HUMBOLDTIA UNIJUGA. (Nat. order LeguminosEe.) 



HrjMBOLDTIA. Vahl. — GEN". CHAR. The disk-bearing tube of the calyx turbinate or narrow, segments 4 subequal colored imbricate, 

 petals eitber 5 subequal sessile oblong imbricate, or 3 subequal, and 2 rudimentary or wanting, stamenB 5 perfect with or without as many alternate teeth- 

 like staminodes, or 10 purfect, filaments free iuserted either at the base of the calyx tubs or at the apex of the disk, exserted, anthers ovate or oblong 

 versatile, cells dehiscing longitudinally, ovary stipitate, stipe actuate to the calyx tube, few ovuled, style filiform, stigma terminal clavato-capitate. Legumes 

 oblong oblique or falcate compressed coriaceous 2-valved, seed transverse ovate compressed exarillate, albumen of cotyledons flat, radicle short straight, 

 included. Large or middling sized trees unarmed, leaves abruptly pinnate, stipules foliaceous obliquely reniform or semisagittate, flowers racemose, 

 braetes ovate or oblong, braeteoles colored enclosing the flower bud. — Batschia, Vahl. (not Linn.) 



HUMBOLDTIA UNIJUGA. (Bedd.) A tree, young parts minutely strigose otherwise glabrous, leaves alternate abruptly 

 pinnate, common petioles about 2 lines long, leaflets only one pair with a flat depressed gland at their insertion on the apes of the 

 petioles, sub-sessile narrow-lanceolate very unequal at the base, and with a long acumiuation at the apex, 5-7 inches long 1 J to 2 

 broad, stipule semi-ovate acuminate very unequal sided about | inch long, flowers crimson on very short racemes from the trunk and 

 older boughs and more rarely from the younger branchlets, peduncles -| to 1 inch long, pedicels slender J to 1 inch long furnished 

 with 2 oblong minutely pubescent braeteoles at the apes just below the calyx, calyx with a short tube 5 parted, segments oblong more 

 than twice as' long as the braeteoles minutely pubescent, corol 5 parted, one half longer than the calyx lobes, broad oblong, stamens 5 

 all fertile inserted alternate with the petals on to the hairy apex of the calyx tube, filaments glabrous except at their base, staminodia 

 none, ovary stipitate hairy 2-3 ovuled, stipe adnate to the wall of the calyx tube, legume unknown. Bedd. Icones tab. 107. 



This very handsome middling sized tree I have only found on. the Travancore ghats in the dense forests a little below the Attraymallay, 

 3000-4000 feet elevation, but most abundant in that locality ; it was in flower in January and is said to yield a very hard durable timber. 



Fig. A in the plate is the legume of H. Brunonis. 



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