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til TOR I A; Lin. Gen. Plant. 796. ' tcrhatea. 

 / Tourn. Aft. Keg. 1706. Clitorius. Dill. Hort. Elth. 

 * j6. We have no Englifh tide for this plant. 



The Characters ^re;"'f**"*'v';' -^•' 



The fiowcr bath a pey-manent tmpalemeni hf ine It'af^ 



kvbich is tukilary creST.,' and indented in five parts at the 



fop. nefioijoer is of the butterfly kind^ having a large 



Jpreading Jiandard^ tvhicb is ereB^ and indented at the 



■ tops the tzvo ivings are oblokgy 'obtufe^ end ftoorttr than 



. . the ftandard^ "ojhich is clofedM*The keel is Jhcrter thaH 



.' . the %mngs \ it is roundiflo and hoiked ; it hath tekjiamsna, 



nine of which are joined^ and onejtahds fepdrate^ which-, 



" fin's terminated by Jingle funtmits.-- In the center isjituated 



-■ nn oblong gerinen^ fupporting a rijlngjlyky crowned by an 



cbtufe Jti^ma,' 'The germed afterward becomes a tong^ nar- ' 



fowycompfejjedpod^ with one ccll^ opening with two valves^ 



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lire ehconfipafied about the middle with two fmall 



oval leaves •, the flowers are very large, the ftandard 

 being much broader than that of the firft fort, and 

 the two wings art larger ; the flowers are of a fine 

 blue colour, fo make a fine appearance. The flow-- 

 ers appear in July, and in warm feafons the feed:; 

 will ripen in autumri, foon after which the pknt:^ 



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''"■There is one witH a double flower of this fort, whicli 



i t't^ifed in the Chelfea garden fome years pafl:, from 

 feeds fent me from India •, but the plants did not pro- 

 duce feeds here, and being annual, the fort was loll. 

 ;The flowers of this were very beautiful. 

 The feeds of the third fort were fent me from the 

 Bahdmd Iflands \ this fends out from the root two of 



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.' inclojing feveral kidney-fljaped feeds, ' 

 - iThis genus of plants is ranged in the third feftioh of 

 : Linnasus*s feventeenth clafs, intitled Dladelphia De- 

 ' candriav the flowers of this feftion have ten flramina, , 



which compofc two bodies. -. 

 " The Species are," --i^ 

 .1. CLiTO'RiA^(Tfr«^/f^)foliispinnatis"/HGrt. Cliffy 360. 



I Clitorea with winged leaves, Ternatea flore fimplici cas- 

 : ruleo. Tourn.Acad. Reg. Sc^'I7o5■'-^i£ 



a. CLitdfeEA "(^r^//^^/^) foliis tefriatisV' calycibus cam- 

 panulatis folkariis. Hprc. Upfal. 215. ■Clitoria with 

 ^ trifoliate leaves , and a fingte flower with a bell-Jbdped 

 ■ empalment.' Planta leguminofa Brafiliana, ^Phlfe- 

 : oil flofe, flore purpureo Hiaximo. Breyn. (^ent. 7 



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tab. 32 



3. Clitoria {Virginiana) foliis ternatis, talycibus c^m- 

 .. panulatis fubgfeminis. Flof. Virg. 83. "Three-kaved 



Clitoria with two flowers joined^ whofe empalements are 

 :'hell'fhaped. ' tlitorius trifolius fiore minore cseruleo. 





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4* CuTORlA {Mariana) foliis ternatis, calycibus cylin- 



\ dricis. Lin. Sp. Plant, "jc^o^. Clitoria with trifoliate 

 ': kaveSy and cylindrical empalements to the flow&s, Clito- 

 ^ tius Marianus trifolius fubtus glaucis. Pet. Hort. 



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The firft fort grows naturally in India ; the feeds of 



this were firft brought \6 Eui*5pe frOm Teffi^te, 6he 

 of the Molucca Iflands, and this induced Dr. Tour- 

 ncfort to give the title of Ternatea to this genus. 

 There is a variety of this with white.ftowers, and ano- 

 ther ^Vith large blue flowers, which ftiake a fine ap- 

 pearance, l^he feeds which I received of the latter, 

 produced all the plants with very double flowers, 

 without the leaft variation j but in cold feafons 'the 

 J)lants do not produce any pods here._ - ' 

 This rifes with a twining herbace^biis ftalk to the 

 height of four or five feet, in the fame manner as the 

 Kidney-bean, and requires the like fupport ; for in 

 the places where it grows naturally, it twifts itfelf 

 about the neighbouring plants ; the ftalks are gar- 

 niflied with winged leaves, compofed of two or three 

 pair of lobes, terminated by an odd one •, thefe are 

 of a beautiful green, and are placed alternate on the 

 ftalks ; from the appendages of the leaves, come out 

 the foot-ftalks of the flower ; each of thefe is encom- 

 pafled by two very fine leaves about the middle, 

 where they are bent, fuftaining a very large, gaping, 

 beautiful flower, whofe bottom part feems as if grow- 

 ing to the top. - ' •'• 1 •- • • 



The flowers have a green membranaceous empale- 



ment, which is cut into five parts. The Ilandard of 



' the flowers is large, and is fpread open very wide ; 



and the flowers are of fo deep a blue colour, as to 



ftain paper, after having "been many years dried, al- 



moft as blue as indigo \ thefe flowers are fucceeded 



by long flender pods, containing feveral kidney-fhaped 

 feeds. ' ■ 



The fecond fort grows naturally in the Brafils, from 

 whence thefe feeds were brought to Europe.. This 

 hath a twining ftalk like the former, which rifes five 

 or fix feet high, garniflied at each joint with one tri- 

 foliate leaf, ftanding upon a long foot-ftalk. The 

 flowers come out fingly from the foot-ftalk of the 

 leaves, ftanding upon pretty long foot-fluilks, which 



three flender twining ftalks^ which rife to the height 



- of fix or fevfcn feet, garnifhed at each joint with one 

 -■ 'trifoliate leaf, whofe jobes arc oblong and pointed. 



! At the oppofite fide of the ftalk, the foot-ftalk of the 

 V flower arifes, which is little more than an inch long, 



naked, and fuftains a fingle flo\Ver, which is of a 

 t purple colour within, but of a greeniih white on the 



outfide, not half fo large as either of the former : 

 ^'' thefe flowers are each lucceeded by long, flender, 



- - comprefl!ed pods, ending in a point, which contain 



- one row of roundifli kidney-fhaped feeds. This fort 

 '--flowers in July and Auguft, and the feeds ripen in 



fi'- autumn. ■,•; ■^>: ' ^■■-. -^...^ A'-'\'i^:.\ x.^:-: > 



t>'''-The feeds of the fourth fort were fent mfe from Ca- 

 .■ tdlina, where the plants grow naturally. This rifes 



■ with a twining weak ftalk about five feet high, gar- 

 ' hilhed with trifoliate leaves like the former, whofe 

 t- lobes are narrower, and of a grayifli colour oh their 

 '--tinder fide r the flowers come out by pairs on the 

 '^ 'foot-ftalks ; tlttk enipalemetits are cylindrical..: The 



'lowers are fmall^ and of i pale blue colour within, 

 but of a dirty white on the outfide.- This flowers in 



'• Auguft, but rai'ely ripens any feeds In England. 



All thefe forts arc annual with Us in England, fo that 

 '-':unlefs the -feeds ripen, the fpecies arc loft ; and as the 



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^'two forts with double flowers have not formed any 

 ^ pods in this country, fo far as I have been able to 

 ^'team, therefore the feeds of thefe muft be procured 

 ^^ from the countries where they naturally grow. In- 

 ; deed thefe are fuppofed to be only varieties, which 



■: accidentally arifefrom the fingle. If this be true, I 

 '>' cannot account for the fuccefs of thofe plants which 

 grew at Chelfea, for they were all of the fame double 



- ' kind, without the leaft variation ; and this was not 

 from a fingle experiment, but in three different years 

 when I received the feeds, the plants did all of them 

 produce double flowers. 



The feeds of thefe plants muft be fown upon a good 

 hot-bed early in th^ fpring; and when the plants are 

 two inches high, they fliould be carefully taken up, 



■ and each planted in a fmall pot filled with light frefh 



earth, and plunged into a hot-bed of tanners bark, 



obferving to fliade them till they have taken frefh 



root, and refrefli them with water as they may re- 



' quire it. After they are well rooted in the pots, they 



■ muft have air every day in proportion to the warmth 



- * of the feafon, to prevent their drawing up weak •, 

 their waterings fliould be repeated two or three 



' ' times a week, but they (hould not have too much at 

 each time. ■ A3 thefe plants have climbing ftalks, 



"' they will foon grow too tall to remain under com- 

 mon frames, therefore they muft then be removed 

 into the ftove, and plunged into the bark-bed ; bu: 

 if their roots have filled the pots, they ftiould be re- 

 moved into larger, and afterward they muft be treat-- 

 cd in the fame manner as other plants from the fame 

 countries. 



CLUSIA. Lin. Gen. Plant. 577. Plum. Nov. Gen. 

 20. tab. 20. The Balfam-tree. 



The Characters are, 

 It hath an imbricated empalements compofed of rcurJijf? 

 concave leaves %vhich fpread open\ it hath five or fir, large ^ 

 roundifhj concave^ fpreading petals. In the bottom ts 

 Jituated a globular neSfarium^ including thegermen^ which 

 is pervious at the top,, from which place thefttgma arifes. 



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