hardly perfe&t: /eaffers elliptical, green, {mooth, for the moft part 
open and not folded as in (a). S#/pu/es minute and falling early, 
Inflorefcence in termival racemes of fine yellow flowers. Braées 
ciliated, deciduous. Peduncles about the length of the calyx, 
moftly red, villous. Calyx 2-lipped, 5-toothed, 4: under lip twice 
_ the length of the upper. Vexi//um oval, quite entire, reflexed in 
the day, but at night clofing over and proteéting the ale and 
carina. Filaments all conneéted. Germen linear, ftraight : flyle 
afcending: /figma capitate. Legume oblong, narrowed at the 
bafe, glandular-muricate. 
This is an ereét fhrub, growing feveral feet high ; and has 
by no means proftrate flems, nor are the leaflets ordinarily 
conduplicate. It poffeffes very little hoarinefs or clamminefs ; 
and appears to us to correfpond better with the Cyrisus primus 
of Ciusius, than the /ecundus; and, like it, the leaves have a 
leguminous tafte, and though bitter are not intenfely fo, We 
confider Genisva canarienfis, of which the Cyrisus primus of 
C.usius was made a fynonyin by Linn vs, to be altogether 
a diftin& plant, bearing its flowers in crowded clufters at. the 
extremities of the branchlets, not in pyramidal racemes as in. 
our plant, and in Ciustus’s figure. Communicated by Meffrs. 
Loppices and Sons. Flowers in Auguft. Native of Spain, 
a and Southern France. Requires fome prote€tion from 
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