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CHORGZEMA* triangulares 



Triangular Chorozema. 



DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Leguminoss; Juss. %. Sophoreae D. C. {Introduction to 

 the natural system of Botany, p. 87.) 



CHOROZEMA.—Supn), vol. 12. fol. 986. 



C. triangular e ; foliis subhastatis pinnatifidis spinosis acumine integro laciniis 



longiore, bracteolis ad apicem pedicelli. 



Frutex habit u C. nani. Differt foliis pinnatifidis, laciniis divaricatis 

 spinosis triangularibus : supremo, longiore, nee non bracteolis pedicelli calyci 

 proximis nee intervallo quodam distantibus. Vexillum lateritio-coccineum., 

 basi maculd viridi. Alse sanguinece. 



A native of the south-west coast of New Holland, where 

 its seeds were found by the collector Baxter. 



It differs from C. nan um in having its leaves much more 

 deeply pinnatifid ; the segments all very much divaricated, 

 that of the apex about twice as long as the others, and the 

 lowest proceeding from so near the base as to give the leaf 

 a hastate appearance. We also find that the bracteolae, 

 which in C. nanum are at a small distance from the calyx, 

 are in this species immediately at the base of the calyx. 



" M. Labillardiere originally discovered this genus upon the south-west 

 coast of New Holland, at the foot of the mountains, in a loamy soil, near 

 the spot where, after having been tantalised with finding many salt springs, 

 his party had just met with an ample supply of fresh water. This welcome 

 refreshment, of which he speaks feelingly in his book, seems to have sug- 

 gested a name for this plant, which he had properly determined to constitute 

 a new genus. He called it Chorozema, evidently from £«ga?, a dance, or 

 joyous assembly, and typx, a drink ; in allusion to the circumstance just 

 mentioned." — (Smith.) 



