vexillum ovate emarginate, folded inwards so as to conceal 

 both ala and carina, which are shorter by half. Stamens 

 diadelphous {-. Gerrnen very hairy. Style filiform : stigma 

 capitate, yellow. Legume villous, rhomboid, inflated. 

 Seeds 2, round, gibbous, not unaptly resembling a ram's 

 head, (especially before it is ripe, for in drying it becomes 

 smoother) whence its trivial name. It is said to vary with 

 black, white, and reddish brown seeds. 



This plant is much cultivated in the South of Europe, 

 Africa, and the East Indies, and is supposed to be the most 

 nutritive of any kind of puis. In France it is used roasted 

 as a substitute for Coffee. 



It does not appear that there is more than one species of 

 this genus, such plants as have been united with it being 

 better referred to other genera. The English name of 

 Chick-pea in both editions of the Hortus Kewensis is a cor- 

 ruption of Chick-pea. 



Our drawing was made from a plant raised last summer 

 in Mr. Jenkins's Nursery, in the Regent's Park. 



