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Lathyrus nervosus. Nerve-leaved 

 Lathyrus; or Everlasting Pea. 



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Class and Order. 



DlADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



( Nat. Ord. — Leguminos^e. ) 



Generic Character. 



Calyx campanulatus 5-fidus, lobis 2 superioribus brevio- 

 ribus. Corolla papilionacea. Stamina diadelpha. Stylus 

 complanatus, apice dilatatus, antice villosus aut pubescens. 

 Legumen oblongum, polyspermum, bivalve, 1-locuJare. 

 Semina globosa aut angulata. — Herbae scepius scandentes. 

 Stipulas semisagittata? . Petioli apice in cirrhum ramosum 

 abeuntes. Poliola 1 — 3 juga. Pedunculi axillares. DC. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Lathyrus nervosus ; glaberrimus, caulibus scandentibus 

 acute angulatis striatis, foliis unijugis elliptico-ovatis 

 acutis mucronatis nervosis internodio Iongioribus cir- 

 rhis elongatis bis trifidis petiolis brevissimis, stipulis 

 semisagittato-triangularibus nervosis, pedunculis mul- 

 tifloris. 



Lathyrus nervosus. Lam. Diet. 2. p. 708. De Cand. Prodr. 

 2. p. 370. Spreng. Syst. Veget. 3. p. 263. Vogel, in 

 Linncea, 13. p. 32. 



Lathyrus trigonus. Vogel, in Linn&a, 13, p. 31 (fide 

 Herb. nostr.J. 



A handsome and very desirable greenhouse plant, dis- 

 covered by Cameron, in rocky places, at Monte Video. 

 Sellow gathered it in the same locality, and it appears, in a 

 memoir of some Leguminosss of South Brazil, in the thir- 

 teenth volume of the Linncea, by the late lamented Dr. 



Vogel, 



