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racter, except that the calyx is obscurely toothed, and the ovary 

 contains several ovules (accumulated in the middle of the cell) ; the 

 legume of which is equally unknown. If this be admissible, we shall 

 have a genus differing from Spatholobus in the characters above- 

 mentioned, from Erythrina (including Micropteryx, &c.) in the form of 

 the corolla, in its stipels, and especially in habit, and from both in 

 the appendiculate and bicallose vexilhcm. 



1. Strongylodon ruber, Yogel. (Tab. 48.) 



8. foliolis ovatis membranaceis ; racemis folio duplo longioribus ; pedi- 

 cellis flore cpquilongis ; calyce basi bibracteolato manifeste quadri- 

 quinquedentato, dentibus obtuswsimisj carina falcato-incurva ; ovario 

 uni—biovulato. 



Strongylodon ruber, Vogel, in Linnasa, 10, p. 585. 



Mucuna altissima, Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech. Voj. p. 81, quoad specimen. 



Harpsetropis speciosus, Nutt. in Herb. Hook. 



Hab. Sandwich Islands: on the Kaala Mountains behind Hono- 

 lulu, Oahu : in forests on the side of Mouna Loa, Hawaii. (Also 

 gathered by Chamisso, Macrae, Diell, Barclay, Nuttall, &c.) Ovolau. 

 Feejee Islands : in forests. 



" A woody, twining vine," with slender herbaceous branches, gla- 

 brous throughout. Stipules ovate, obtuse, striate, free, persistent. 

 Petioles 3 or 4 inches long. Leaves pinnately trifoliolate. Stipels 

 subulate-setaceous, rather persistent. Leaflets ovate, varying from 

 roundish to oblong-ovate, more or less acuminate, 2h to 5 inches long, 

 membranaceous in texture, green, both sides of nearly the same hue, 

 triplinerved, the minuter veinlets reticulated : petiolules 3 lines long, 

 exceeding the stipels. Rcwemes axillary, at least twice the length of 

 the leaves, 10 to 18 inches in length, including the peduncle, ascend- 

 ing; the rhachis multinodal, each node fasciculately about three- 

 flowered, or rarely bearing a partial peduncle which is three-flowered 

 at its apex, so that the raceme becomes somewhat paniculate. Bracts 

 minute? caducous. Pedicels an inch long, equalling the developed 

 flower in length, filiform, naked, bearing a pair of ovate bractlets, of 



