segments lanceolate: corolla pa- 
pilionaceous, shorter than the calyx: leaves pinnately trifoliate: 
racemes terminal: legumes straight, composed of numerous half- 
orbicular 1-seeded joints. 
(1) N. concesta. (R. W.) 
Ident. Wight’s Icon. vol. III. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 1056. 
Srec. Cuar. Suffruticose, very diffuse, procumbent: all the 
young parts except the upper surface of the leaves pubescent or 
hairy: leaves 3 or by abortion 1-foliolate.; leaflets elliptic or sub- 
orbicular : calyx-segments subulate, hairy: legume 1-seeded : 
flowers congested on the extremities of the branches, bluish-purple. 
Common on the banks of the Pycarrah River, Neilgherries. 
Ootacamund, rare. 
4% 
GENUS XC. MACRONYX. 
Decandria Monogynia. Sez: Syst: 
_ Deriv. From Macros, long, and Onyz, a claw, in.allusion to 
the long claws of the petals, 
