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CHORIZEMA SPECTABILE. SHOWY 
CHORIZEMA. 
SKK KKK EKER EERE EEE 
Class and Order. 
DecanpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Lecuminosz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx semi-5-fidus bilabiatus, labio superiore bifido, in- 
fer. 3-partito. Corolla carina ventricosa alis breviore. Sty- 
lus brevis uncinatus. Stigma obliquum obtusum. Legwmen 
ventricosum, l-locul., polyspermum, sessile aut subsessile.— 
Suffrutices Australasici. Folia alterna simplicia sinuato- 
dentata aut integra. D C. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Cuorizema * spectabile; foliis sparsis elliptico-lanceolatis 
obovatis vel cuneatis planis integerrimis vel apice re- 
tusis mucronatis utrinque adpresse pilosiusculis, race- 
mis paucifloris terminalibus axillaribusque, calycis 
labio superiore bifido obtuso; stigmate capitato. 
Graham. : 
Cuorizema spectabile. Lindley in Bot. Reg. Miscel. May, 
1841, et Tab. 45. 3 
This plant was raised in the nursery garden of Messrs. 
James Dickson & Sons, Edinburgh, in 1840, from a ere 
ion 
* De Tuts derives this word from xapfw to separate; because the fruit is 
distinctly separated into two equal parts. IfSMITH’s derivation is correct, 
in the ninth volume of the Transactions of the Linnzan Society, (see un- 
der our Tab. 8607) the word ought to be Chorozema, with the e short : 
but LABILLARDIERE expressly writes it Chorizema; and Sir JaMEs SMITH 
himself, in a subsequent publication, gives the preference to DE THEIS’ 
- derivation, though he thinks it rather alludes to the free or separated sta- 
mens, than to the splitting of the fruit. . x 
