( 1850 ) 

 Hallia imbricata. Imbricated Hallia. 



Class and Order. 



DlADELPHIA DeCANDRIA. 



Generic Character. 

 Cat. 5-partitus, regularis. Legumen 1-spermum, bivalve. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Hallia imbricata ; foliis cordato-ovatis convolutis imbricatis, 

 floribus axillaribus sessilibus. Thunb. Prodr. p. 131. 

 Willd. Sp. PL v. 3. p. 1170. 



Hedysarum imbricatum. Thunb. in Nov. Act. Upsal. v. 6. 

 p. 42. t. 1. Suppl. PI. p. 330. 



This very rare plant, not recorded in the last edition of 

 the Hortus Kewensis, was communicated by Messrs. Lod- 

 mges and Sons, in August 1813. 



Native of the Cape of Good-Hope ; represented by Thun- 

 berg as growing among grass., upon very slender stems, but 

 erect at the upper part. 



In our specimen, the stem was firmer, and had more the 

 appearance of a low shrub. Leaves imbricated toward the 

 extremities of the branches, ciliated with strong hairs along 

 the margin and the mid -rib, and terminated with a soft mucro ; 

 they were mostly folded together, partly concealing the flower, 

 which was solitary, axillary, and nearly sessile. We know of 

 no figure but the one in the New Upsal Transactions, above 

 quoted. Jacquin, in the second volume of the Hortus 

 Schoenbrunnensis, has given the figure of a very nearly -allied 

 species, under the name of Glycine monophylla ; but which 

 is certainly not the plant so called by Linnaeus. Jacquin's 

 plant, though in many respects similar, we take to be a 

 distinct species from ours, having its stalks entirely prostrate, 

 leaves more distant, and not folded upon the flower. Pro- 

 pagated by seeds. 



