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Th fruit i is a true legumen, about 6 inches long, and 2 broad; the 
base is somewhat Sent the apex rather blunt. . The valves are 
vus smooth, an ; there i is no thickened margin close to the 
: e valves are ce of a consistency like parchment, and quite 
dh inside The splitting vice on the distal end, and there i is some 
r starch is used, just as Humboldt says, even to-day for. 
kite, expecially for a certain kind of little tarts, which are said 
ha n the s adhering to the ventral suture of a half-opened 
0 ahoni a have ‘loti they belonged to a bignoniaceous genus. 
em spongy structure of the integuments may have some bi 
Spruce states, on the label of a specimen of Campsiandra laurifolia, 
in the Kew Herbarium, that “on the Orinoco this, or a closely 
prio Campsiandra affords a considerable ec 
enance f Ind 
egro, in times of kenmei tlo toads of nearly every Jarge-friisud 
‘is uses in the same way 
. I got latel 
y with the deseription of thi | same organ sat by Poeppig and 
rin ms C. rosea (Walper's Rep. Bot. V., 568). 
y, we have a letter from Dr. Ernst, dated 2nd February 1889 = 
which he states that he had at last obtained “one small branch of 
yielding "a flour, ath leaves and flowers. It now proves. 
i mpsiandra comosa, Periit and the rigen given in 
n Bo es SY tice, toi e deae y Me 
