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SPARTIUM ferox. 

 Harhary Broom. 



DIADELPHIA DECJNDRTA. 



Nat.ord. Legumikos^e, Jussieu gen. 34-5. Div. V. Cor. irregularis 



papilionacea. Stam. 10 diadelpha. Leg. 1-Ioc, 2-valv. Frutices ant herha; 



jfid. simpUcia aut ternata aut rarius digitata ; stipulw nunc subnullce, nunc 



conspicuce into petiolo adnata aut ah eodem c#$*£ttcto.=PAP*LK>NACEi£. 



Brown gen. rem. in Flind. voy* 2. 552* 



SPARTIUM. CaL deorsum productus. Carina quibusdam pendula. 

 Filam. germini adhferentia. Stig. longitudinale, supra villosum. Legum. 

 oblongum, mono*aut polyspermutn. Persoon $yn. 2. 286. 



Div. Foliis ternalis. 

 S.Jerox, foliis ternatis simph'cibusqueoblongis mucronatis, racemo terminal!, 



ramis striatis teretibus spinescentibus. Willd. sp.pl. 3. 934. 

 Spartium ferox. Desfont. all. 2. 136. t. 182. Poiret voy. en barb. % 206. 



Hort. Km. ed. 2. 4. 257. 

 Spartium heterophyllum. V Hent* tfirj). 183. 

 Cytisus foliis oblongis sessilibus glabris, siliquts compressis incanis. Shaw 



specim. n. 194. 



Caulis JiuticosuSf 9-15 decimet. alius, ramosus, erectus. Rami numerost, 

 slriati. Spinas validte, longce, striata, Jloriferce. Fol. glabra aut brevis- 

 sime villosa, mucronata, superiora simplicia, lanceolata et obovata> brevissime 

 petiolala 6-9 milletn. longa, 2-4 lata; infenora ternata obovata. Flores nu~ 

 merest, solitarii, axillares, breviter pedicellate in racemos 2-5 centim. longos 

 dispositL Itach is pubescens. CsA.tripartitus; lacinik acutis, inferhre paw 

 lutiim long!ore> trijida. Car.iutea> magnitudine Genista spinosse Lin., glabra. 

 Germ, argerdeum. Legumen subarcuatum, compressum, acuminatum, 2 

 centim. longum, 4 millem. latum, torulosum, sericeum, incanum villis adpressis 

 densifi breviswnis, 8-ad 10- spermutn. Desf. I. c. 



Native of Barbary. Introduced about the year 1800. 

 With us a hardy greenhouse shrub, flowering in the spring. 

 The drawing was taken at the nursery of Messrs. Whitley, 

 Brames, and Milne, at Fulham. It differs from Spartium 

 spinosum by having the upper leaves simple, and not ter- 



nate as there. 



An upright branching shrub: branches numerous, fluted. 

 Spines strong, long, fluted, flowerbearing. Leaves smooth 

 or furred with a very short nap, mucronate; upper ones 

 simple, lanceolate and obovate, most shortly petioled; lower 

 ones ternate, obovate. Flowers many, solitary, axillary, 

 shortly stalked, disposed in racemes. Rachis or general 



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