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PSORALEA ACULEATA. PrIcKLY PsoraLra.- 
Class and Order. 
‘Draperpnta Decanpria. 
Generic Character. 
Cal. longitudine Leguminis. Stam. diadelpha. Legumen 
monospermum, subrostratum, evalve. 
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Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Psoratea aculeata; foliis ternatis: foliolis cuneiformibus 
recurvato-mucronatis, floribus axillaribus solitariis ap- 
proximatis. Hort. Kew. ed. 1™* 3. p. 79.—ed. alt. 4 
p. 375. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. p. 1343. 
Psoraea aeuleata; foliis ternatis: foliolis cuneiformibus re- 
curvo-mucronatis, capitulis terminalibus. Sp. Pi. 1074 7 
Persoon Syn. 2. p. 346 ? 
Psorarea aculeata ; foliis ternatis minimis confertissimis re- 
curvatis in spinulam desinentibus. Bot. Repos. 146. 
Genista-Spartium africanum trifolium, floribus cceruleis, 
foliis minimis in spinulam recurvam desinentibus. 
- Raj. Dendr, 104. 
That the pretty shrub we have here represented, is the 
Psoratea aculeata of the Hortus Kewensis admits of no 
doubt ; but it is not quite so certain that it is the same species 
as the one so named by Linnazus; on which subject it is 
very evident that Persoon entertained a doubt, by his having 
quoted the figure in the Botanist’s repository with a note of 
mterrogation. This difficulty is not occasioned merely by 
the inflorescence being described in the Species Plantarum as 
a terminal capitulum, instead of being solitary and axillary ‘ 
for the approximation of the flowers towards the extremities 
of the branches often gives the appearance of a capitulum, 
especially in dried specimens, to which only Lixxavus 
probably 
