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Lotus Jacoszus. BLack-FLoweEr’D 
| Lotus. 
Cla/s and Order. 
DravELtepHIA DECANDRIA. 
Generic Charaéter. 
Legumen cylindricum ftritum. Ale furfum longitudinaliter 
conniventes. Cal. tubulofus. 
S. ‘pecific CharaGer and Synonyms. 
LOTUS acobeus. leguminibus fubternatis, caule herbaceo’ 
: ereéto, foliolis linearibus. Lina. Sy/t. Veg. 691. 
LOTUS anguftifolia, flore luteo purpurafcente, infule S. 
Jacobi. Comm. hort. 2. p. 165. t. 83. 
- This fpecies of Lotus has been called black-flower’d, not — 
that the flowers are abfolutely black, for they are of a very 
rich brown inclined to purple, but becaufe they appear fo at — 
a little diftance; the light colour of the foliage contributes — 
not a little to this appearance. 7 
*‘ It grows naturally in the Ifland of St. James; is too — 
*‘ tender to live abroad in England, fo the plants muft be | 
“kept in pots, and in the winter placed in a warm airy glafs — 
“* cafe, but in the fummer they fhould be placed abroad ina — 
“ fheltered fituation. It may be eafily propagated by cuttings — 
“ during the fummer feafon, and alfo by feeds, but the plants — 
“* which have been two or three times propagated by cuttings, — 
* feldom are fruitful.” Miller's Gard. DiG. | 
‘It continues to flower during the whole of the fummer; 25 — 
it is very apt to die off without any apparent caufe, care — 
fhould be taken to have a fucceffion of plants from feeds, if 
poffible. 2S. ; 
