NOTES ON PLANTS. 
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PLANTS. 
In addition to the explanation of the engravings^ I 
will say a few words respecting several fragments of plants 
collected in the environs of Kakondy (Rio-Nunez), which 
botanists have considered either too ill-preserved or too in- 
complete for engraving. M. Caillie made sketches of some 
which appeared equally unfit to be committed to the graver. 
\. Native name. Saule-Keme. The blossom has ten 
stamina, two of them large and of a deep yellow, 
and three smaller supported by a very fine and 
twisted fibre ; the flower deserves attention for its 
beauty ; it appears fit to adorn a garden ; it emits a 
sweet and agreeable odour ; its colour is a light 
yellow ; the pistil is green. The shrub which produces 
it, grows on a bush to the height of eight or ten feet. 
It has not been seen in fruit. 
The sketch traced by M. Caillie, and the little 
sample which he gathered, shew the nature of the 
foliage 5 it is of the leguminous kind : the leaves 
are oval, rounded ; the flower in bunches, the pedicle 
furnished with stipulse, the anthers bifid, the style long 
and filiform. 
According to the learned M. Kunth, who has obli- 
ginglyexamined this and the two following specimens, this 
