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PODALYRIA BlFLORA. TWO-FLOWERED 

 PODALYRIA, Or SOPHORA. 



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C7a/> and Order, 

 Decandria Monogynia, 



Generic Charatler. 



Cal. fubbilabiatus 5-fidus. Cor, papilionacea, alae vexilli Ion* 

 gitudine. Legumen ventricofum polyfpermum. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 



PODALYRIA biflora ; foliis fimplicibus ovatis fubtomentofis, 

 pedunculis bifloris, calycibus bafi intrufis to- 

 mentofis coloratis. Willd, Sp, PI, v, 2, p. 505. 



PODALYRIA. Lamarck Illuft, Gen. t. 327. /. 3. 



SOPHORA biflora, Retz. Ob/. 1. p. 36. Mart, Mill, Di£I. 

 n. 21. Hori, Kew, 2, 46. ? 



Desc. Stalk fhrubby, branched: younger branches downy, 

 round. Leaves oval, [harp at both ends, with a fmall acuminate 

 reflexed point, filky on both fides, with filvery adprefled hairs, 

 margin ruft-coloured, nearly feflile. Petiole very fhort, ex- 

 ceeded in length by a pair of fubulate adprefled flipules. Pe- 

 duncle nearly terminal, twice the length of the leaves, divided 

 into two pedicles, each having a thick blunt fcale or bra&e at 

 the bafe and fupporting a large white flower that changes 

 reddifh with age. Calyx three-toothed, fubbilabiate, hollowed 

 at the bafe as if the footftalk was pufhed in, covered with a 

 ruft-coloured tomentum. The long ftrigae making the calyx 

 appear larger than the corolla mentioned by Retz i us we do 

 not underftand. Corolla papilionaceous: ftandard large, ob- 

 cordate ; wings fhorter than the ftandard, axe-fhaped, clawed ; 

 keel fhorter than thefe, including the parts of fructification. 

 Stamens, in the flowers we examined, only feven : filaments 



diftina, 



