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Ibbetsonia genistoides. Spotted- 

 flowered Ibbetsonia. 



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C/d/} #>/i Order. 

 Decandria Monogynia. 



Generic CharatJer. 



Cal. bafi intrufus, 5-dentatus, dente imo longiore. Cor. 

 papilionacea : vexillum maximum, emarginatum : carina in- 

 flexo-mucronata, i2//jteBa. Legumen pedicellatum, oblongum, 

 comprefTum, ftylo recurvo mucronatum, coriaceum, 1-loculare, 

 polyfpermum. Sent, reniformia, glabra. Frutices projefluris* 

 Jlipularibus, foliis ternatis, fortius axillaribus, bracleis caiyci- 

 formibus. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 



IBBETSONIA geniftoides ; foliis glabris flore longioribus, 



floribus axillaribus folitariis maculatis. 

 SOPHORA geniftoides; foliis ternatis feffilibus : foliolis li- 



nearibus. Sp. PL 534. Thunb. Prod. 79. 

 PODALYRIA geniftoides ; foliis ternatis feflilibus, foliolis 



linearibus mucronatis margine revolutis. Willd. 



Sp. PL 2. p. 502. 

 GENISTA rofmarini folio triphyllos. Pluk. Amalth. t. 43. 



/. 5. Mant. p. 87. 

 GOMPHCLOBIUM maculatum. Bot.Repof. 42 7. 



Desc. Stem fhrub':y, with long, ere£t, furrowed branches. 

 Stipules cartilaginous projections, from the hollow of which 

 the leaves arife. Leaves ternate, feffile, crowded together : 

 leaflets linear, fmooth, longer than the flower. Peduncles 

 about the length of the calyx, furnifhed at the bafe with three 

 °r four roundiih concave bracles, refembling a fecond calyx, 



. Prcje3ura eft corticis prominentia, quam ftifuhrem voco dum foliis, 

 *w8<elm dam floribus fuffulcrum prsbet, 



perfiftent. 



