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Lebeckia nuda. Naked Lebeckia. 



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C/ass flwrf Order. 



DlADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cal. 5-partitus: Iaciniis acutis; sinubus rotundatis. Legu- 

 men cylindricum, polyspermum. 



Specific Character. 



Lebeckia nuda; subaphylla, ramulis alternis teretibus mu- 

 cronatis, racemis axillaribus, corollis calycibus pedicellis 

 que concoloribus. 



Descr. Shrub between two and three feet high., upright : 

 branchlets (probably in reality the footstalks of a compound 

 leaf, the leaflets of which are mostly abortive) rounded, ter- 

 minated with a soft mucro : leaflets only here and there a 

 defective one, ovate, recurved. Flowers purple, on axillary 

 racemes, longer than the branchlet. Pedicles nodding, equal 

 to or longer than the calyx, which is cupshaped, with five 

 acute teeth all pointing downwards, whence the two upper ones 

 are distant with a wide rounded sinus between them. Corolla 

 papilionaceous, red-purple, as are the calyx and pedicle. Vex- 

 ilium erect, spreading, obovate, having a streaked star at the 

 base and very short claw. Alee the length of the vexillum, 

 rounded at the base. Petals of the Carina joined together 

 at the apex, prolonged at the base into long, subulate, recurved 

 spurs, whence the claw appears to be in the middle of the 

 Petal. Stamens diadelphous ; anthers minutely awned, by 

 the point of the filament projecting beyond its lobes. Germen 

 linear ; many seeded : style rising at a right angle : stigma 

 capitate, lobed. 



Raised from Cape-seeds in the year 1814, by Messrs. Whit 

 l ey, Brame, and Milne, at the Fulham Nursey, and commu- 

 nicated 



