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these plants, has been by potting them, and placing the pots 

 under a common frame in winter, where they enjoyed the 

 free air in mild weather, but were protected from frost; they 

 have been kept in this way for three years, but never ripened 

 seed in our climate. 



5. Galega Villosa. Legumes back-sickled, villose, pen- 

 dulous, racemed, lateral ; leaflets smooth lanceolate, thirteen 

 to seventeen, blunt, with a point, streaked at an acute angle, 

 the lower ones shorter and obovate ; stem round. Native of 

 the East Indies. This, with the following species from the 

 East and West Indies, may be propagated by seeds sown on 

 a hot-bed in the spring : when the plants are strong enough, 

 transplant each of them into a separate small pot, and plunge 

 them into a hot-bed of tanners' bark, shading them until they 

 have *aken new root ; then treat them as other tender plants, 

 preserving them through the winter in the bark-stove. If 

 they are brought forward early in the spring, and the summer 

 proves warm, the seeds may ripen in England : they will 

 flower in July, and ripen their seeds in September. 



6. Galega Spinosa. Legumes solitary, back-Bickled.com- 

 iressed ; stipules spinescent ; leaflets wedge-shaped, hoary; 

 stem diffused ; peduncles axillary, solitavy, short, one-flow- 

 ered; flowers upright, small. Found in. Coromandel, by 

 Kcenig. 



7. Galega Maxima. Legumes stiff, ascending, smooth; 

 stipules lanceolate ; leaflets oblong, smooth, streaked. This 

 is the largest plant of the genus. Stem angular, smooth, 

 changing situation variously between the joints ; calices 

 smooth. Native of Ceylon. 



8. Galega Grandiflora; Rose-coloured Galega. Legumes 

 spreading; stipules ovate-lanceolate ; leaflets oblong, almost 

 naked, awned; stem shrubby, round, branched, having very 

 minute hairs scattered over it; leaves unequally pinnate; 

 peduncles terminating, erect, elongated ; flowers at the top, 

 opposite, approximating, nodding ; bractes ovate-oblong, 

 acute, purplish, deciduous; calix tomentose, silky; corolla 

 purple ; banner smooth above. Native of the Cape. 



9. Galega Palleus ; Pale-coloured Galetja. Legumes stiff, 

 spreading, ciliate ; stipules awl-shaped ; leaflets nine to 

 eleven in number, oblong, sharp, pubescent underneath. It 

 flowers in July. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 



10. Galega Piscatoria; Woolly Galega. Legumes stiff, 

 ascending, subvillose; stipules awl-shaped; leaflets eleven 

 to thirteen in number, oblong, blunt, somewhat hairy under- 

 neath; peduncles ancipital. It flowers in June and July. 

 Native of India, and the South Sea islands. 



1 1 . Galega Purpurea ; Purple Galega. Legumes stiff, as- 

 cending, smooth, racemed, terminating; stipules awl-shaped ; 

 leaflets oblong, smooth. The stem is less angular and 

 straighter than that of the seventh species, and reddish ; the 

 flowers narrower than the leaves ; bractes ovate ; flowers with 

 capillary peduncles. Mr. Miller says, that this plant was 

 annual here; that it had an herbaceous stalk two feet high; 

 that the leaves had eight or nine pairs of leaflets ; that the 

 peduncles came out opposite to these ; and that the flowers 

 were small, purple, in a loose spike, and succeeded by slender 

 erect pods. It flowered in July and August. The seeds 

 were received from Ceylon, and many other parts of the 

 East Indies. 



12. Galega Caribbaea. Legumes stiff, smooth, pendulous, 

 racemed ; leaflets smooth, mucronate ; stem shrubby. This 

 is an upright, branched, slender shrub, two feet high ; sti- 

 pules bristle-shaped, entire ; racemes axillary, loose, simple, 

 stiffly spreading, solitary, longer than the leaves, six-flowered, 

 or thereabouts ; flowers inodorous, red and white variegated ; 

 seeds black, shining. -Native of the Caribbee islands. 



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13. Galega Coerulea. Racemes terminating, many-flowered, 

 contracted; leaflets eight to ten pairs, elliptic, blunt; stein 

 scabrous ; branches ferruginous, tubercled with black dots, 

 on the top of the stem, tomentose ; stipules awl-shaped ; 

 racemes upright; flowers numerous, heaped, blue. Found 

 in South America, by Mutis. 



14. Galega Tinctoria. Spikes lateral, peduncled ; legumes 

 stiff, pendulous. This is a very handsome plant; the stems 

 naked, flexuose, smooth, angular; leaflets eleven, emarginate, 

 oblong, blunt, smooth above, silky underneath, hairy, streak- 

 ed, the lower ones shorter ; peduncles from each axil naked, 

 spiked at the end, the length of the leaves, smooth; calices 

 subvillose. It is from this plant that the inhabitants of Cey- 

 lon prepare their indigo, which yields a dye of a pale blue 

 colour. Native of Ceylon. 



15. Galega Senticosa. Legumes in pairs, lateral, smooth ; 

 leaflets emarginate, silky underneath ; stem shrubby. This 

 is a woody shrub, with a roundish stem and a brown bark; 

 leaflets usually nine, obovate, streaked. Native of Ceylon. 



16. Galega Pulchella. Legumes straight, villose, pendulous, 

 racemed ; stipules awl-shaped ; standard above, and leaves 

 underneath, villose; root annual, or biennial ; stem reddish- 

 brown, somewhat villose, at a small distance from the root, 

 producing branches which subdivide into others; branchlets 

 streaked, somewhat angular, villose, and sometimes so co- 

 pious that they seem to weigh down the whole plant. Native 

 of the Cape of Good Hope. 



17. Galega Frutescens. Leaflets ovate; flowers panicled, 

 axillary ; stem shrubby. Discovered at Campeachy. 



18. Galega Tomentosa. Legumes stiff, ascending, villose, 

 racemed, opposite to the leaves; pedicels in threes; leaflets 

 silky underneath ; stipules awl-shaped; stem villose- tomen- 

 tose, angular; flowers remote, on villose pedicels. Native 

 place uncertain. 



19. Galega Toxicaria ; Poisoning Galega. Spikes terminat- 

 ing, peduncled; legumes cylindric, pedicelled, spreading; 

 stem and leaflets hoary-tomentose. This is a spreading 

 shrubby plant, rising generally to the height of five or six 

 feet: the leaves and branches, well pounded, and thrown 

 into a river or pond, very soon affects the water, and intoxi- 

 cates the fish, so as to make them float on the water as if 

 dead ; most of the larger fish recover after a short time, but 

 the greater part of the small fry perish on these occasions. 

 It ia a native of South America, from whence it has been 

 introduced into Jamaica, and cultivated there on account of 

 its intoxicating qualities. 



Galenia ; a genus of the class Octandria, order Digynia.- - 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth very small, four- 

 cleft, concave; divisions oblong. Corolla: none. Stamina: 

 filamenta eight, capillary, scarcely the length of the calix; 

 antherae twin. Pistil: germen roundish; styles two, simple, 

 reflex; stigmas simple. Pericarp: capsule roundish, two- 

 celled. Seeds : two, oblong, angular. ES&ENTIAX CHA- 

 RACTER. Calix: four-cleft. Corolla: none. Capsule: 

 roundish, two-seeded. The species are, 



1. Galenia Africana; Upright or Skrubhrj Galenia. Erect, 

 shrubby: leaves linear, fleshy; stem four or five feet high, 

 sending out many weak branches ; flowers in loose panicles 

 from the sides and at the ends of the branches, very small, 

 greenish-white, and making little appearance. It flowers 

 from June to August, and is a natire of the Cape of Good 

 Hope. Neither this nor the next species can endure the 

 rigours of an English winter in the open air, but must be 

 placed in the green-house, or under a frame, with other hardy 

 exotic plants, where they may have a large 'share of air in 

 mild weather, for they only require to be protected from the 

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