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1. Tep h ro sia toxicaría, Pers. Syn. 2. p . 398.— De Cand. Prodr. 2. p . 249. Benth. in
A n n . o f N a t. H i s t 2. p . 431. Hook, et A rn. supra, p . 287.— T . Schiedeana, Schlecht. in
Linncea, v. 12./? . 299. {ex. descr.)
H ab . Acapulco— This is n . 1 1 7 0 of Mr Cumiug’s Panama collections, and n. 1 7 3 of the Guiana Herbarium
of Mr Schomburgk, who observes that in the dry Savannahs of the Rio Rupunnoony it is called “ Yarro conalli,”
and is used for poisoning the fish called “ Yarro,” which will not eat the “ Hiarry” {SlmjcJinos toxicaría,
Schomb.) Benth.— I have often received specimens from St Vincent, to which island I suspect it was intro-
duced from Guiana by Mr Anderson. The leaves vary in the size of the leaflets, and in the form of their
point, sometimes acute, sometimes obtuse or retuse, and sometimes deeply emarginate. We think from
SchlechtendaTs description there can be no hesitation iu referring his T . Schiedeana to this place.
1. Centrosema Virginiana, Benth— Clitoria Virginiana, L De Cand. Prodr. 2. p .
2 34.
H a b . Realejo.
2. C. Plumieri, Re»¿/¿.— Clitoria Plumieri, Tu rp .— D C . Prodr. 2. p . 234. Ker, BoL
R eg . t. 268. Macfadyen, Fl. o f Jamaica, p . 253.
H a b . Realejo and Acapulco.—A common plant in the tropical parts of South America, and in the West
Indies, and a very handsome one in a recent state ; but its beautiful white and rose-coloured flowers turn
quite black in drying. Dr Macfadyen says they are called/ee-/ee in Jamaica, from the noise made by the
negro children in blowing through the flowers.
1. Canavalia m u ltifo ra.— Neu ro carp um multiflorum, Hook, et Arn. supra, p . 286.
H a b . San Bias to Tepic.—From our former Mexican colleclion we were only acquainted with the fruit of
this plan t; in the present we have flowering specimens. The blossoms are clothed with tawny silky hairs;
upper lip very large, broadly obovate, lower lip very small and narrow. Corolla rose-colour.
1. Da le a gracilis. Hook, et A rn . supra, p . 287.
H a b . San Bias to Tepic.
2. D . elata; herbácea, glabra, caule e recto tereti ramosissimo glabro, ramis eiongatis
strictis, foliolis 4-6-jugis ellipticis subtus glaucis nigro-punctatisque, spicis (fructiferis)
densis multifloris eiongatis cylindraceis flexuosis, bracteis lanceolatis acuminatis longitudine
calycis, calyce glabro nitido 10-striato interstitiis resinoso-glandulosis dentibus subulatis
longe plumoso-sericeis, legumine apice truncato.
H ab. Acapulco.—Our specimens of this handsome Dalea are 2 -3 feet long, and yet seem to b e but small
portions of the entire plant. The leaflets are small, obtuse, or only mucronate, destitute of dots above. The
specimens are all in fruit: and in that state the spikes are 3 -5 inches.in length, and more than 4 an inch broad;
at first sight, apparently, everywhere clothed with long, silky hairs ; but on close inspection it will be found
th at these hairs are partially situated. There are a few at the base of the calyx, but the exterior surface of
the calyx is not only glabrous, but glossy as if varnished ; the ovate tube has ten elevated ribs, and between
the ribs are linear, elevated, resinous dots ; the subulate teeth of the calyx (about equal in length with
the tube) are clothed at the margin with long, dense, silky hairs, so that, the flowers being imbricated, the
hairs seem to clothe the whole spike. The legume is shorter than the tube of the corolla, which it entirely
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fills, one-seeded, subglobose, but with the top coming to a sharp truncated edge. The bracteas are mem-
branaceous and exhibit no glands. The plant seems to be entirely herbaceous ; and, as far as can be perceived
from the withered remains of its flowers, these are white or cream-coloured.
3. D. ? Hook, et A rn . Bot. o f S. Am. in Bot. Misc. v. 3. p . 183.
H a b . Tepic.—The single specimen is in an imperfect state ; but, so far as wc can judge, it seems scarcely
to differ from our D . elegans from the El Cerro del Morro in the province of San Luis, S. America. The
flowers are, however, smaller, but of the same colour; and less injured specimens would, in all probability,
present important distinguishing characters.
1. Astragalus (§ Ciceroideæ) ervoidess puberulus, caule gracili elongato ramoso, foliolis
15-17 remotis lineari-oblongis obtusis, stipulis lanceolatis parvis, pedunculis axillaribus
folio longioribus racemosis, racemis 10-i2*floris, calyce brevi-ovato oblique obtuse 5-
den ta to dentibus brevibus subæqualibus (pedicellisque) nigris, corolla (flava) calycem
subduplo superante, leguminibus linearibus deflexis curvatis acutis glabris.
H a b . San Bias to Tepic.—Our portions of this plant measure less than a foot, slender, they are branched
and straggling, herbaceous. Leaflets about half an inch long. Flowers of the same length, soon reflexed. The
short cup-shaped calyx, with its obliquely 5-toothed mouth, has a few dark-coloured short hairs scattered over
tlie surface, yet so as scarcely to affect the greenish colour; but the short teeth and the pedicels are quite
black.
1. Stylosantlies Guianensis, Sw .— De Cand. Prodr. 2. p . 318. Benth. in Ann. o f Nat.
Hist. 2. /?. 434.
H a b . Realejo.—A tall growing plant, with rather large, lanceolate leaflets, acuminate at both extremities.
Flowers collected into large, dense capitula which arc clothed with long spreading fulvous hairs. The same
species is common in Brazil and Peru, as well as in Guiana.
1. De.smodium heterophyllum; erectum hirsutum, foliis simplicibus late ovatis obtusis
supremis trifoliolatis, foliolis ovalis iiitermedio duplo triplove majore, stipulis bracteisque
HCumina'Lis rigidis striatis.
H a b . Realejo.—There is no fruit on the solitary specimen, nor any perfect fiowers ; but the foliage is
unlike any with which we are acquainted. The leaves are in general simple, 2 or more inches long, on
slender petioles about an inch long, with a pair of small stipules near the summit ; the uppermost leaves are
much smaller and trifoliolate.
2. D . incanum, Sw. {sub Hedys.) Macfad. Jam. l . p . 265__ ,3. supinum.— D. supinum,
Sw. DC.
H a b . fi. Realejo.—This is a common plant in Jamaica, and I possess the same from Mr Cuming (his n.
1023) ; and Dr Macfadyen has clearly shown that D. supinum is only a variety of D. incanum, produced
by weakness.
3. D . plicatum, Schlecht. in Linncea, v. 5. p . 585. Hook, et A rn . supra, p . 287.
H a b . San Bias and Tepic.
4. D . podocarpum; elatum herbaceum, caule ramisque angulatis, foliolis (3) ovatis sub-
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