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feous at the base on the upper side, ttiargln 5-toothed, 

 obtuse. Flowers white, rather large; vexillum resupinate, 

 reflected, the claw rigid, limb rounded and obcordate; 

 wings oblong, horizontal; carina of 2 petals cohering 

 above, each with a single denture near the base and sub- 

 ulately terminated above as in Oxytropis. Filaments dia- 

 delphous, 9 and 1, but divided down nearly to the 

 base. Germ cylindric and villous; style short rising 

 erect, subcapitate. Legume not seen, — but the striking^ 

 affinity of this plant to the well preserved specimens of 

 S. alopecurddes in the Banksian herbarium justifies its 

 admission into this genus. I am also obliged, however 

 unwillingly, to state, after seeing the specimen so mark- 

 ed by the autiior himself, in the lierbarium of A. B, Lam- 

 bert esq. that i'. is is Mtragalus carnosvs.' of Mr. Pursh, 

 Flor. Am. 2. p. 740. Supplement; he having by mistake, 

 applied the description of the fruit of an Astragalus whick 

 I had published to this species of Sophora. 



A small and widely dispersed but scarcely natural ge- 

 nus, of which there are 2 very splendid and aborescent 

 species in New Zealand, which now form the genus Ed- 

 ■wardsiOi 1 in tropical America? 2 in India, 1 in the Isle of 

 France, 1 in the Levant, greatly resembling that which 

 we have described, 1 in Siberia, and 1 in Japan. 



400. BAPTISIA. Ventenat. B, Brown. Poda- 

 lYRiA. Michaux. Lamark, Willdenow, (\Mid 

 Indigo.) 



Calix half 4 or 5-cIeft, bilabiate. Corolla pa- 

 pilionaceous, petals nearly equal in length; re.x- 

 ilhiTii laterally reflected. Stamina deciduous. 

 Legume ventricose, pedicellate, many-seeded. — 

 BfiowN. Hort. Kew. 3. p. 5. 



Herbaceous perennials; leaves tcrnate, stipulate; flov/- 

 ers in terminal rarely lateral spites or racemes, in some 

 species solitary and axillary; in B. perfoliala, the leaves are 

 obicular and perfoliate. 



Species. 1. B.perfoUata. 2. iinifora. S.villosa. Obs. 

 Legume oblong, obtuse, subcylindric; allied to alba. 4. 

 alba. 5. canilea. 6. inollis. l^eavcs conspicuously petio- 

 late. This is ti»e lowest species with which I am ac- 

 quainted, and possesses the aspect of an herbaceous 

 Psoraha. Stem jjurplish, somewhat decumbent, pubes- 

 cent; leaves often 2 inches long and 1 wide, minutely 

 pubescent on both sides; convsTion peduncle 3 4 of an inch 

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