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| Lupinus Arsorevs. 
TREE LupINn, > 
ital taiel . 
~DraperpHia DECANDRIA. 
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Generic Charafer. 
Cal. 2-labiatus. Anibere 5-oblonge, 5 fubrotunda. Le. 
; g4men Coriaceum. — Se ae ee : 
S, ‘pecific Charaffer and Synonyms. 
LUPINUS arborens ; fruticofus, calycibus verticillatis inap- 
-pendiculatis pedicellatis: labiis acutis integerrimis. 
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. _ Desc. A low fhrub. rank woody, branches fucculent. 
Leaves petiolated, grow at their firft coming out in alternate - 
- fafcicles about four together: /eaflets lanceolate, broadeit to- 
_ Wards the point, acuminate, flightly pubefcent or filky under- 
— heath, Stipule fubulate. Flowers in terminal, diftantly verti- 
 Gillated fpikes, 3—5 in each whorl, with pedicles nearly the | 
length of the flower, fweet-{cented. Calyx bilabiate: lips entire, 
acute, keeled; the upper one fhorteft. Corolla yellow; vexil- — 
lum orbiculate, refleéted at the fides: ale large, covering the 
_ Carina and joined together at the point: carina acute black- 
Pointed. Pod flat, pointed at both ends. Seeds fomewhat ob- _ 
long, very little flattened, fhining, black. a is 
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Lamarck has enumerated in the Encyclopeedia feveral fpe- 
_ Ges with a fhrubby ftalk, all natives of South-America; the 
— One he calls mu/tiforus appears to refemble our plant in its 
_ foliage, but to be very different in its flowers: all the others 
_ are quite diffimilar. a : 
_. Our drawing was made at Mefirs. Grtmwoop and Wyxes’s, © 
~ Kenfington, in July 1801. It is ufually treated as a green- — 
— houfe plant, but at the Botanic Garden, Oxford, we obferved 
In the fame year a large fhrub growing in the open ground. 
ima fheltered fituation, in front of the greenhoufe, where it 
Produced abundance of ripe feeds. st” 
Its native country is unknown to us. 
