E ee with which they have hitherto been oe 
--— 25 per cent, of clean grain. In both species the chemical 
composition of the grain is remarkable for the quantity of albuminoids | 
it contains, and if the soft-shelled cultivated form of C. gigantea was — 
more prominently brought into notice, it might prove a much more | 
valuable cereal than many now in use in various parts of the tropies. ——— 
LXV.—YORUBA INDIGO. 
(Lonchocarpus cyanescens, Benth.) 
With Plate. 
_In the Kew — € for March 1888, p. 75, will be found a summary 
especial regard to 
eta qr back specimen ns from the iger the 
mination of the plant yielding Yoruba Aes c been keenly 
raised e ew by Captain 
Bo : 
mmunieated to us by Dr. Trimen, F.R.S., we are — 
ni de tham Trustees, to give a drawing of- 
n by Professor Oliver taken from the 
Linn. Soc, IV. x 
- 
ocarpus cyanescens, Journ. ue 
.) 96: a shrub of twining ee “belonging to the tribe Dalbergiee _ 
. Stem often 20 he 
od 4 to 8 
owed at both ends, sae 6 
ver Flora Trop. im ii, 2n; ; 
a, Schum. et Thonn, r Guin. = 
>r Rev, BAe Wood; 
'olone. 5 and perhaps the cun rm Š 
Oliver states: “This | 
