OF THE HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE. 318 
Racerai axillares, solitarii, patentes, folio dimidio breviores, simpli- 
ces, multiflori. Pedunculus teres, pubescens. Flores subterni, cer. 
iiui, magni, rubicundi, pedicellati. Pedicelli flora longiores, colorati. 
Bractese ad pedicellorum singulorum basin tres, lanceolatse, acutse, in- 
curvge ; integerrimse, coloratse, intermedia multo longiore, denticulo 
utrinque notatse. 
Calyx coloratus, quinque partitus laciniis oblongis, obtusis, reclina- 
tis, corolla multo brevioribus. Petala quinque lanceolata, acuta paten- 
tia, subsessilia venosa, sequalia. Filamenta decem ; quorum tria in- 
feriora longiora, declinata, ad basin erecta, dein reclinata, subulata, 
sed infra apicem nodo magno ovato aucta ; quatuor intermedia utrin- 
que attenuata, erectiuscula, apicem versus ad angulum acutum deflexa ; 
duo proxima ad basin crassa erecta, ad apicem filiformia, spiraliter con- 
voluta; summum brevissimura, utrinque attenuatum, erectum. An- 
therse in filamentis tribus inferioribus oblongae, basi emarginatse, supra 
planse extra convexse, efFcetse ; quatuor intermedise clavatse, incumben- 
tes, ad basin poris duobus dehiscentes ; duse proximte oblongee, qua- 
drisulcse, efFoetse ; summa oblonga, quadrisulca, ad apicem poris duobus 
dehiscens. Germen longitudine staminum longiorum pedicellatum, 
lineare, incurvum, declinatupi. Stigma simplex. 
Legumen lignosum, teres, pedem unum vel alterum longum, septis 
trans versis multiloculare, vix dehiscens. Seraina parva, ovata, emargi- 
nata, arillo suberqse orbiculato piano tecta. 
Besides the C. Fistula and C. nodosa^ Dr Koxburgh 
has described three other species with a similar fruit, one 
or other of which may be either the C. F. silvestris Jbre 
Jlavescente, or some of the small leaved varieties, but I 
have not examined any of them. 
Andowasj p. 89. 
This seems undoubtedly another species of the Cassia 
Fistula^ clearly enough marked by a lactescent bark. 
BiLALANGH;, p. 89. 
This may perhaps be rather a Pterocarpus than a Cassia, 
Lignum Catudju, p. 89. 
This is another valuable wood, the produce of a tree cul- 
