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LEGUMINOSiE. CCCXV. Donia. CCCXVI. Megastegia. CCCXVII. Sepipira. 



wings lanceolate, acuminate, spreading, half the length of the 

 keel, which is cymhiform, and composed of one petal. Stamens 

 10, diadelphous, one of which is separate from the rest ; anthers 

 incumbent. Style long, filiform ; stigma truncate. Legume ob- 

 long, swollen, coriaceous, 1 -celled. Seeds many, reniform, dis- 

 posed in 2 rows, attached by a funicle to the lower suture 

 Procumbent, herbaceous, perennial herbs or subshrubs, with 

 impari-pinnate leaves, and foliaceous, adnate permanent stipulas. 



beneath and hoary ; panicle of flowers spreading. I2 • S. 

 tive of Brazil. 



Na. 



Larger Sebipira. Shrub or tree. 



Cult. See Copaifera for culture and propagation, p. 456. 



•f Additional Leguminous plants^ 

 Tribe I. Sophorece, p. 108. 



Flowers large, crimson, about 2 inches long, disposed in umbels 1 Baptisia minor (Lehm. innov. act. bonn. 14. p. 803. and p, 



113. no. 8. of the present volume,) stem erect, solid; leaflets 



or racemes. 



1 D. puNi'cEA ; suffruticose, minutely pubescent ; leaflets rhomboid-lanceolate ; stipulas lanceolate, longer than the pe- 



alternate, oblong, retuse, coriaceous ; flowers racemose ; calyx 

 5~toothed; legumes smooth. T2 . G. Native of New Zealand, 

 where it was first discovered by Sir Joseph Bankes and Dr. So- 

 lander, who gave it the name of Clidnthus puniceus. Flowers 

 large, crimson. 



Scarlet-Rowered Donia. Shrub 1 to 2 feet. 



tioles ; racemes axillary, bracteate ; bracteas cordate, lanceolate, 

 lower ones permanent; vexillum entire. %. H» Native of 

 North America. Baptisia australis, Hortul. Plant glaucous 

 and pruinose. Flowers blue. This plant differs from the 

 true B. australis in the stem being solid and always smaller, in 

 the lower bracteas being permanent, and lastly in the vexillum 



2 D, sPECi6sA ; herbaceous, very villous; leaflets opposite, being entire, which in 5. ausirfl^^ is appendiculate at the base. 



lanceolate, acute ; flowers umbellate ; calyx 5-cleft ; legume 

 silky. %. G. Native of New Holland, at Regent's Lake. 

 Flowers large, crimson. 



Showy Donia. 

 3 D. form6sa 



PI. procumbent. 

 plant herbaceous, very villous ; leaflets oppo- 



Smaller Baptisia. Fl. June, July. PI. 1 to 2 feet. 



2 GoMPHOLOBiuM Knightea^num (Liudl. hot. reg. 1468.) 

 leaves ternate and pinnate ; leaflets roundish-obovate, ovate, and 

 linear, mucronate, and glabrous ; cymes terminal, pedunculate, 

 length of the leaves. ^2 • Gr* Native of New Holland. Flow 

 rose-coloured. Leaflets variable in shape. 



site, obovate ; flowers racemose; calyx 5-cleft; legume silky. 



1/. G. Native of the North-west coast of New Holland, at KnighVsGom^\\6ioh\wm. FL July, Aug. Clt. 1831. Sh. 1 ft. 



the Curlew river. Capt. King. 



Beautiful Donia. 

 Cult. 



PI. procumbent. 



Elegant plants, resembling the Sutherlandia frutescens^ 

 when in bloom, their flowers beinir large, and of a crimson 



Trihe H. Lbtec^. Suhtrihe I. Genistece, p. 126. 



3 Crota'laria bupleurifolia (Schlecht. et Cham, in Linnaea. 

 colour. Should ever any of the species be introduced to our 5. p. 575.) pubescent; stem angularly winged, dichotomously 



branched ; leaves on short petioles, ovate-elliptic, obtuse at boUi 

 ends, and mucronate ; flowers usually twin, pedunculate, near 

 the base of the branches ; bracteas rather joined, opposite, sti- 

 pula-formed, decurrent, hastately acuminated at the apex. 0.55. 

 Native of Mexico, near Hacienda de la Laguna. Flowers blue, 

 rather smaller than those of C verrucosa. Lin. p. 134*. no. l^.oi 

 the present volume, and to which it is nearly allied. 

 Bupleurum-leaved Crotalaria. PI. 1 to 2 feet. 



4 Crota'laria bractea'ta (Schlecht. et Cham, in Linnaea, 5. 



gardens, we would recommend their being grown in an equal 

 mixture of loam, peat, and sand, and cuttings will no doubt 

 strike root in the same kind of soil, under a bell-glass. 



CCCXVL MEGASTFGIA (from ^fyac, megas, large, and 



irrcyoc, stegos, a covering ; in reference to the large bracteas, 

 which enclose tlie flower before expansion). 



Lin. syst. MonadeljMay Dccdndria. Bracteas 2, large, 



inclosing the flower be^ Calyx bilabiate, upper lip 575) .^^ exstlpulate ; leaves sessile, oblong, obtuse, mu- 



?.'^.^\1''.'''.^.V''"'' ?A^„^:„_S'!y''"''_r''?'!'^^^^^^^^ - cronate, attenuated at the base, clothed with yellowish tomentum 



beneath, as well as on the branches and calyxes ; branches terete; 

 racemes elongated, opposite the leaves, or somewhat terminal on 

 long peduncles ; peduncles bracteate ; corolla equal in length to 

 the calyx ; calycine segments linear, elongated, acuminated, an 

 very acute; legumes glabrous, rather clavate, many-seeded, kv* 

 Native of Mexico, at Hacienda de la Laguna. Flowers 

 propped by bracteas on short pedicels. Corolla flesh-coloured. 

 This species comes nearly to C. Paulmia, p. 136. no, S5. of t e 



than the calyx. Stamens 10, monadclphous? Legume unknown. 

 A herbaceous plant, densely clothed in every part with fus- 

 cous hairs. Leaves with 10-12 pairs of ovate acuminated leaf- 

 lets. Pedicels elongated, 1 -flowered, solitary or twin, axillary. 



Fl ' ^ . . . 



Pavon, Astra- 



large, red or purple. 

 1 M. sPEciosA. 1^. G. Native of Mexico. 



galus araraodytes, Ruiz et Pav. in herb. Lamb. Perhaps the 

 same genus as Harpdlyce. 



Shewy Megastegia. PL 1 to 2 feet. 



Cult. For culture and propagation see Hoffmanseggia^ p. 433. 



S. 



present volume. 



^racfeafe-flowered Crotalaria. 



PI. 1| foot. 



branches 



CCCXVIL SEBIPIRA (meaning unknown.) Mart. reis. 

 bras, ex Schlecht. Linnaea. 5. p. 44. 



LiN. SYST. Decdndriay Monogynia* Calyx tubular, cylin- 

 drical, somewhat equally 5-toothed. Corolla of 5 petals, dis- 

 posed in a somewhat papilionaceous manner ; petals erect, un- 

 guiculate, flat, crenulated, having the vexillum almost quadrate, 

 shorter than the wings and petals of the keel. Stamens 10, 

 free ; anthers globose. Stigma capitate. Legume compressed, 

 linear, membranous, 1 -celled, many-seeded, winged on one side. 

 Seeds obovate. Embryo straight. This jrenus belongs to Tribe 



5 Geni'sta Tenorii ; stems difflisely prostrate ; o^antnc. 

 angular, striated, and villous ; leaves oval-oblong, acute, p* <^ 

 on both surfaces ; flowers axillary, solitary, on short pedunc es , 

 calyx somewhat cylindrical, pilose ; the teeth setaceous ; coro 

 glabrous ; vexillum of a copper-yellow colour, about equa 

 length to the keel. Tj. H. Native of Lucania, on ^^e nioun- 

 tains. G. depressa, Tenore, fl. neap. prod, append. 5. ^"* "<, 

 of Bieb. This species differs from G. prostrdta, Lam. p. y>^^ 

 no. 72. of the present volume, in the leaves being pilose on 

 surfaces, in the calyx being hairy, and lastly in the calycme e 



present volume » 



Copa'ifi 



being setaceous. 

 Tenore^s Genista. 



Shrub prostrate. 



1 S. ma'jor (Mart. 1 c) leaves pinnate, with many pairs of <1 „„, „ ^ ^,„^^« , 



alternate, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse leaflets, which are glaucous ed, simple ; stipulas quite entire, shorter than the petiole ; P^ 



6 Ononis pedunculVris (Lindl. bot. reg. U16.) herbaceous, 

 ifFuse, beset with glandular pubescence ; leaves obovate, t 



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