XXV. LEGUMINA CE^ : U LEX. 



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Gen. Char. Calyj; bilabiate ; lower lip trifid, upper lip 2-lobed ; segments 



soon falling off. Petals deciduous. Vexi/him large, obcordate, ruft&cent. 



JVingn cuneated. JCeel cucullate, accumbent. Stamens 10 , free, deciiluous. 



Stigma minute. Legume broad-linear, compressed, 6-seeded, stipitate. 



(Don's Mill.) 



Leaves compound, ti'ifoliate, stipulate, sub-evergreen ; leaflets elliptical- 

 oblong, acute, broad. Flowers large, yellow. One species only in British 



gardens. 



a * 1, P. nepale'nsis Swt. The Nepal Piptantlius. 



Identification. Swt. Fl.-Gard., 261. ; Dec. Prod. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 112. 



Sytionyvies. Therm6psis Mburnifolia i). Don Prod. Fl. Kep. p. 2.39. ; .^nagyris Indica WaU. MSS.\ 



BapKsia nepalrnsis flook. Exot. Fl. t. 131. 

 Engravings. Hook. Exot. Fl., t. 131. ; Swt. Fl.-Gard., t. 264.; and our ^gs. 297. and 298. 



Spec. Char,, S^c. Leaves trifoliolate ; leaflets elliptical-oblong, acute, broad. 

 Stipules 2, large. A sub-evergreen shrub. Nepal. Height 8 ft. to 10 ft. 

 Introduced in 1821. Flowers rich yellow ; May and Jime. Pod green, 

 turning to brown ; ripe in October. Decaying leaves yellow and green. Naked 

 young wood dark green. 



The young leaves are silky ; and the flowers are of a bright yellow, and are 

 much larger than those of the common laburnum, to which they, and also the 

 leaves and the shoots, bear a general 

 resemblance. In British gardens it 

 may be considered as rather tender, 

 and not of many years' duration ; 

 nevertheless, in fine seasons, it ripens 

 abundance of seeds. It may be pro- 

 pagated by cuttings of the roots, and 

 of the shoots, as well as b}' seeds or 

 layers. In most of the counties north 

 of London, the safest situation for it 

 will be against a wall ; and it well de- 

 serves a place there, on account of 

 its luxuriant deep green foliage, and large bright yellow flowers, .^nagyris 

 indica Wall., Mr. Gordon considers as differing a little from the species. 



S97. P. nepafensis. 



298. P. nepalensis, nat. size. 



Sect. II. Loi^TEM. 

 Genus IV. 



?7^LEX L. The Furze. Lin. Syst. Monade'lphia Dec&ndria. 



^S^^Z^T- A ^"- *l^-' V,- ,^*^- ' ^^'"- "'' t- 621 ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 144. ; Don's Mill., 2. p.148. 

 ^nonymes. Ajonc, Fr. ; Hecksaame, Ger. ' f . . f 



uerwation. Said to be derived from ac, Celtic, a point ; in reference to the prickly branches. 

 Gen. Char. Calyx bibracteate, bipartite, one of the lips 3-toothed, the other 



bidentate. Stamens all connected. Legume oval-oblong, turgid, many- 



ovulate, but few-seeded, hardly longer than the calyx. 

 Leaves simple, linear, caducous, often changing into spines. Flowers 



solitary, yellow. ' 



^ Branchy spinous shrubs, evergreen from the colour of the bark, with yellow 

 : nowers. natives of Europe, which will grow in any tolerably good soil that is 

 I ary ; and are readily propagated by seeds, or by cuttings planted in sand. 

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