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LlPARIA SPHjERICA. RUSCUS-LEAVED 



LlPARIA. 



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Clafs and Order. 



DlADELPHIA DeCANDRIA. 



Generic Cbaracler. 



Cal. 5-fidus : lacinia infima elongata. Corolla alas inferius bi- 

 lobse. Staminis majoris dentes tres breviores. Legumen ovatum. 



Specific Characler and Synonyms. 



LlPARIA fph<erica ; floribus capitatis, foliis lanceolatis ner- 

 vofis glabris. Willi. Sp. PL 3. 1224. Mant. 268. 

 Reich. 3. 479. Thunb. Prod. 124. Bit. Repof. 568. 



GENISTA africana, Rufci foliis longioribus, floribus luteis 

 in globum congeftis. Raj. Dend. 107. n. 65. 



It was from this fpecies that Linnaeus conftrufted the genus 

 Liparia as diftinft from Borbonia, to which it is very 

 nearly allied. It does not indeed appear to us that the two 

 genera are as yet very well diftinguifhed ; at lead the fpecies 

 have been hitherto fo arranged, that many of the Boibonias 

 have much greater affinity with fome that rank under Liparia, 

 than they have with their prefent companions. Some, perhaps, 

 do not properly belong to either genus. Lamarck unites 

 both; but Lipari a fpb<?rica is very remarkable for its large 

 braft.es, its petal-like calyx, and fingular convolution of the 

 alae round the carina and one another. Not one of the de- 

 fcribed fpecies, that we have feen, has the fame characters, 

 although amongft dried fpecimens we have met with two others, 

 in every refpeft: clofely allied. Perhaps thefe may hereafter be 

 found to be in the collection at Fonthill, as we are informed 

 in the Botanift's Repofitory, that Mr. Milne, the gardener, 

 fuppofes he has two other new fpecies of the fame genus, which 

 have not yet bloffomed. 



Native of the Cape of Good-Hope. Requires the protec- 

 tion of a greenhoufe, and the fame treatment as the Sophoras 

 and Crotalarias from the fame country. Flowers in July. 



Our drawing was made from a plant in the collection of the 

 late Right Hon. Charles Greville, at Paddington. Intro- 

 duced, according to Donn, in his Hortus Cantabrigeivlis in the 

 year 1783. 



