C 1580 ] 



PODALYRIA STYRACIFOLIA. StORAX-LEAVED 

 PODALYRIA. 



Clafs and Order. 

 Decandria Monocynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cal. 5-fidus, insqualis, bafi intrufa. Cor. papilionacea, vexillo 

 majore. Stamina perfiftentia, bafi connata. Legumcn ventricofum, 

 polyfpermum. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



PODALYRIA jlyracifdia ; foliis ovatis reticularis, ramis birtis 

 angulato-ftriatis, pedunculis unifloris folium aequantibus, 

 calycibus ferrugineo-tomentofis vexillifque reflexis. 



PODALYRIA calyptrata; foliis ovalibus obovatifque pubefcen- 

 tibus : fubtus reticularis ; adultis non fericeis, pedunculis 

 unifloris folia fubaequantibus, calycibus viilofis : limbo 

 fcariofo reflexo. Brown Hirt. Kew. ed. ait. 3. p. 7. ? 



PODALYRIA calyptrata. Willd.Sp.PL 2./. 504; 9 Retz.Obf. 



CROTOLARIA foliis fimplicibus ovatis viilofis, petiolis fim- 

 pliciflimis, ramis teretibus. Hort. Cliff. 357 .«? 



GENISTA africana arborefcens, calyce fcabro, foliis falicis 

 caprese rotundifoliae, floribus amplis purpureis. Raj. Dcnd % 

 106. n. 49. 



GENISTA africana ftyracis folio flore purpurco. Seb<e Muf. 2. 



'• 99 •/ 3- 



As we have not been able to fatisfy ourfelves that our plant 

 is certainly the fame which Mr. Brown- has defcribed under the 

 name of calyptrata, and the covering obierved by Retzius 

 °ver the unopened flower being common to every fpecies of the 

 genus, as now conftituted, and of courfe that name equally ap- 

 plicable to all, we have thought it better to adopt the more 

 a Ppropriate one given to it in the Banklian Herbarium. 



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