Tas. 5019. 
LUPINUS Menzissu. 
Mr. Menzies’ Lupine. 
Nat. Ord. LEGUMINOS#.—DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx sepe bracteolatus, profunde bilabiatus, sepalis in utroque 
labio plus minus coalitis. Corolla papilionacea; vevillo lateribus reflexis; alis 
antice infra medium externe foveolato-plicatis, postice superne conglutinatis ; 
carina acuminata, genitalia includente: pefalis (ejus) basi liberis. Stamina 
monadelpha, vagina integra; antheris sepalis oppositis oblongis, preecocioribus ; 
petalis oppositis, subreniformibus, senioribus. Stigma barbatum. Legumen coria- 
aceum, fere oblongum, compressum, teretiusculum, torulosum, intus isthmis cel- 
lulosis interceptum. Cotyledones crassee, stomatibus ornate. Agardh. 
Lupinus Menziesii ; (perennis ?), floribus in spica longissima verticillatis pedi- 
cellatis, pedicellis bracteas subsetaceas persistentes subzequantibus, calycis 
ebracteolati labiis integris, superiore scarioso, inferiore herbaceo duplo 
longiore. Agardh. : 
Lupinus Menziesii. 4g. Syn. Gen. Lup. p. 2. Hook. et Arn. Bot. of Beech. 
Voy. Suppl. p. 335. Torrey et Gray, Fl. N. Am. v. 1. p: 371. (dn L. den- 
siflorus, Benth. ?) 
This is a Californian, somewhat shrubby Lupine, sent to the 
Royal Gardens by Mr. Thomson, of Ipswich, as a species un- 
known to him. I am therefore alone responsible for the name 
here given; and I should have the more confidence in the cor- 
rectness of this appellation (and the more so as Agardh says the 
flowers are yellow, a colour far from common among the North 
American species) were it not for the observation of the excellent 
Dr. Torrey, ‘Botany of Captain Whipple’s Expedition,’ viz. that 
“Lupinus densiforus, Benth.” (an older name), “and LZ. Men- 
ziesit, Agardh, cannot be kept distinct : both have white flowers;” 
and he considers that Agardh was under a mistake in pronouncing 
(from the dried specimens) that they were yellow. This view re- 
specting the colour of Z. Menziesii seems to be confirmed by Mr. 
Bentham, judging from an observation in ‘Plantes Hartwegiane,’ 
p. 303: “Planta. Douglasiana quam sub nomine L. densiflori 
olim descripsi est Z. Aenziesii, Ag.;” and this L. densiflorus, 
DECEMBER Ist, 1857. 
