2o6 DESCRIPTION OF THE MUSEUM. 



individual of the tamarind ; the hura crepitans, 

 or sand box-tree, the fruit of which is common 

 in cabinets ; the tamnus elephantipes , elephant- 

 foot black bryony, brought from Caffraria by 

 M. Lalande, singular for the enormous channelled 

 and glandulous tubercle which gives rise to the 

 stems ; the Caroline a princeps, digitated caro- 

 linea, brought from Schoenbrunn by M. Bonpland, 

 and the carolinea insignis, great flowered caro- 

 linea, raised from seeds gathered in the Brazils by 

 M. Auguste St. Hilaire, two superb trees remark- 

 able for their large digitated leaves, and for their 

 flowers which are ten inches in diameter and fur- 

 nished with innumerable stamina ; an adansonia 

 baobab, brought from Cayenne by M. Perrottet, 

 which is seven feet high and of vigorous growth, 

 but which we have no expectation of seeing in 

 bloom ; at Senegal this tree is from 25 to 3o feet 

 in diameter, and by the calculation of Adanson is 

 capable of vegetating at least four thousand years: 

 and lastly, an araucaria, or Chili pine, also reared 

 from seeds furnished by M. de St. Hilaire, which 

 is already three feet high, and which will soon be 

 sent into the orangery : hopes are entertained of 

 multiplying it in the south of France, where, if it 

 a ttains the same dimensions as in its native coun- 

 try, it will be of eminent utility for the masts of 

 vessels. 



