( 3996 ) 



Lath yr us pubescens. Downy South Ame- 

 rican Lathyrus; or Everlasting Pea. 



Class and Order. 



DlADELPHIA DeCANDRIA. 



( Nat. Ord. — LeguminosjE. ) 



Generic Character. 



Calyx campanulatus 5-fidus, lobis 2 superioribus brevi- 

 oribus. Corolla papilionacea. Stamina diadelpha. Stylus 

 complanatus, apice dilatatus, antice villosus aut pubescens. 

 Legwnen oblongum, polyspermum, bivalve, 1-locuJare. 

 Semina globosa aut angulata. — Herbae scepius scandentes. 

 Stipulae semisagittatce. Petioli apice in cirrhum ramosum 

 abeuntes. Poliola 1 — Sjuga. Pedunculi axillares. D C. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Lathyrus pubescens ; superne molliter subsericeo-pubes- 

 cens, caule quadrangulari anguste alato, foliis cirrhosis 

 unijugis, foliolis oblongo-lanceolatis nervosis mucrona- 

 tis petiolum duplo superantibus, stipulis semisagittato- 

 ovatis petiolum subaequantibus, cirrhis trifidis, pedun- 

 culis folium multoties superantibus multifloris, calyci- 

 bus germiuibusque sericeis, dentibus calycinis lato- 

 lanceolatis subaequalibus. 



Lathyrus pubescens. Hook, et Am. in Bot. of Beech. Voy. 

 p. 21 . Hook. Bot. Misc. v. 3. p. 198. 



Lathyrus acutifolius ? Vogel, in Linneea, v. 13. p. 21. 



A hardy greenhouse plant, perhaps even able to bear 

 cultivation entirely in the open border. It is grown, we 

 believe, in several collections^ and was introduced by Mr. 

 Tweedie from Buenos Ayres ; but whether it is found wild 

 near that place, or only in the interior of the Argentine 



province, 



