I possess specimens of the same plant, gathered in Nepaul, 
sent to me by Dr WaLticu, but without a name. Being ig- 
norant of the structure of the perfect seedvessel, I am uncertain 
in what genus it should be placed. The Baptisie are all na- 
tives of North America, and the fruit of this individual will 
probably be found to differ essentially from that which belongs 
to that genus. As far as regards the other characters, which 
are taken from the flower, it seems sufficiently to agree with 
Baptisia *. | 
_ Fig. 1. Calyx fallen from the receptacle. Fig. 2. Flower, deprived of its 
petals and calyx. Fig. 3. Pistil. Fig. 4. Flower from which the calyx 
and vexillum are removed. Fig. 5. The same, from which the ale are 
also removed. Fig. 6. Vexillum.—All more or less magnified. 
* Since the above was printed, and since the working off of a large proportion of the 
plates, a seed-vessel has become fully formed upon Mr Nerx1’s plant: this is broadly 
linear, compressed, with a rather long curved acumen, and containing about eight seeds. 
In the structure of the seed-vessel, it therefore departs from the genus Baptisia, and 
may perhaps be united with Thermopsis of Mr Brown in Hort. Kew. v.ii. p.3. “ Cal. 
oblongus, semi-5-fidus, bilabiatus, postice convexus, basi attenuata. Cor. papilionacea, 
petalis longitudine subsequalibus: vexillum lateribus reflexis; carina obtusa. Stamina 
-“persistentia. Legumen compressum, lineare, polyspermum.”-——Br. To this genus belong 
Th. lanceolata, Br. (Podalyria lupinoides, Willd.) native of Siberia, and the Thermia 
rhombifolia of NutTtai, native of America; though in my specimens from Dr Ri- 
CHARDSON, the margins of the vexillum are not reflected. 
I may here add, that the leaves in Mr Nrruu’s plant (probably in consequence of 
cultivation) are twice or thrice the size of those upon the native specimens; and that 
Mr Don, who, however, had not had an opportunity of examining the seed-vessel, was 
also of opinion that the plant might be referred to Baptisia. 
