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Cutoria Ternatea, Wing-leaved 

 Clitoria. 



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Clqfs and Order. 



DlADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Generic Character. 

 Or. fupinata : vexillo maximo patente alas obumbrante. 



Specific Character and Synonyms, 



CLITORIA Ternatea; foliis quinato-pinnatis, pedunculis axil- 



laribus unifloris. Willd. Sp, PL 3. p. 1068. 

 CLITORIA Ternatea ; foliis pinnatis. Sp. PL 1025. Hort. 



Cliff. 360. 

 SCHLONGA-CUSPI. Hort. Malab. 8. p. 69. t. 38. Hort. 



Kew. ed. alt. p. 300. Lour. Cochinch. 454. G<ert. FruU. 2. 



321. t. 149./ 3. Mart. Mill. DiU. n. 1. 

 PHASEOLUS foliis pinnatis. Eiv. Telr. t. 34. 

 FLOS CyERULEUS. Rumph. Amb. 5. p. 56. /. 31. 

 FLOS CLITORIDIS Ternatenfibus. Breyn. Cent. 76. t. 31. 

 LAT RYRU S fpccJabilis ; caule volubili, foliis felquitrijugis, 



binis fetis interje&is. Forfk. JEgypt. 135. 

 P. PHASEOLUS indicus glycirrhizae foliis, flore amplo cae- 



ruleo plcno. Comm. Hort. 1. p. 47. /. 24. 



The Clitoria Ternatea, from the fize and brilliant colour 



°f its flowers, is a very beautiful annual. It is a native of the warm 



parts of the Eaft-Indies, of Cochin-China, and Egypt, and will 



at no time bear expofure to the open air in our climate. It has 



a climbing herbaceous (Loureiro fays fhrubby) flem, like the 



kidney-bean, and requires the fame fupport. 



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