LEGUMINOSJE. 816 



leaves 4"-3" diam., coriaceous, glabrous above, slightly puberuloiis on the nerves beneath and 

 glabrescent, rusty -coloured : nerves immersed above, prominent beneath : petiole 2"— 1" long ; 

 racemes elongated, often compound at the base ; flowers nodding, " odorous," 6'" long : pe- 

 dicel 3'" long ; buds ovate, striate, coutracted at the minutely denticulate top ; calyx 3'" long : 

 lips shorter than the ventricose tube, one 2-, the other 3-denticulate ; petals obovate-oblong ; 

 ovary villous, sessile; legume curved, flat-compressed, sericeous, shortly stipltate, apiculate, 

 IV'long. — Hab. Trinidad 1, O., atlrais; [Panama!]. 



70. ETABALLIA, Benth. 



" Calyx tubular, shortly .5-dentate to subbilabiate. Petals 5, inserted near the base of the 

 calyx-tube. Stamens 10, monadelphous. Ovary^ subsessile : stigina obliquely capitate. 

 Legume . . . . — Trees ; leaflets single, penninerved ; flowers spicate." 



194. E. macropbylla, Benth. " leaves large, blunt ; spikes, very large." — " Leaves 

 coriaceous, glabrous, 8"-9" long ; petals linear." — Hab. S. Vincent (JBenth.). 



71. PRIORIA, Gr. 



Calyx surrounded by a minute, slightly bilobed involucel, coloured, 5-partite. Petals 0. 

 Stamens 10, distinct. Ovary sessile, 1-ovulate : disc filling up the calyx-tube. Legume 

 , . . . — ^Atree: habit of Copaifera; le&ves airupily pinnate, pellacid-dotted : leaflets large, 

 2-l.JMgal; &oweis in compound spiies. i^ 



This new geuns is dedicated to Dr. Alexander Prior, one of the chief promoters of this 

 Flora. The affinity of Prioria with Copaifera is obvious, and traces of a ring (comparable to 

 the involucel of the former) exist at the base of the ebractcate calyx of the latter. The calyx 

 of Prioria might easily be taken for a corolla : but the correct view of the structm'e seems 

 to result from the involucel being free from the calyx-tube, the perigynous insertion of the 



- stamens, the inferior fifth calyx-segment (which is exterior in the bud), and the homologous 

 organs of Copaifera. 



^, 195. P. copaifera, Gr. A very large, spreading, glabrous tree; leaves evergreen, co- 

 riaceous : leaflets 4 (-3), obliquely eUiptical or elliptical-oblong, petiolulate, bluntish, reticu- 

 lated with prominnlous veins on both sides, &"-^' long, 4"-3" broad : common petiole 1" 

 between, S'^-B'" long below the pairs, petiolnles thickish, 3'" long; panicles terminal, 

 subfascicled, usually large, 1' long, interrupted, the alternate subsessile spikes being 4"'-6"' 

 distant from each other, and 4" (-3") long ; flowers clustered or solitary, and about 1'" distant 

 from each other, supported by a very minute roundish bract ; involucel exceeding the bract, 

 ^"' long : lobes broadly rounded or subtruncate ; calyx-tube turbinate, exceeding the invo- 

 lucel, sessile, i'" long: segments oval, ciliate, equal, imbricate, 1'" long, half as long as the 

 hairy equal filaments ; anthers incumbent, oval-oblong : cells distinct, curved ; ovary hairy. 

 Sessile above the calyx-tube, obliquely ovate, ^ as long as the filiform style : stigma minute : 

 ovule hanging from the upper part of the suture, hemitropous.-^HAB. Jamaica !, W^ils., 

 rare at Bachelor's Hall, near Bath. 



73. COPAIFERA, L. 



Calyx coloured, 4-partite. Petals 0. Stamens 10, distinct. Legume stipitate, obliquely 

 ovoid, coriaceous, bivalved, 1-seeded. Radicle inferior, — ^Trees ; leaves pinnate, often pelht- 

 dd-dotted; fiowers in compound, spiciform racemes. 



196. O. officinalis, Jacq. (Amer. Pict. p. 67). Leaves abruptly pinnate : leaves 5-1- 

 jugal, coriaceous, unequal-sided, obliquely ovate, with a bluntish point, glabrous, pellucid- 

 dotted ; racemes slightly puberulous ; legume ovoid-globose, slightly compressed, glabrous : 

 carpophore very short. — Jacq. Amet. Pict. t. 138; — C. Jaoquini, Serf. — A high tree ; leaf- 

 lets 3" (-1") long, usually alternate, one of. the uppermost often abortive ; calyx white, 2'" 

 long. — Hab. S. Vincent 1, Guild.; Trinidad!, Siei. Trin. 55, Cr.; [Venezuela]. 



73. CRUDYA, W. 

 Calyr-tube turbinate ; limb 4-partite. Petals 0. Stamens 8-10, distinct, inserted with 



