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BOSSIJEA cinerea. 



Sharp-leaved Bossicea. 



DIADELPHIA nECANDRIA. 



- Nat, ord, Leguminosje. Jussieu gen. 345. Div, V, 



BOSSIMA. CaL bilabiatus: labio superiore majore semib]6do obtUM. 

 Stam, omnia connexa. Legumen plano-compressunir pedicellatum, poly^ 

 spermum, margine utroque iQcrafisatum* Sem^ 8trophioIata« Brown in 

 Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 4, 266. 



B. cinerea^ ramis foHosis teretibus, caule erecto ramosiesimo, foIiU ovato* 

 lanceolatis; supr^ scabris; subtils pubescentibus ; margimbus recurvis. 

 ■ Srown in loc* ciL 268. 

 Bosfiiaea calcarata. Herb. Banis, 



Fruticulus erecttis^ striclus, panicidalo-ramoiust ramis mbaUemis^ sim^: 

 pUcibus^ lanatO'villosis, FoL mimerom, prtmma, alterna v. nunc in summit 

 ramis opposita^ patentisstma, brevisstmi petiolatay semuncialia v* ultrd^ longi 

 acuminata mucrone spini/ormi^ margine deflexo deniiculalO'Sca&rata, suprh 

 corrugatO'venosay puoescentiS parca et caauc^f subius yiUoio-cinerascentia 

 nervis varicosis: petiolus glanduloso-crassuSf rugosus^ stipulatus: 3tipute % 

 opposit£E, membranosay purpuro-rubenteSy linear i-elor^atay acuta, angustis* 

 simcBf recurvo'divarzcdntes, Flojres nufnerosit solitarih axiilaresy subaguales 

 Joliisy in ramis formantes racemos foliosos spicattm elongatos ; peduncuJj^i> 

 Jbrmesy atro-rubentes^ villosiusctdi, breviores Jlore^ bracteolis 2 minutis pallia 

 dis oppositis prope calycem cum quo sunt continui. Cal. turbinato-campanU' 

 latusy 5-Jidus, limbo incsqualissimi bilabiate; labio summo conduplicato, 

 vafde majore, subtruncato-rotundo, emarginato; irao S-partilo, lobulis subulo" 

 tis wqualilms co!lateraUbus recurvis. Con {■ partem uncif paulb exsuperant^ 

 purpuro-flavescensy duplo longior calyce; pro describendd verb non habuimus 

 pneter emarcidam. 



A very rare species in our collections, and till now un- 

 figured; fii-st observed by Mr. Brown in Van Diemen's 

 Island, and introduced in 1803. The drawing was made 

 from a specimen which flowered in Mr. Herbert's garden at 

 Spofforth, near Wetherby, a source fi-om which we have been 

 liberally and munificently supplied for the use of the present 

 publication. It is cultivated in tbe greenhouse, and flowers 

 from May to July. 



A small bushy shrub; stem upright, stnught, nume- 

 rously branched; branches subaltemate, round, leafy, 

 simple, with a short woolly fur. Leaves numerous, near to 

 each other, alternate or sometimes opposite at the upper 

 part of the branches, widespread, ovately lanceolate, about 



