CHAP. XLI. LEGUMINA CEvE. t'OLU^TEA. 



Genus XV. 



635 



CALO'PHACA Fixch. The Calophaca. Lin. Si/sf. Diadelphia Decandriu. 



Identijicalion. Fisoh. ined. ; Dec. Prod. , 2. p. '270. 



Derivation. From knlus, beautiful, and phake, a lentil : in allusion to the beauty of the plant, and to 

 its being one of the leguminaccou.s kind. 



Description .^ Sj-c. There is only one species, which is a deciduous shrul), a 

 native of Siberia. 



at I.e. wolga'rica Fisch. The Wolga Calophaca. 



Identification. Fisch. in Lift. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 270. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 244. 



Synonymes. Cytisus^nigricanj Pall. Itin., 3. p. 7G4. t. G. g. f. 3., ed. Gall. Appcnd.,^o. 358.J;. 101. f. 1. ; 



Engr 



^iricus; and our/g. 316. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaflets 6 or 7 pairs, or- 

 bicular, velvety beneath, as well as the 

 calyxes. (Don's Mill., ii. p. 244.) 

 Description, S^c. A deciduous shrub, found 

 in desert places near the rivers Don and 

 Wolga, in a gravelly or sandy soil, producing 

 its yellow flowers in June, and ripening seeds 

 in August. It was introduced in 1786 

 though, being somewhat difficiilt to propa- 

 gate except by seeds, which, however, in 

 fine seasons, it produces in abundance, it is 

 not so common as it ought to be in British 

 gardens. Grafted standard high on the com- 

 mon laburnum, it forms an object at once 

 singular, picturesque, and beautiful, whether 

 when covered with blossoms, or with its fine 

 reddish pods. Price, in the London nurse- 

 ries, 2^. 6f/. each, and standard high, 7*. GiL 



Genus XVI. 



-1 



t'OLUTEA R. Br. The Colutea, or Bladder Senxa. Lin. Si/st. 

 Diadelphia Decandria. 



Identification. R. Br. in Hort. Kew., ed. 2., vol. 4, p. 325. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 270. ; Don's Mill, 2. 



p. 244. 

 Derivation. From koloiid, to amputate. The shrubs are said to die if the branches are lopped off. 



Kuloutea is also the name of a plant mentioned by Theophrastus. 



Description, ^'c. Shrubs, with impari-pinnate leaves, and flowers disposed 

 in axillary racemes that are shorter than the leaves; few in a raceme. {Dec. 

 Prod., ii. p. 270.) The flowers are yellow in most of the species, and are 

 succeeded by bladdery legumes. Deciduous shrubs, and natives of the middle 

 and south of Europe, the north of Africa, and Nepal. All that have hitherto 

 been introduced into Europe are probably only varieties of one species. 



34 I. C. arbore'scens i»i. The arborescent Colutea, or 5/fflrfrfer &wna. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 1045. ; Dec. Astr,, No. 1. ; Dec Prod., 2. p. 270. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 245. 



Si/nonytnes. C. hirsTita Roth. Fl. Germ., 1. p. 305. 



Engravings. N. Du Ham., 1. t 22. ; Curt. Bot. Mag., t. 81. ; and our fig. 317. 



Spec. Char., 4'c. Leaflets elliptical, retuse. Peduncles bearing about 6 yellow 

 flowers. Callosities of the standard short. Legumes closed. Wild in 

 hedges and thickets in southern and middle Europe. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 270) 



