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Templetonia glauca. Glaucous-leaved 

 Templetonia. 



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Class and Order. 



DlADELPHIA DeCANDRIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cal. ebracteatus, 5-dentatus : dentibus parum inaequalibus. 

 Carina oblonga. Stam. omnia connexa ? antheris uni- 

 formibus. Legumen pedicellatum, plano-compressum, poly- 

 spermum. Semina strophiolata. 



Specific Character. 



Templetonia glauca ; foliis glaucis bracteis duabus calyci 

 approximatis, staminibus hypodiadelphis. 



The plant from which our drawing was taken was commu- 

 nicated by Mr. William Kent, from his curious collection 

 of exotics at Clapton. It differs from Templetonia relusa 

 chiefly in the glaucous colour of the leaves, which are 

 obcordate-cuneate, slightly emarginate, with a small mucro : 

 those on the young shoots are yellowish green and not at all 

 glaucous. The flowers arc large, of a deep scarlet colour, 

 axillary, solitary, on short peduncles, which arc furnished 

 with two concave bractes close to the calyx, but not attached 

 thereto. These bractes in retusa are described as being 

 situated in the middle of the peduncle, and, if constant, this 

 circumstance may afford a good distinguishing character. 

 The petals are all nearly equal in length : vexillum oblong- 

 ovate, emarginate, concave, in our plant not at all reflexed : 

 aU linear lanceolate : petals of the carina united at the 

 tip. Stamens, which in retusa are described as monadel- 

 phous, were not altogether so; one of the filaments being 



shorter 



