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DALEA MUTABILIS. CHANGEABLE DALEA. 
KEE KEE KEKE EEE EEK EEK KEK 
Class and Order. 
Diape.eH1A DecanprRiA. 
Generic Character. 
Ale et Carine columne staminum adnate. Stam. 5-10, 
connata, absque filamento libero. Legwmen monosper- 
mum. bits 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
- Datea mutabilis; foliis impari-pinnatis; pinnulis obovatis 
| emarginatis glabris punctatis, spicis terminalibus. 
Cav. Ic. 4. n. A85. t. 394. (sub Psoralea). 
Daea mutabilis ; decandra, spicis cylindraceis _termina- 
~_. foliis decemjugis obcordatis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 3. 
p. 1339. : 
Datea bicolor ; spicis terminualibus elongatis, foliis sub- 
qiinquejugis obovatis, caule fruticoso. Willd. Hort. 
Berol. 2. p. 89. t.89. Enum. p. 787. 
_ Descr. A slender shrub; branches smooth. Leaves al- 
_ternate, odd-pinnate: leaflets from seven to fifteen, obo- 
_ Yate, with the point sometimes rounded, more frequently 
_ marginate, dotted with transparent Se 
‘held to the light, give an appearance as if the leaf were 
_ perforated, as in the common St. John’s Wort. Stipules 
Small, subulate, inserted within the footstalk. Peduncles 
| terminal, solitary, bearing the flowers in a close spike, 
. lengthening as the flowers expand. Bractes ovate, con- 
_ y*ve, mucronate, persistent. Calyx of one leaf, five-toothed, 
‘try, membranaceous, with ten green streaks. Standard 
_ Nhite, Ovate-cordate, with a slender claw, longer than the 
_'Imb; wings and keel shorter by half than the standard, 
. » eg tipped with purple, colour encreasing with age. 
Filaments all connected downwards, free above: cca set 
| oval, 
