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shrub. Archipelago, Georgia, and the 



Levant. Height 4 ft. to 8 ft. Introd. 



1731. Flowers reddish copper-coloured ; 



June and July. Legume reddish ; ripe 



in August. 



Resembles C. arbor^scens, but of smaller 

 dimensions, and with leaflets more glaucous, 

 and more retuse. 



^ 3. C. (a.) me'dia WiUd. The interme- 

 diate Colutea, or Bladder Senna. 



Ideniification.WiWA.'Ermxtt., 



771.; Dec. Prod.,2.p.270.; 



Don's Blill, 2. p. 245. 

 Engravings. Wats. Dend. 



}irit., t. 140.; and our^e. 



402. 



Spec. Char., S^c. Leaf- 

 lets obcordate,glau- 

 cescent. Peduncles 

 usually 6-flowered. 

 Legumes closed at 

 the apex. Flowers 

 orange-coloured. 

 {Don's Mill.) 



A shrub ratherlarger than C. (a.) cruenta, and diifering 

 I from it chiefly in having orange-coloured flowers. Per- 

 I iiaps, a hybrid between the two preceding sorts. 402. c. (a.) msdia. 



The Aleppo Colutea, or Bladder Senna. 



Identification. Lara. Diet, 1. p. 353. ; III., t. G24. f. 2. ; Dec. 



Astr., No. 2. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 24.5. 

 Synonymes. C. Poc6ck Ait. Hort. Kew. 3. p. 55 , Schmidt 



Aril. t. 129. ; C. istria Mill. Diet. No. 2. t. 100. j C. procum- 



bens L'Herit. Siirp. Nov. 2. t. 42. 

 Engravitigs. Schmidt Arb., t. 120. ; and our fig. 403. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaflets roundishly elliptical, 

 very obtuse, mucronate. Peduncles bearing 

 3 yellow flowers. Callosities of the standard 

 lengthened, ascending. Legumes closed. Smaller 

 than C. arborescens. {Dec. Prod.) A low 

 shrub. Fields about Aleppo. Height 3 ft. to 

 6ft, Litroduced in 1752. Flowers yellow; 

 May to October. Legume reddish ; ripe Oct. 

 Closely resembling C. arborescens, of which it 



appears to be a variety, but rather more tender 



in British gardens. 



Coltitea (a.) cruenta. 



C. (a.) hale'ppica Lam. 



C. (a.) haMppica 



404. C. nepalensis. 



^ 3. C. nkpale'nsis Hook. The Nepal Colutea, or Bladder Senna. 



ientification. Hook. Bot. Mag., 2622. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 245. 

 'Sravings. Hook. Bot. Mag., t 2622. ; and our fig. 404. 



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