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Borsonta CRENATA. HEART-LEAVED © 
fee = BORBONIA. ; 
SHHCHSHEHE HEHEHE + 
Clafs and Order. 
DIaADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Generic Charaéfer. — 
Cal. acuminato-fpinofus. Stigma emarginatum. Legume 
mucronatum. 
Specific Charader and Synonyms. 
BORBONIA crenata foliis cordatis multinerviis denticulatis. 
7 Linn. Syft. Vegetab. ed.14. Murr. p. 643. Ait. 
Kew. v. 2. p. 9. | ae 
FRUTEX ethiopicus \eguminofus, foliis rufci majoribus in — 
ambitu fpinulis fimbriatis. Pluk. dim.159- 
PLANTA leguminofa ethiopica, foliis rufci. Breyn. Cent, — 
t. 28. | ee leg 
pad eer eae 
Borbonia is a genus of plants eftablithed by Linnaus inthe — 
6th edition of his Genera Plantarum ; of this genus there are — 
fix {pecies enumerated in the 9d edition of the Species Plant. — 
and two in the Hort. Kew. the latter of which, the crenata, 
introduced from the Cape by Mr. Masson, in 1774, is here 
figured. oo : ap 
It is a {mall fhrubby plant, rarely exceeding the. height of a 
three feet, producing its flowers in a {mall clufter on the fum- 
mits of the branches; thefe are of a yellow colour, and have 
nothing about them peculiarly fingular, or beautiful ; it 33_ 
_the foliage alone which renders this plant defirable ina 
le€tion. ; oa 
__ It flowers from June to Auguft, and in favourable feafor 
ripens its feeds, by which the plant is ufually propagated. | 
