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* COLUTEA nepalensis. 

 Nepal Bladder-senna. 



DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. LEGUMiNOSiE § LoTE.E D. C. (^Introduction to the Natural 

 System of Botany, j). 87.) 



COLUTEA L. Calyx 5-dentatus. Vexillum explanatum, bicallosum, 

 carina obtusa majus. Stamina diadelpha (9 et 1.) Stigma laterale sub apice 

 styli uncinato. Stylus postice longitudinaliter barbatus. Leguvien stipitatum 



cymbiformi-ovatum inflatum scariosum. Yxwticea inermes. Stipulae ^oruc, 



caidince. FoUa impari-pinnata. Racemi axillares, paucijiori, foliis patdo 

 breviores. De Cand. Prodr. 2. 270. 



C. nepalensis ; foliolis subrotundo-ellipticis retusis, racemis paucifloris nutan- 

 tibus, callis vexilli papilliformibus, leguminibus coriaceis pubescentibus. 

 Spreng. cur. post. p. 278. 



C. nepalensis. Sims in Bat. Mag. t. 2622. 



This hardy shrub was introduced to our gardens from 

 Nipal some years since, but it has as yet been little culti- 

 vated. In point of appearance it is when young far more 

 handsome than the common Bladder Sennas. Its leaflets 

 are rounder and more shining, and its flowers of a lighter 

 and rather brighter tint, with a more graceful arrangement 

 on the branches ; it is moreover a smaller and neater-look- 

 ing species. 



From the character above quoted from Sprengel, the 

 pods would seem to be materially different from those of the 

 common species ; but we have never seen them. No speci- 

 mens were distributed under Dr. Wallich's direction ; nor 

 indeed are we aware of any wild specimens having been seen 

 in herbaria. 



Flowers in June ; increased by layers. 



* Tbe KoXourta of Thcophrastus is supposed to have been the Colutea 

 cruenia of modern Botanists. 



