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a third of the species are peculiar to Polynesia; and there is scarcely 
ir vestige of affinity with the Australian or New Zealand flora. 
Indigofera disperma, Lin».— This was named and described as a 
species by Linnsus in the Appendix to the third volume of the 12th 
edition of the * S Eye Vegetabilium," page 232 (1768). It is founded 
a plant drawn by Ehret, which was published as table 55 in Trew's 
s "Plante Selectie d (1750-177 3). The figure is an excellent one and 
evidently represents a mere form of Sige, ide tinetoria, in w only 
two of the many ovule have matured. e species, however, seems to 
have passed unchallenged up to the present. It stands as a good one in 
De Candolle's Prodromus and the Jndex Kewensis. Our attention 
was drawn to it by receiving an application for seeds from the Director 
of the Botanic pee en of Buitenzorg. By Linneus the "py is 
simply given “in Indiis." In the Jndex Kewensis it stands as ** In 
Orientalis," but the name will be sought for in vain in Hooker's Flora 
of British India. 
Mummy Pea.—A very curious pea, of which the Director obtained 
seeds from Messrs. Thomas Sutton, of Eastbourne (who a that i bo 
car serrated leaflets, a white standard, dull Ps > ask wings, 
and a greenish-white keel. The seeds much resemble those of the 
wild Pisum elatius of the «Taie aet. region. Similar fasciated 
forms of the pea are figured by capio ontanus in his Herbal pub- 
country of Pisum sativum and P. arvense has never been satisfactorily 
ascertained. It is not unlikely that they: may be both cultivated races 
derived from P. Proin which extends in a wild state from F 
to Western 
ia. 
e name * Mummy Pea " is er applied to the non-fasciated form. 
(See Garden, 1894, Vol. IL, p. 118.) 
Jamaica Walnut.—Concerning the paragraph on this subject, p. 138 
of the current volume of the Bulletin, Dr. I. Urban n, who has made 
a special study of the Flora of the West Indies, writes to the effect 
that there are valid differences between the fruits of Juglans 
jamaicensis, C.DO, and J. insularis, Meg He further expresses his 
conviction that in this instance, at least, Descourtilz’s figure is an 
original and genuine one. We have not spr fruits of either the 
ortorico or Cuban Walnut : peg we are not in a position to 
verify Dr. Urban's era hd but, stated before, judging from 
the leaves, T can fin characier r3 "piri € them erhaps this 
notice may be the means iut our obtaining more complete material, 
Mr. Fawcett, the Director of the Public Gardens of Jamaica, who is 
