:2-3-pla brevior, abrupt? surrectus, glaber : stig. punctum ol 
104 
LÉBECKIA contaminata, . 
Sipotted-stalked: Lebeckia. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIEA. 
Nat, Ord. Lecuminosm. Jusseugen.945. — 0. o 
Div. V. Cor. irregularis papilionacea, Stam. 10, diadelpha.' Lb- 
gum. i-loc., 9-valv. Ids 1. c. 359. 
~” LEBECKIA. Cal. 5-partitus: laciniis acutis; simubus rotundatis, 
Legumen cylindricum, polyspermum. Thunb. pref. part. post. Fru- 
tices. Folia simplicia, ternata, v. rarô abrupt? pinnata? 
L. contaminata, glabra, ex petiolis filiformibus aphyllis remotis erectis 
, Virgata; pedunculis racemosis; carina lateribus bicalcarata, 
Lebeckia. contaminata. Thunb. prod. 122, Willd, sp. pl. 3. 946, 
Hort. Kew. ed. 9. 4. 961. MM 
Spartium contaminatum. Linn. mant. 268. Hort. Kew. 3. 10. 
rami puden rylosi, ex petiolis a; juncets remotis sparsis virgati. Pro foliis 
petioli subnudi, erech, yn cw ati, aculi, ¢ Wnh) interiori facie 
exarati levi sulco ibidemque obsiti stipulis senis parvulis mucroniformibus per 
myn de HE T 
iN s omnind observavimus, i 
digi, older sold, Todi 
r compress 
eb robtstiores petiolis, purpur ulati, rachide,florunt an premarginatd 
‘putantes, oon anif Cal. unilabiato-inflexus, ob mia i dulinequalia 
basis icillaie. Germ. filiforme, rectum, glabrum, polyspermum : stylus 
us, 
We find no figure of this remarkable plant; which has 
been known in our collections from 1788, when it was in- 
troduced by Mr. Masson from the Cape of Good Hope. 
It partakes, with some few more of its tribe, in the curious 
habit of producing a foliage of bare leaf-stalks (petioles). 
'Those of this nature have been only known to furnish a 
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