39 o PLANTAE AMERICAN AE. 



cow and of the fame fhape. The tefticles 

 were fituated under the belly before the 

 fems 9 which was turned backwards, 

 IV. 171. PISCIPULA (PISCIDIA) Erythri- 

 na. Sp. PI. 707. n. 3. 2. 993. 1. Barbafco 

 vulgo. 



The figure of the flower fhews that it is not 

 a fpecies of the Erythrina, but rather a 

 diftincl genus. 

 En defcriptionem I 



Arbor magna f. mediocris. 



Caulis arborefcens, 9, 10, 15 orgyarum ahitu- 

 dine, trunco inaequali, fuperne in ramos 

 adfcendentes, rariufculos divifo: ramis ere- 

 clis, alternis, teretibus, glabris. 



Folia alterna, ad fummitates ramorum pinnata. 



Flores in racemis alternis, erectis, copiofis, 

 digitalibus et ultra, fparfis. Racemi com- 

 po'fiti racemulis fparfis, alternis, lateralibus, 

 patentibus. Singulis 1, 2 flores fuboppofitos 

 iparfoque pedunculatos proferentibus. Pe- 

 dunculis 4, 5 linearum longitudine, fimpli- 

 cibus, patenti-ereclis, fingulis unifloris. 



Cal. Perianthium monophyllum, tubulatum, 

 leviter compreifum, bafi glabriufculum, 

 duarum vel trium linearum longitudine et 

 fere fimile diametro furfum ad inferiora, 

 quinquedentatum : dentitus fuperioribus 

 binis, magis approximatis, obtufidribug 

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