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Lessertia pulchra. Comtesse de Vandes* 

 Lessertia. 



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C/ass awdf Order. 



DlADELPHIA DeCANDRIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cat. semi-5-fidus. VexiUum explanatum. Carina obtusa. 

 Stigma capitatum. Stylus antice barba transversa apicis, 

 postice imberbis. Legumen scariosum, evalve (compressum 

 vel inflatum). Brown in Hort. Kew. 



Specific Character. 



folii 

 acem 

 pedicellis nutantibus. 



Lessertia pulchra ; foliis septemjugis : foliolis ovatis acutis 

 glabriusculis, racemis axillaribus subcapitatis secundis, 



Descr. Stem fruticose. Leaves odd-pinnate ; alternate, 

 but approximating by pairs : leaflets generally seven pair, 

 with an odd one, ovate, acute, or sometimes obtuse and even 

 emarginate, minutely ciSiate at the edge and along the 

 midrib, otherwise smooth. Stipules ovate-lanceolate, erect, 

 embracing the petiole. Peduncle longer than the leaf, axil- 

 lary, solitary, bearing a subcapitate raceme, with flowers 

 looking one way. Pedicels curved, with a small lanceolate 

 bracte at the base of each. Calyx campanulate, covered 

 With black hairs, with five equal teeth. Vexillwn spreading, 

 deeply emarginate, pale red, streaked with bright red veins. 

 Alee and carina nearly the same length, the latter tipped 

 With dark purple. 



Native of the Cape of Good-Hope. Raised at the garden 

 of the Comtesse de Vandes, at Bayswater, from seeds re- 

 ceived from the Cape, under the name of Colutea fisiulosa 

 (the Lessertia perennans of De Candolle's Astragalogia and 

 Hortus Kewensis) from which species it is very different ; nor 



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