DEGANDRIA. MOXOGYNIA. 2S1 



bous at the base on the upper side, margin 5-toothed, 

 obtuse. Flowers white, ratiier large; vexillum resupinate, 

 reflected, the claw rigid, limb rounded and obcordate; 

 wings oblong, horizontal; carina of 2 petals cohering; 

 above, each with a single denture near the base and sub- 

 ulately terminated above as in Oxytvopis. Filaments dia- 

 delphous, 9 and 1, but divided down nearly to the 

 base. Germ cylindric and villous; style short rising 

 erect, subcapita'te. Legume not seen, — but the striking 

 affinity of this plant to 'the well preserved specimens of 

 ^S". alopeciiracles in tiie Eanksian herbarium justifies its 

 admission into this genus. I am also obliged, however 

 unwillingly, to state, after seeing the specimen so mark- 

 ed by the author himself, in the herbarium of A. B. Lam- 

 bert, esq. tliat this is Astragalus carnosus! of Mr. Purs'), 

 Flnr. x\m. 2. p. 740. Supplement; he liaving by mistake, 

 applied the description of the fruit of an Astragalus which 

 I had published to this species of Sopliora. 



A small and widely dispersed but scarcely natural ge- 

 n-us, of whicli there are 2 very splendid and aborescent 

 species in New Zealand, which now form the genus Ed- 

 •wardsiay 1 in tropical America? 2 in India, 1 in the Isle of 

 P'rance, 1 in the Levant, greatly resembling that wlficii 

 we have described, 1 in Siberia, and i in Japan. 



400. BAPTISFA. VeutemU. E. Brown. Poda- 

 lYRiA. Michaux, Lamark, JVlUikno'w, (Wild 

 Indigo.) 



Calix half 4 or 5-clcft, bilabiate. Corolla pa- 

 piJionaceous, petals riearjy equal in length; re:ir- 

 illam iaterally reflected, ^lamina deciduous. 

 Legume vcntricosc, pedicellate, njanv-seedcd.^ — 

 Bkow.v. Hort. Kew. 3. ]). 5. 



Plerbaceous perennials; leaves ternate, stipulate; fiov/- 

 ers in terminal rarely lateral spikes or racemes, in son.e 

 species soiitary and axillary; \\\ B. perfjliata, the leaves are 

 obicular and perfoliate. 



Species. l.B.perfoUuta. 2. v.niforn. 3. viUosc:. Oes. 

 Legume oblong, obtuse, subcylindric; allied to aioa. 4. 

 alba. 5. c<erulea. 6. mcVis. Leaves conspicuously petio- 

 late. This is the lowest species v/ith w))ich 1 am ac- 

 quainted, and possesses the aspect of an herbaceous 

 Psoralea. Stem purplish, somev.-hat decumbent, pubes- 

 cent; leaves often 2 inches Inng and 1 wide, minutely 

 pubescerit en both sides; common ped'^xic C-lofun inch 

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