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BorBoNIA RUSCIFOLIA. Burcurr’s-Broom- 
LEAVED BORBONIA. 
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Class and Order. 
Drapetpn1a DecanpRiA. 
Generic Character. 
Stigma emarginatum. (al. acuminato-spinosus. Legu- 
men mucronatum. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Borronia ruscifolia ; foliis semiamplexicaulibus ovato-cor- 
datis mucronatis ciliatis, dente calycis inferiore carinam 
#quante. 
Pianta leguminosa etlriopica, foliis rusci. Breyn. Cent. 
t. 28. 
Borzonsa cordata. «. Banks. Herb. 
The Borronta cordata figured by Jacquin in his Hortus 
Schcenbrunnensis, and which appears to us to be the Linnean 
plant, is in many respects very different from our present 
subject. The leaves of cordata are quite entire with smooth 
margins, they are also much narrower, with the nerves 
closer together ; calyx and corolla yery villous, which in rus- 
cifolia are nearly smooth; the shape of the vexillum is 
obcordate, in our plant it is broadest at the base, with the 
margins revolute. 
Breynivs’s figure above quoted as a synonym of our plant, 
has been referred by Linnaus in the Species Plantarum to his 
eordata, and retained there by WuipExow. At No. 274 of 
our work, the same synonym is referred we believe on the 
authority of SoLanper, to Borgonsa crenata. But it seems 
to 
