XXV. LEGUMINA X CE^E : ADENOCA'RPUS. 



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GENUS VIII. 



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ADENOCA'RPUS Dec. THE ADENOCARPUS. Lin. Syst. Monadelphia 



Decandria. 



Identification. Dec. Fl. Fr. Supp., 549. ; Lg. M<hn., 6. ; Prod., 2. p. 158. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 157. 

 Derivation. From aden, a gland, and karpos, fruit ; in reference to the legumes being beset with 

 pedicellate glands. 



Gen. Char. Calyx obconical, usually beset with glands, bilabiate ; upper lip bi- 

 partite, lower one longer and trifid. Carina obtuse, enclosing the stamens and 

 pistils. Stamens monadelphous. Legume oblong, compressed. (Don's Mill.) 

 Leaves compound, trifoliolate, alternate, stipulate, deciduous. Flowers 

 yellow in all the species. Shrubs, straggling, of short duration, somewhat 

 evergreen from the colour of their young shoots ; natives chiefly of Europe. 



Branches divergent; leaves trifoliolate, with petiolar stipules, and folded 

 leaflets, and usually grouped ; flowers upon bracteolate pedicels, and disposed 

 in terminal racemes. Culture as in (Tytisus, from which 

 genus most of the species have been separated. 



j* 1. A. HISPA'NICUS Dec. The Spanish Adenocarpus. 



Identification. Dec. Fl. Fr. Suppl., 549. ; Leg. Mem., 6. ; Prod., 2. 



p. 158. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 158. 

 Synonymes. C^tisus hispanicus Lam. Diet. 2. p. 248. ; C. anagf rius 



L'Herit. Stirp. 184.. N. Du flam. 5. p. 149. 

 Engraving. Our ^.368. 



Spec. Char., 8?c. Calyx glandulose and villose ; lower 

 lip with three equal segments, that are barely longer 

 than the upper lip. Branchlets hairy. Flowers 

 grouped. Standard rather glabrous. (Dec. Prod.) A 

 hairy shrub. Spain and Portugal, in shady and moist 

 places. Height 2ft. to 4ft. Introduced in 1816. 

 Flowers yellow ; June and July. Legume dark brown, 

 or black ; ripe in October. 3- A. hi sp 4nicus. 



& 2. A. BOISSIERE/ Webb. Boissier's Aden>carpus. 



Identification. Webb's Iter Hisp., p. 52. ; Otia Hispan., p. 4. 



Synonymes. A. dec6rticans Boiss. Not. sur F Abies Pinsapo, p. 9. ; Raca vieja, Span. 



Engravings. Otia Hispanica, t. 4. ; and our fig. 369. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Arborescent. Bark scaly. Branches purplish, ash-coloured, 

 clothed with soft hairy pubescence, and with numerous leaves. Petioles 

 elongate, terete. Leaves with ad- 

 pressed pubescence. Leaflets linear, 

 with revolute margins, somewhat ob- 

 tuse. Calyx villous, the lower lip 

 somewhat longer than the upper. 

 Vexillum pubescent at the apex and 

 middle. Legumes elongate, obtuse, 

 whitish, with purple glands. Seed 

 greenish black. ( Webb, Otia Hispan.) 

 A larg'j deciduous shrub. Spain, in 

 warm valleys of the mountains of 

 Granada, 4500ft. to 5000ft. above 

 the sea. Height 15 ft. to 20 ft. In- 

 troduced ?. Flowers reddish yellow, 

 fragrant; June and July. Legume 

 whitish, covered with numerous pur- 

 ple glands j ripe in August. 



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369. Adenocftrpiu BoUsten. 



