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CLITORIA HETEROPHYLLA. Hoopep- 
FLOWERED CLITORIA. ; 
Te teieak tee eee eae eRe 
7 Class and Order. 
Diapetrars Decanpria. 
Generic Character. 
- Cor. resupinata : vexillo maximo, patente, alas obumbrante. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Currori heterophylla ; foliis impari-pinnatis : foliolis subtri- 
jugis orbiculato-ovatis emarginatis, vexillis cucullatis. 
Curroria heterophylla; foliis pinnatis : foliolis quinis, aliis 
rotundioribus, aliis lanceolatis, aliis linearibus. Lam. 
Encycl. 2. p. 51. Vent. Choix. des Pl. t. 26. Desfont. 
Ann. du Mus. 1. p. 202. Persoon Syn. 2. p. 302. 
This plant has the name of heterophylla given it from the leaf- 
_ lets, which are generally rounded, being sometimes lanceolate 
and even linear upon the same individual ; as was the case both 
in the one figured by Venrenar and in that described by M. 
ESFONTAINES. In those cultivated at Spofforth by the Hon. 
Wirtiam Hersert, to whom we are indebted for the speci- 
mens from which our drawing was taken, no such variation in 
the form of the foliage was observed. Mr. Herserr remarks, 
that he had never flowered this pretty plant till this last 
summer, though he has had it produce ripe seed, but its flowers 
are often clandestine, or at most only shew the points of the 
petals, when they wither without expanding, yet the seed will 
be perfected. The present plant, a seedling, flowered beau- 
tifully. Mr. Herserr has observed the same in another 
Specimen of Currorta, which often produced ripe seeds, 
without ever perfecting a single flower, whilst other ee 
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