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with the five capsules open and garnished 

 with seeds ; the species of cocoa described by 

 M. Bonpland ; the carolinea insignis ; the seeds 

 of the bertholetia, which were formerly known 

 by the name of Brasil chesnuts, though we 

 had no notion of the tree which produced 

 them, till it was described by MM. de Humboldt 

 and Bonpland (i) ; the fruit of different species 

 of lecyihis, in the form of a vase with a 

 moveable cover, whence the largest are called 

 monkeys porridge-pots ; of the couratari of 

 Guyana ; of the b atonic a, in form like a square 

 cap, etc. 



The seeds of the leguminous plants, which 

 occupy the lower part of the third press and the 

 whole of the fourth, are very numerous ; among 

 them are those of the eperua falcata ; the moun- 

 tain ebony, bauhinia racemosa; the wart-podded 

 locust-tree, hymenoea verrucosa; of the moringa 

 zeylaniea, or ben-nut, which differ from the rest 

 of the family, in having three valves instead of 

 two ; some pods of the mimosa scandens, and 

 mimosa entada, which are four or five feet long 

 and three feet wide, though the flower is ex- 

 tremely small ; lastly, various brilliant coloured 



(i) M. Bonpland had not seen the flowers, which M. Poiteau has 

 observed, and brought home dried and in spirits; they resemble those 

 of the Lecythis, and prove the affinity of the two genera. 



