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* ADÉSMIA Loudónia. 
Mr. Loudon's Adesmia. 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSE. Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System 
of Botany, p. 87.) 
ADESMIA. D. C. Calyz 5-fidus, laciniis acutis subegualibus. Corolla 
papilionacea, vexillo juniore super alia petala complicato, carinâ apice curvo-trun- 
cata. Stamina distincta, approximata. Legumen compressum transversê pluri- 
articulatum, suturâ superiore subrectâ crassiusculâ, infer. sinuato-lobatâ, articulis 
l-spermis demum secedentibus suborbiculatis. Semina compressa, reniformi- 
orbiculata. Herbs australi-Americane. Stipule lanceolate. Folia abruptê 
pinnata ; petiolo ia setulam producto. Pediculi azillares, 1-flori, et foliorum 
Superiorum abortu in racemum terminalem dispositi. De Cand. Prodr. 2, 318. 
A. Loudonia ; fruticosa cinereo-sericea erecta ramosissima valde foliosa, foliis 
trijugis foliolis lineari-lanceolatis mollibus patentibus petiolo longioribus, pe- 
dunculis axillaribus solitariis calycem 5-fidum sericeum eguantibus, vexillo 
sericeo, leguminibus (vix maturis) triarticulatis appresso-sericeis calyce duplo 
longioribus, Hooker and Arnott, Bot. Misc. vol. 3. p. 193. quibusdam 
mutatis. 
. Frutex Geniste cujusdam sericee facie. Caulis et folia cinerea, sericea, 
Stipule amgustissime, libere. Foliola lineari-lanceolata, mollia, subtus palli- 
diora. Flores solitarii, axillares, foliis breviores. Calyx sericeus 5-fidus, 
laciniis anterioribus longioribns. Vexillum sericeum, complicatum in alas 
meumbens. Als glabre vexillo breviores. Carina paulo incurva alis palli- 
‚or et brevior, suturd anteriore villosd. Stamina 10, subequilonga, Sere 
Ypogyna, filamenta libera ferê usgue ad basin, membranaceo-marginata, apice 
Subulata ; Anthere parve, oblonge, equales. Ovarium lineare utrinque 
angustatum, villosum, stylo ascendente curvato subulato glabro. 
FAI ab 
A Chilian shrub, our drawing of which was made from a 
Specimen in the possession. of Mr. Tate. It was originally 
Supposed to be a new genus, and was called Loudonia, to 
Which some not over-honest dealer added the specific name 
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* So named from a priv. and degpoe a unions in allusion to the separation 
of the stamens by which Adesmia is known from Onobrychis and ZEschynomene. 
