albis, apice purpureo-notatis. Stam. diadelpha, reflexa; fil. alterum tubulo- 
sum compressum pro % parte longitudinis 9-fidum rubescens dorso apertum, 
alterum simplex fissure postice prioris accumbens revolutum: anth. incum- 
bentes, breves, oblonga, subfuscescentes; pollen flavum. Germ. lineari-subte- 
tragonum, angulis rotundatis, utroque lateri sulco medio exaratum, duplo 
longius calyce v. ultra: stylus subequalis germini v. longior, teres, abeuns in 
stigma angusté cuneatum transversé planum apice truncatum, summo marine 
lanuginosum, subtus concaviusculum. Legum.coriaceo-cartilagineum, fuscum, 
glabrum, semipedale, vic semunciam latum, lineari-elongatum, 2-valve, com- 
presso-tetragonum angulis in aciem brevissimam cartilagineo-coriaceam undula- 
tam attenuatis, latere utroque PE indeque vix latius quam ad ventrem et 
dorsum que ambo invicém equilata, acuminatum, stylo persistente cuspidatum, 
labrato-multiloculare disseptmentis membranaceo-cellulosis. Sem. 18, (fide 
Plumieri et Dom. Herbert) vix piso media magnitudinis majora, fusco-ful- 
vescentia. ; 
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A species first observed by Plumier in the Island of St. 
Domingo; but though figured and described by him as far 
back as the year 1693, had never been incorporated with any 
general system of vegetables, until comprised by Persoon 
in his ‘‘ Synopsis;” where it.seems to have been determined 
from a sample collected at Porto Rico by Monsieur Turpin. 
At the end of the supplement to the second volume of the 
History of the plants of Cayenne, by Aublet, that author has 
inserted a catalogue of the indigenous as well as exotic 
vegetables which he observed in the Isle of France during 
a stay he made there. This is indeed no more than a bare 
list of names, the synonyms from Rumphius’s work being 
in great part, if not throughout, erroneous, and it would have 
been utterly useless, had not the original samples been pre- 
served in the Banksian Herbarium under corresponding 
titles. Among these samples is one of the present species, 
which has however in the arrangement of that invaluable 
Herbarium been confounded with one of Doxicuos tetrago- 
nolobus, from the East Indies; a species which may be seen 
to differ from the present at a glance, by a pod with 4 broad 
membranous curiously curled wings at the 4 corners, and. 
by leaves where the leaflets are long-pointed and the lateral 
ones of the same shape as the terminal one. The list being 
composed. indiscriminately of exotic and indigenous plants 
cannot be relied on as any authority in regard to their 
origin; and all we derive from this source is, that Aublet 
observed and collected a plant of the present species in the 
Isle of France. : 
The drawing was made from a plant first introduced by. 
Mr. Herbert, and raised in his hothouse at Spofforth, from 
West Indian seed. Of two samples that gentleman kindly 
