Sabinea
(named in honour of Joseph Sabine, F.R.S., F.L.S., &c., some time Secretary of the Horticultural Society of London). ORD. Leguminosae. A small genus (two or three species) of stove trees or shrubs, natives of the West Indies. Flowers pink, fascicled; calyx very shortly toothed; standard sub-orbicular, spreading or reflexed; wings falcate-oblong, free; keel incurved; bracts small; bracteoles absent. Pods linear, flat-compressed, two-valved. Leaves abruptly pinnate; leaflets deciduous, entire, exstipellate. These plants will thrive in a well-drained sandy loam. Propagation may be effected by young cuttings, inserted in a pot of sand, under a hand glass, in heat.
S. carinalis (conspicuous-keeled). fl. bright scarlet, three to five in fascicle, precocious; wings and standard, 1in. long; keel sixteen to eighteen lines long. l., leaflets six to eight-jugal, distant, obtuse-mucronulate, oblong, five to six lines long.
S. florida (flowery). fl. rosy; wings and standard 1/2in. long; keel 2/3in. long, semi-orbicular. l., leaflets eight to fifteen-jugal, oblong or elliptic-oblong, 1/3in. long.