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PODALYRIA buxifolia. 
JBoW' leaved Podalyria. 
DECANDRIA iWNOGYNlA. , 
Nat. ord. Leguminos^. ^ 
PODALYRIA, L. Cal. o-fidds, iriauiualis, basi intnisa. Cowlla 
papilionacea, vexillo majore. Stamina persistentia, basi connata. Leyumen 
ventricosum, polyspermum. Broum m Hort. Mtew. ed, St^ 3. 0-'* 
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p. buxifoHa, foliis simplicibus ovalibus supra glabiis subtus sericeis, pe- 
dunculis unifloris, calycibus basi ititriisis tomentosis coloratis. Willd. sp. 
pi. 2, 505. y - ' -\ 
Sophora buxifolia. Refz. ohs. \. p. 35. ; ^7 
Sophora pedunculata. Thindj. prodr. 79, "X ] 
Podalyria, No. 4. Lam. ill. t. 327. 
Podalyria pedunculata. Pcis. sijn. 1 . 453. 
SufFrutex, ramis terttibus sericeis. 1^'olia ovalia, jduna, viucromdata, 
supra glabra, subtus sericea ; infra-axillaria majora. ilores niagni, purpurci, 
longe pedimcnlati, peduiiculo scriceo, versus apicem articnlato. Calyx 
campamdatus, bilabiatus, scricrns, labin super lore bilobo, infer tore '■i-partito: 
laciniis ovato-lanceolatis, alls brevioribus. Vexillum explanatum, obcorda- 
ium. A lie obloriga;, dimidiata;, unguiculatai, subpatcntcs, cum carina vexillo 
midto breviorcs. Stamina ascendentia, persistentia, inclusa, 3 superiora 
libera, 7 inferiora in phalange una semiconnata; stamen supremum stigmati 
applidtum, styli longitudine, w^^ Mg ra st^lo bretnora. Ovarium viUotum, 
pobfqtermum. Stylus glater. S ^i fc i^ pKc<itm«w^ 
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This species of Podalyria is nearly related to P. mi/rt'il- 
lifolia ; from which, however, it is constantly distinguish- 
able, by the much greater length of its peduncle, and by 
the upper surface of its leaves being entirely destitute of 
pubescence. To these distinctions may be added, the greater 
size of the flowers of this species, and the viUpiis, Aot closely 
pubescent, surface of its calyx. \ 
A pretty greenhouse plant, said to have been introduced 
from the Cape of Good Hope, in 1790: but not noticed in 
the last edition of Hortus KewensisV |Our drawing was.'^ 
made at Mr. ColWllV Nursery last JulyV^ — 
An iindersJirub with round silky branches. Leaves oval, 
flat, with a little mucro, smooth above, silky beneath ; 
those below the branchlets larger than the rest. Flowers 
large, purple, on long stalks ; their stallk silky, jointed to- 
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