LEGUMINOSjE. LXXVII. Cyamopsis. LXXVIII. Psoralea. 



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Cleg. mem. VI. prod. 2. p. 215. 



Lin. syst, Monadelphia^ Decdndria. 



. 2 P. ARBOREA (Sims, bot. mag, t. 2090.) leaves impari-pin- 

 nate ; leaflets 5-pairs, linear-lanceolate; pedicels axillary, 1 



Calyx turbinately- flowered, longer than the leaves. V^ . G. Native of the Cape 



tubular, 5-cleft ; the lobes lanceojate-subulate and acute, the of Good Hope. Flowers bluish. Bracteoles 2, concrete, ap- 

 proximating the calyx, which is hairy. Stipulas callous, re- 

 curved. 



two superior ones rather remote. Petals about equal, at length 



' .-11 Vexillum roundish. W 



separating elastically. 

 composed of 2 petals, straight and acute. Stamens 10, mona- 

 delphous. Ovary linear, terete. Style ascending. Stigma ca- 

 pitate. Legume compressed, 2-valved, oblong-linear, beaked, 

 by the acuminated style, having 2 nerves near the superior su- 

 ture, and furnished with cellular substance between the seeds. 



Tree Psoralea. Fl. May. Clt. 1814. Shrub 6 to 8 feet. ' 

 3 P. pinna'ta (Lin. spec. 1074.) leaves impari-pinnate ; leaf- 

 lets 2-3-pairs, linear, and are as well as the branchlets rather 

 puberulous ; pedicels axillary, 1 -flowered, much shorter than 

 the leaves. 



^2 • G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Andr. 

 Seeds 7-8, obovate or truncate, compressed. Endopleura tumid, bot. rep. 474. Ruteria pinnata, Mccnch. 



Burm. cap. 22. Flowers blue, striped. 

 /^?nna/e-leaved Psoralea, Fl. 



appearing like albumen. Cotyledons elliptic, flat, thickish, and 

 foliaccous. Primordial leaves simple and ovate. — An erect herb, 

 with subulate stipulas, pinnately trifoliate leaves, ovate, exsti- 3 to 6 feet. 



Herm. lugd. 273» 



May 



Clt. 1690. Sh. 



pcUate, glaucous, denticulated leaflets, and axillary, short, ra- 

 cemes of small, erect, blue flowers. The hairs on the plant 



are fixed by their centre, as in Indigo/era. The genus appears 

 to he allied to Dollchos or Canavalia on the one hand and to 

 LuphiuSy Psoralea or Indigofcra on the other. 



1 C. i>soRALEoiDEs(D. C. prod. 2. p. 216.). O. S. Native 

 of the East Indies, from whence it has probably been sent into 

 Arabia and the West India Islands. Psoralea tetragonolobus, 



4 P. l^viga'ta (Lin. fil. suppl. 339.) leaves imparl-pinnatc, 

 with about 3 pairs of lanceolate leaflets, which are smooth as 

 well as the branchlets : stipulas reduced to acute tubercles* 



^l . G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope, 

 but not striped. 

 Smooth Psoralea. 



Flowers purple, 



Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 



Lin. mant. 104. 



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Dolichosfabaeformis, Lber, stirp. t. 78. 

 lichos psoraleoides, Lam. diet. 2. p. 300. Lupinus trifohatus, 

 Cav. icon, 1. t, 59. 



5 P. VEURuc(^SA (Willd. spec. 3. 

 pinnate, with \ - ' ^^ 



1343.) 



Psoralea-hke Cyamopsis. 



Cult, This nlant is nof \ 



Fl. Jul. Aug. 



Clt. 1813. PI. 1ft. 

 except in t^otanical 



p. l^6\:^,) leaves impari- 

 2 pairs of lanceolate, glabrous, glaucous 

 leaflets ; branches warted ; pedicels 1-flowered, usually 3 toge- 

 ther, axillary. Pj . G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. P. 

 angustifolia, Jacq. hort. schoenbr. 2. p. 22(5. P. triflora, Thunb.? 

 Flowers blue and white. 



Peduncles someiimes 3-flowered. 



gardens. The seeds of it should be sown in a pot filled with 

 loam and sand, and placed in a hot-bed, and when the plants 

 have grown 2 or 3 inches high, they should be planted singly 

 into separate pots, and replaced again in the hot-bed, where 

 they will ripen their seed. Some of the plants may be planted 

 out m the open border, in a sheltered situation. 



Var, ft, intermedia (D. C. prod. 2. p. 216 ) leaflets linear- 

 lanceolate. ^2 ' Gf. P. intermedia, Bess. cat. hort. crem. no. 

 111. Jacq. L c. the right hand figure. P. axilla 



Poir. diet. 



5. p. 687. ex herb. Desf. and perhaps of Linnaeus. 

 Wartcd'%i^Xi\xti^iS. Psoralea. 



4 to 8 feet. 



Fl. May, Aug. Clt. 1774. Sh. 



trifoliate 



^CBTRiBE III. CLiTORiiE (plants agreeing with Clitoria in 



some characters). D. C. 



leg. 



mem. vi. prod. 2. p. 216. 

 gunie l-cclled(f. 34. c). Stamens usually diadelphous (f. 34. rf.). 

 Sterns herbaceous or suffrutcscent, usually twining. Perhaps 

 some of the genera should have been placed in Tribe Phasehlece. 

 LXXVIII. PSORAXEA (from ^/wpaXeoc, ^5ora/^o5, scurfy ; 

 reference to the scurfy appearance of the calyx, and most 

 parts of the plants, from tubercles), 

 "h t. G14. D. C. r.r^,l. o p. 216,— Dory cnium and Ruteria, 



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; leaflets linear-spatulate, ending in a somewhat re- 

 curved mucrone ; 



axillary, 

 spike at the tops of the branches. ^ - G. Native of the Cape 

 of Good Hope. P. triflora, Thunb. p. 135. Flowers blue. 



nered Psoralea. Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 



branches and calyxes pubescent ; pedicels in 

 1 -flowered, and 



forming 



somcthini; like a 



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082.) leaves trifoliate; 



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Moench. 



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D. C. prod. 2. 



Lin. gen. no. 894. Lam. 



FiLiFORMis (Poir. diet. 5. p. 



leaflets filiform, upper ones simple, and arc as well as 



branches pubescent; pedicels axillary, 1-flowored, solitary. 



T? . G. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. P. decidua, Berg. 



pi. cap. 220. Sieb. pi. exsic. cap. 37. Branches glandular, 



SYST. 



, Diadelpliia, Decdndria. Sepals 5, joined toge- 



^or to the middle into a 5-cleft, permanent calyx, with the tube 



usually beset with glands; the lobes acuminated, h * '^ " 



o\MT one ahttle more lengthened out than the others. 



but pubescent at the apex. 

 Filifi 



ifblia 

 Shrub 2 to 4 feet. 



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10 usually diadelphous, the tenth one is sometimes 'connected ?.^^^^^^f .^'^^ ^^P^ ^^ ?^^,^ ^^P^' 



un the others at the base. Legume length of calyx, valveless, 

 u-o ? 1 ; ^^*"^times ending in a beak.— Shrubs or herbs, usually 

 parted from glandular tuberel 



Leav 



variable. Stipulas 



rl.ii ul^ ^^ ^^^^ ^f t^e petiole. Disposition of flowers va- 

 ^*aWe, blue, white, or purple. 



*« the ^'V^ ^^dlartj, especially sessile, or on simple pedicels 



^ oj the leaves, but never disposed in a spike or head. 



8 P. axilla'ris (Lin. fil. suppl. 338.) leaves trifoliate ;^ leaf- 

 lets lanceolate ; pedicels filiform, axillary, 1-flowered. * ^ 



P. linearis, Thunb. prod. 



135. This species is hardly known. The plant preserved in 

 the Banksian herbarium under this name has the leaflets obo- 

 vate, emarginatc, and the flowers almost sessile. Lher. mss. 

 ^j:27/ar?/-flowered Psoralea. Fl. June, July. Clt. 1820. 



Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 



9 P. TENUiFOLiA (Liu. spcc. 1074.) upper leaves simple, the 



leaflets linear-lanceolate, mucronate ; pedicels 



Native of the Cape of 



Ruteria tenui- 



rest trifoliate , 



axillary, 1-flowered, solitary, ^i 



Good Hope. Jacq. hort. schoenbr. 2. p. 225. 



imnari '^''''^^^^'ssima (Jacq. hort. schoenbr. 2. p. 229.) leaves f oha, Moench. Very like P. verrucosa, but the branches are 



ce4 nxiir"^^'' ' leaflets usually 7-pairs, linear-lanceolate; pedi- ' ^' ''^ '' ^^''^ ^"'^"-^ 



«>f the C^'^^' 1-flowered, shorter than the leaves. Tj . G. Native 

 of calv^T ^^^^ Hope. Flowers blue and white. Lobes 



01 calvx k. ^^"^ AAupt;. r lowers ome ana wmte. jjooes i 



JoHer on^ T^^% ^^^ ^ obtuse, upper one reflexed at the apex, but 



smooth. Flowers blue and white, mixed. 



Fine4eavedVsox^\eix. Fl. Mar. Jul. Clt. 1793. Sh. 3 to 4 ft. 

 10 P. fascicula^ris (D. C. prod. 2. p. 217.) leaves trifoliate, 



leaflets linear, very much 



Snepi ^^o"^- Bracteoles 2, rather distant from the calyx. 



vot?n '''''^^^^' Fl.May,JuL Clt. 1725. Sh. 4 to 6 ft. 



some of them are simple; « . /» • 



acuminated; pedicels axillary, 1-flowered, 6 or 8 m a fasa- 

 cle, a little longer than the flowers. Tj 



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G. Native of the 



