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* COLUTÉA nepalénsis. 
Nepal Bladder-senna. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. LEGUMINOS/R $ Lorea D. C. (Introduction to the Natural 
System of Botany, p. 87.) 
á COLUTEA L. Calyx 5-dentatus; Vexillum explanatum, . bicallosum, 
farinà obtus majus. Stamina diadelpha (9 et 1.) Stigma laterale sub apice 
styli uncinato.. Stylus posticê longitudinaliter barbatus. Legumen stipitatum 
.cymbiformi-ovatum inflatum scariosum. Frutices inermes. Stipule parve, 
cauline. ` Folia impari-pinnata. Racemi axillares, pauciflori, foliis paulo 
breviores.: De Cand. Prodr. 2, 270. 
$o . . we . . . . 
^ C. nepalensis ; foliolis subrotundo-ellipticis retusis, racemis paucifloris nutan- 
J tibus, callis yexilli papilliformibus, leguminibus coriaceis. pubescentibus. 
Spreng. cur: post. p. 278. 
C. nepalensis... Sims in Bot. Mag. t. 2622, 
„This hardy shrub was introduced to our gardens from 
Nipal some years since, but it has as yet been little culti- 
vated. In point of appearance it is when young far more 
“handsome than the common Bladder Sennas. Its leaflets 
Te rounder and more shining, and its flowers of a lighter 
and rather brighter tint, with a more graceful arrangement 
onthe branches; it i$ moreover a smaller and neater-look- 
Ing species. * V^ 
From the eharacter above guoted from Sprengel, the 
pods would seem’to be materially different from those of the 
common species; but-we have never seen them. No speci- 
mens were distributed under Dr. Wallich's direction ; nor 
indeed are we aware of any wild specimens having been seen 
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in herbaria. 
Flowers in June ; increased by layers. 
Pete cee TER m 
* The koXovréa of Theophrastus is supposed to have been the Colutea 
cruenta of modern Botanists. 
