perfinent. Calyx intruded at the bafe, five-toothed, lowermoft 

 tooth longer than the reft. Corolla papilionaceous : vexillum 

 large, orbicular, emarginate, yellow with an irregular purplifh 

 brown fpot at the bafe, from which flightly coloured veins 

 extend near to the margin : carina incurved at the point and 

 terminated with a beak (giving it fomewhat the appearance 

 of a bird's head) covered by the al<e, which are oblong, very 

 obtufe ; fhorter than the vexillum. Stamens ten, diftinft, in- 

 ferted into a flefhy receptacle furrounding the bafe of the 

 germett, which is oblong; attenuated at both ends : Jfyle long, 

 afcending : jligma hairy. Legumen, in a native fpecimen, 

 nearly two inches long, rather lefs than half an inch broad, 

 flat, rugofe, woody, black, terminated with the recurved per- 

 fiftent ftyle, and marked by the impreffion of the kidney- 

 fhaped feeds, attached along the upper future. The outline 

 added to our figure was taken from an imperfeel pod, pro- 

 duced here, which contained no feeds. It was fufficient to 

 ihew that the fhrub was no Gompholobium, as had been 

 imagined. 



Mr. Salisbury, in the ninth volume of the TranfaQions 

 of the Linnean Society, has very judicioufly remarked that 

 the genus Sophora, as framed by Linn thus, -contains fe- 

 veral very diftinQ; genera, and that Sophora genijloides, to 

 which, he fays, may probably be added temata and triphylla 

 of Thunberg, will conftitute one genus, of which, however, 

 he has not favoured us either with the characters or a name. 

 Thefe deficiencies we have attempted to fupply ; wifhing to 

 dedicate this genus to Mrs. Agnes Ibbetson, the author 

 of feveral very ingenious and inftruclive papers on vegetable 

 phyfiology publifhed in Nicholson's Philosophical Journal. 



Befides Thun berg's fpecies, we think two or three very 

 diltinct ones have hitherto been confounded under the name of 

 genijloides. 



Native of the Cape- of Good Hope. Flowering with us 

 at Midfumm'er, and requiring the protection of a greenhoufe. 

 Our drawing was taken at Mr. Whitley's, Old-Bromptcm. 



