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about a line in length, which immediately subtend the calyx, and are 

 early caducous. Calyx campanidate, 3 lines long, truncate or even, 

 manifestly four-toothed with broad and very obtuse teeth, the upper 

 one broader, but not otherwise larger, and emarginately two-lobed, so 

 that the calyx appears five-toothed. Corolla papilionaceous, red, 

 apparently bright purplish red: petals thin. Vexillum ovate-oblong, 

 acute, an inch or an inch and a quarter in length, complicate and 

 more or less recurved-falcate in the bud, at length spreading or 

 recurved; the base raised on a very short claw (a line and a half 

 long), appendiculate on each margin by a strongly inflexed membrane; 

 the face callose as if by an adherent membrane, which is denticulate 

 at the upper edge, and produced on each side into a free and salient 

 auricle or lamella. Aloe small, less than half the length of the vexil- 

 lum, the lamina obliquely obovate and falcate, very obtuse, 4 or 5 

 lines long, on a claw of about 3 lines long, appressed to the carina 

 and partly adherent to its face. Carina about the length of the vexil- 

 lum, falcate and incurved, complicate, acuminately beaked, unguiculate, 

 its two petals cohering by their anterior edges for the whole length 

 more or less firmly. Stamens 10, diadelphous ; the tenth filament 

 wholly distinct, not geniculate; the others united to the middle: 

 anthers oblong, similar, or five alternate ones a little shorter and sub- 

 cordate. Ovary raised on a stipe which is at length longer than itself 

 and as long as the calyx, glabrous, compressed, one-ovuled, or more 

 frequently tico-ovided; the ovules then superposed. Style capillary, 

 very long, exceeding the stamens, gradually incurved with the carina : 

 the stigma terminal, capitellate, and minutely penicillate. Legume 

 unknown. 



The specimen from the Feejee Islands, a very imperfect one, has 

 shorter racemes and ovate-oblong leaflets. The latter, however, are 

 said by Vogel to be "oblong" in Chamisso's specimens; while in all 

 of ours from the Sandwich Islands they are ovate-rotund. No other 

 difference is noted, 



Plate 48. — Strongtlodon ruber: portion of a flowering specimen, 

 of the natural size. Fig. 1. A young flower-bud, with the bractlets. 

 2. Calyx, in anthesis. 3. Corolla displayed. 4. Stamens and pistil, 

 displayed. 5. Pistil and its stipe ; the ovary longitudinally divided, 

 to show the ovules.— The details variously enlarged. 



