i 



) 









1513 



CHOROZEMA* triangulare. 



Triangular Chorozema 



DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Leguminosx Juss. $. Sophorece D. C. {Introduction to 

 the natural system of Botany, p. 87.) 



CHOROZEMA.— Supn), vol. 12. fol. 986. 



C. triangulare ; foliis subhastatis pinnatifidis spinosis acutnine integro iaciniis 



longiore, bracteolis ad apicem pedicelli. 



Frutex habitu C. nani. Differt foliis pinnatifidis, Iaciniis divaricalis 

 spinosis triangularibus : supremd longiore, nee non bracteolis pedicelli calyci 

 proximis nee intervallo guodam distantibus. Vexillum later itio-coccineum, 

 bast maculd viridi. Alee sanguineee. 



A native of the south-west coast of New Holland, where 

 its seeds were found by the collector Baxter. 



It differs from C. nanum in having its leaves much more 

 deeply pinnatifid ; the segments all very much divaricated, 

 that of the apex about twice as long as the others, and the 

 lowest proceeding from so near the base as to give the leaf 

 a hastate appearance. We also find that the bracteolae, 

 which in C. nanum are at a small distance from the calyx, 

 are in this species immediately at the base of the calyx. 



- 



" M. Labillardi&re originally discovered this genus upon the south-west 

 coast of New Holland, at the foot of the mountains, in a loamy soil, near 

 the spot where, after having been tantalised with finding many salt springs, 

 his party had just met with an ample supply of fresh water. This welcome 

 refreshment, of which he speaks feelingly in his book, seems to have sug- 

 gested a name for this plant, which he had properly determined to constitute 

 a new genus. He called it Chorozema, evidently from #«gof, a dance, or 



mentioned/'— (Smith.) 



Kv* 



