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the length of the wings, with two distinct claws. Nectary a 

 glandular, cylindrical socket, within the sheath of the stamina, 

 surrounding the pedicel of the germ, with mouth oblique, 

 obscurely five-toothed, the upper toothlets longer. Stamens 

 filaments diadelphous (simple and nine cleft) with apices 

 ascending, the length of the keel. Anthers oblong erect. 

 Pistil germ pedicelled, acinaciform. villous ; Style subulate, 

 ascending, a little longer than the Stamina : Stigma acute. 

 Legume large, subovate, sharp at both ends: the upper suture 

 gibbous; compressed smooth. Seed, one, ovate, very large. 



Hedysarum. 



Hcdysarum purpuremn, Boxb. ^Desiiwdiurn pohjcarpinn). 



" Shrubby, lower branches diffuse, and longer than the 

 upright stern. Leaves threed : leaflets oval, entire : Stipules 

 daggered. Racemes terminal, before expansion strobiliform. 

 Legumes six-seeded, notched on the under side." 



IKDIGOFERA. 



Inditjofera tinctoria . 



Experiments have been made on the cultivation and 

 manufacture of this dye. It is said to have thriven remark- 

 ably and yielded abundance of faecula, of a good quality. But 

 the attempt was laid aside on account of the high price of 

 labour. 



POLYADELPHIA— DECANDEIA. 

 The ob rum a. 



1. Thcobroma cacao. 



A few plants in the Honourable Company's spice planta- 

 tion. 



2. T. guazuma. Several, in the same place. 



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