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LEGUMINACEA. 6'OLL T! U 



GENUS XV. 



635 



CALO'PHACA Fisch. THE CALOPHACA. Lin. Syst. DiadeUphia Decandria. 



fitcntification. Fisch. ined. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 270. 



Derivation. From knlus, beautiful, and p/iake, a lentil ; in allusion to the beauty of the plant, and to 

 its being one of the leguminaceous kind. 



Description, <$c. 

 native of Siberia. 



There is only one species, which is. a deciduous shrub, a 



tt 1. C. WOLGA'RICA Fisch. The Wolga Calophaca. 



Identification. Fisch. in Litt ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 270. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 244. 



Synonyincs. (Xt^u-; nigricans Pall. Kin., 3. p. 7(54. t. G. g. f. 3., cd. Gall. Append., No. 358. t. 101. f. 1. ; 



Cytisus piniiiitus Fall. Fl. lioss., 1. t 47. ; Cytisus wolgarirus Lin. Fil. Suupl. , 327., N. Du Ham., 1. 



t 48. ; ColiUea wolgarica Lam. ; Adenocarpus wolgensis Spreng. Syst., 3. p. 226. 

 /^ravings. Pall. Itin., 3. p. ^64. t. G. g. f. 3., ed. Gall., Append., No. 358., t. 101. f. 1., as Cytisus 



nigricans; Pall. Fl. lloss.,4. t. 47., as Cytisus pinn&tus ; N. Du Ham., 5. t. 4S., as Cy"tisus wol- 



g&ricus ; and our fig. 316. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaflets 6 or 7 pairs, or- 

 bicular, velvety beneath, as well as the 

 calyxes. (Don's Mill., ii. p. 244.) 



Description, $-c. A deciduous shrub, found 

 in desert places near the rivers Don and 

 Wolga, in a gravelly or sandy soil, producing 

 its yellow flowers in June, and ripening seeds 

 in August. It was introduced in 1786 

 though, being somewhat difficult to propa- 

 gate except by seeds, which, however, in 

 fine seasons, it produces in abundance, it is 

 not so common as it ought to be in British 

 gardens. Grafted standard high on the com- 

 mon laburnum, it forms an object at once 

 singular, picturesque, and beautiful, whether 

 when covered with blossoms, or with its fine 

 reddish pods. Price, in the London nurse- 

 ries, 2s. Qd. each, and standard high, 7*. 6d. 



GENUS XVI. 



31 G 



COLITTEA R. Br. THE COLUTEA, or BLADDER SENNA. Lin. 

 Diadelphia Decandria. 



Identification. 11. Br. in Hort. Kew., ed. 2., vol. 4., p. 325. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 270. ; Don's Mill., . 



Derivation. From kolouo, to amputate. The shrubs are said to die if the branches are lopped off 

 is also the name of a plant mentioned by Theophrastus. 



l)c.scrij)tion, $c. Shrubs, with impari-pinnate leaves, and flowers disposed 

 in axillary racemes that are shorter than the leaves ; few in a raceme. (Dec. 

 Prod., ii. p. 270.) The flowers are yellow in most of the species, and are 

 succeeded by bladdery legumes. Deciduous shrubs, and natives of the middle 

 and south of Europe, the north of Africa, and Nepal. All that have hitherto 

 been introduced into Europe are probably only varieties of one species. 



a 1.6'. ARBORE'SCENS Lin. The arborescent Colutea, or Bladder Senna. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 1045. ; Dec. Astr., No. 1. ; Dec. Prod., 2. p. 270. ; Don's Mill , 2. p. 245 



Siftioni/iHfs. ('. hirsi'itu Roth. Fl. Germ., 1. p. 305. 



iig>-ai'tns. N. Du Ham., 1. 1 22. ; Curt. Bot Mag., t. 81. ; and our Jig. 317. 



S/tec. Char., $c. Leaflets elliptical, retuse. Peduncles bearing about 6 yellow 

 flowers. Callosities of the standard short. Legumes closed. Wild in 

 hedges and thickets in southern and middle Europe. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 270) 



